If you read Timothy Snyder's book The Road to Unfreedom you will see that the lying is a conscious premeditated strategy, coupled with other specific strategies, to confuse and manipulate people and disassociate them from reality so that they rely on loyalty instead of reason. It's a deeply disturbing and important book and explains the phenomenon of schizo fascism being promulgated by Putin.
If you read Timothy Snyder's book The Road to Unfreedom you will see that the lying is a conscious premeditated strategy, coupled with other specific strategies, to confuse and manipulate people and disassociate them from reality so that they rely on loyalty instead of reason. It's a deeply disturbing and important book and explains the phenomenon of schizo fascism being promulgated by Putin.
I think Trumps lies because it's a lifelong stately, and he was born rich enough to get away with it. Republicans dusted off Joe McCarthy's strategy with Nixon and Reagan, it worked so well they now back Trump. Relying on loyalty instead of reason qualifies the modern GOP as a cult, but while some cult leaders by believe the tripe they peddle, others are deliberate manipulators. The latter built fascism.
“EAT LESS KITTENS,” the billboards say. “Vote Republican!”
Arizona’s Republican Party announced Tuesday that it had designed about a dozen of the billboards in the Phoenix area in response to false claims shared by some top Republicans that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating Americans’ pets. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who plans to visit Arizona on Thursday, amplified those claims at an ABC News debate on Tuesday, despite police telling local news outlets that there was no evidence of anyone eating pets. " https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/arizona-gop-billboards-implore-voters-to-eat-less-kittens/ar-AA1qqe4d
This crap has real, breathing victims, and could get someone killed. Thats fine with the "GOP".
And it's time for Democrats to reach out to the Haitian community as real, breathing people, and ask (rhetorically) if at long last, Republicans have NO decency. Maybe make a billboard of it.
I also read this in Prof. Ruth Ben Ghiat, another historian who is an expert on fascism's book Strongmen. I read the European version. It was written during Trump's term in office and he is included in as a fascist. I think I was not fully cognizant of everything he was doing, but this book helped me to understand his techniques, which I saw on display in the debate, even to intelligent, reasonable people he seemed off his game. What he did that fits fascist strategies, which has nothing to do with debating and everything to do with getting his message out there, is he repeated some ideas which are cues to his audience. He repeated that immigrants are overrunning the country and doing scary things--which is a consistent theme, he repeated that abortion is happening after babies are born--which is a consistent theme, and he repeated that crime is up--which is a consistent theme, and he repeated that she was militarily weak--which is a consistent theme, and he repeated that there are transgendered surgeries happening in schools--which is a consistent theme. If people can believe the lies and specious claims of Q-Anon, they will believe anything he tells them. Remember a caravan of trucks went to the border to stop the millions coming over illegally and saw absolutely no one, and ended up picking a fight with locals. I just think as a fascist, he repeats tropes, a playbook that Goebbels and Hitler used because no matter what is said, people start believing things if they hear them often enough. A lot of his audience is primed to believe him too.
If you read Timothy Snyder's book The Road to Unfreedom you will see that the lying is a conscious premeditated strategy, coupled with other specific strategies, to confuse and manipulate people and disassociate them from reality so that they rely on loyalty instead of reason. It's a deeply disturbing and important book and explains the phenomenon of schizo fascism being promulgated by Putin.
I think Trumps lies because it's a lifelong stately, and he was born rich enough to get away with it. Republicans dusted off Joe McCarthy's strategy with Nixon and Reagan, it worked so well they now back Trump. Relying on loyalty instead of reason qualifies the modern GOP as a cult, but while some cult leaders by believe the tripe they peddle, others are deliberate manipulators. The latter built fascism.
“EAT LESS KITTENS,” the billboards say. “Vote Republican!”
Arizona’s Republican Party announced Tuesday that it had designed about a dozen of the billboards in the Phoenix area in response to false claims shared by some top Republicans that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating Americans’ pets. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who plans to visit Arizona on Thursday, amplified those claims at an ABC News debate on Tuesday, despite police telling local news outlets that there was no evidence of anyone eating pets. " https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/arizona-gop-billboards-implore-voters-to-eat-less-kittens/ar-AA1qqe4d
This crap has real, breathing victims, and could get someone killed. Thats fine with the "GOP".
And it's time for Democrats to reach out to the Haitian community as real, breathing people, and ask (rhetorically) if at long last, Republicans have NO decency. Maybe make a billboard of it.
I also read this in Prof. Ruth Ben Ghiat, another historian who is an expert on fascism's book Strongmen. I read the European version. It was written during Trump's term in office and he is included in as a fascist. I think I was not fully cognizant of everything he was doing, but this book helped me to understand his techniques, which I saw on display in the debate, even to intelligent, reasonable people he seemed off his game. What he did that fits fascist strategies, which has nothing to do with debating and everything to do with getting his message out there, is he repeated some ideas which are cues to his audience. He repeated that immigrants are overrunning the country and doing scary things--which is a consistent theme, he repeated that abortion is happening after babies are born--which is a consistent theme, and he repeated that crime is up--which is a consistent theme, and he repeated that she was militarily weak--which is a consistent theme, and he repeated that there are transgendered surgeries happening in schools--which is a consistent theme. If people can believe the lies and specious claims of Q-Anon, they will believe anything he tells them. Remember a caravan of trucks went to the border to stop the millions coming over illegally and saw absolutely no one, and ended up picking a fight with locals. I just think as a fascist, he repeats tropes, a playbook that Goebbels and Hitler used because no matter what is said, people start believing things if they hear them often enough. A lot of his audience is primed to believe him too.