- b.c.,
an op-ed from the Kos:
Republicans Keep Pushing the Boundaries Into Lawlessness Because That Is Their Endgame
excerpts:
"It is the myth of American Exceptionalism that reassures us that we are fundamentally different than Germany in the 1920’s and 30’s.
But Germany was an advanced nation with a high degree of literacy. It’s citizens were well educated. Hitler didn’t need to win on the battlefield of ideas. He only had to create an opening that he could drive a tank through.
We are no different today. In a way we are more vulnerable because of the outsized role that Fox News and iHeart radio have on millions of Americans.
Science has advanced understanding of crowd control through propaganda to a fine art, something that Goebbels was only inventing at the time. And as we well know, Republicans have become masters of propaganda. Their Think Tanks have been studying it for decades.
Neither are Fox or iHeart central players by happenstance.
This is all part of a long term plan to control public opinion with the endgame of destroying our two party system in favor of an autocratic system of corporate monopolies acting as modern day fiefdoms.
This is what their ideology teaches. It has been their stated goal, to drown our democracy in a bathtub.
It is easy, in the comfort of our sense of American Exceptionalism, to imagine that the Republican storming of the SCIF was simply showboating for their base.
But I see it as part of a larger pattern of pushing the bounds of acceptable behavior, testing how far they can take lawlessness while still retaining control over their base and their jobs.
At the same time it has the effect of normalizing lawlessness, of shifting control from the system over to them.
We saw the stirrings of this when the Bundy’s forced federal agents to back down then stormed the Malheur Reserve, only to be given another reprieve by the courts.
Certainly no one has been given more second chances than Trump.
My concern is will we be prepared when the Night of Long Knives arrives?"
Republicans Keep Pushing the Boundaries Into Lawlessness Because That Is Their Endgame
excerpts:
"It is the myth of American Exceptionalism that reassures us that we are fundamentally different than Germany in the 1920’s and 30’s.
But Germany was an advanced nation with a high degree of literacy. It’s citizens were well educated. Hitler didn’t need to win on the battlefield of ideas. He only had to create an opening that he could drive a tank through.
We are no different today. In a way we are more vulnerable because of the outsized role that Fox News and iHeart radio have on millions of Americans.
Science has advanced understanding of crowd control through propaganda to a fine art, something that Goebbels was only inventing at the time. And as we well know, Republicans have become masters of propaganda. Their Think Tanks have been studying it for decades.
Neither are Fox or iHeart central players by happenstance.
This is all part of a long term plan to control public opinion with the endgame of destroying our two party system in favor of an autocratic system of corporate monopolies acting as modern day fiefdoms.
This is what their ideology teaches. It has been their stated goal, to drown our democracy in a bathtub.
It is easy, in the comfort of our sense of American Exceptionalism, to imagine that the Republican storming of the SCIF was simply showboating for their base.
But I see it as part of a larger pattern of pushing the bounds of acceptable behavior, testing how far they can take lawlessness while still retaining control over their base and their jobs.
At the same time it has the effect of normalizing lawlessness, of shifting control from the system over to them.
We saw the stirrings of this when the Bundy’s forced federal agents to back down then stormed the Malheur Reserve, only to be given another reprieve by the courts.
Certainly no one has been given more second chances than Trump.
My concern is will we be prepared when the Night of Long Knives arrives?"