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Originally Posted by Pio1980
I was resistant to this terminology for a year, but the parallels are too many and too obvious to ignore. The Right has demonized the "others" and "elites" as the source of all problems, coopted industry, the military, religion as enabling allies, deligitamized objective information channels to propagate distrust in factual information, and used propagandists to control the narrative, white native populism as patriotism.
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Exactly! And very well stated, BTW.
I did momentarily see a flicker of light in a friends eyes when I explained to him that government and military isn't supposed to be there to protect symbols like flags, lapel pins or anthems. They should exist to protect
the people. When the day comes that symbols become more important than our rights, our lives no longer have any value to those in power. At that point, we exist to support the political machine. Not good.