So now they're talking about "protecting" their Dear Leader from indictment.
This just gets more and more incredible by the day. First our election system, now the rule of law.
America has never seen anything like this.
This is New Age Fascism.
Y'know, the thing is, there are obviously parallels to Europe of 85 years ago on a societal, political and cultural level. But I'm beginning to think that there are other elements that the world simply hasn't seen before. Back then most of the behaviors were driven by a fear of saying the wrong thing. In this case, it's literally a reality to them. They really do believe all this stuff.
It's been said that Facebook is the greatest propaganda tool the world has ever known, and that is absolutely true. Now factor in the myriad other sources of alternative reality that Trumpists tune in to for what passes as news in their reality, and you start to understand why it's different than it was 85 years ago, and inherently far more dangerous. It's worth noting, however, even after the devastation and ruin the Fuhrer left behind, many Germans remained committed to him and his movement after Germany's capitulation. There are similarities.
Yep. What makes today more dangerous is that back then, the eyes of the people were opened almost immediately, when the war was over. There was no denying what had happened and those who were largely responsible.
That won't happen today, the fog isn't going to quickly lift, because (a) these people still have the same complicit media screaming the same fantasies at them 24/7/365, and (b) they now exist in a completely insulated, self-sustaining, closed circuit informational universe.
This is a real fuckin' problem, it's unprecedented, and it's not going away any time soon.