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[–] 474D@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The recipe has been in play for over a decade, probably more. People can't stand up if they have nothing to stand on. Everyone is struggling. What the fuck is fascism if you have to concentrate on just surviving. That's the whole play. They give us just enough to get by so we can live with no time to think. It's not denial, it's an orchestrated structure. The system isn't flawed, it's working as intended

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Add to that several decades of constant far right propaganda disguised as news, and a massive rightward shift of the Overton Window, and you end up with brainwashed citizens willing to cheer this shit on.

Add to that the systematic dismantling of our public education system to ensure that people don't have the historical and political context to understand the implications of any of it.

They (The Heritage Foundation and their ilk, I guess) really learned a lot of lessons from the Third Reich... This is the culmination of decades of work for these people, and it is working as designed for the most part.

It's a very difficult trap to escape from. If not impossible.