Over and over again history shows that the Right is animated by paranoid fears of conspiracies that allow them to enact widespread oppression, surveillance, and violence in order to protect their power and increase their wealth.
It’s the only consistent mindset.
It’s the only consistent mindset.
Honestly, it’s staggering. I knew in researching the new book I’d find the Right infected with conspiratorial thinking, but it’s throughout the centuries. Consistent, uninterrupted paranoia that legitimizes oppression. Instance after instance after instance.
The point is this: the paranoid, conspiratorial ramblings we’re dealing with are not novel. They’re ever present. And when they heat up like we’re seeing, especially when the Right recognizes it’s losing control, it inspires massive oppression and violence.
If allowed, the Right will dismantle democracy, flood education with propaganda, use violence as oppression, and establish widespread persecution and surveillance as a means of maintaining control. This isn’t conjecture, it’s the track of history.
Honestly, every day that I research the situation we’re in becomes clearer and more perilous. There’s a rhyme here, a predictable, terrifying pattern. We have to start recognizing it.
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