Thread by @sillymickel

*Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

(available on website now & 2b published Sept 2022)

Quotes/Highlights THREAD from Chapter 25, titled,

“An Attack on Facts & Reality Itself:"

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CW22Q 25/1

Chapter 25:

“An Attack on Facts & Reality Itself:

“Confused People Take Comfort in Stupidity, & Burdened People Become Confused People—That’s Their Plan”

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CW22Q 25/2

[Quotes/highlights:] “It’s just natural that if you don’t hear anything to counter something, you’re going to believe that the only thing being said is the truth. & that certainly has increased over time … through the years.” []

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CW22Q 25/3

[] “The amount of actual truth that is being left out of the narrative of our country has increased dramatically. All the media networks are spouting the Big Lies, the Republican talking points.” []

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CW22Q 25/4

“What I observed is that the great majority of pundits weren’t any help in clarifying things for people….”

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CW22Q 25/5

[] “Americans are surrounded by the organized disciplined ongoing assault against them by the Republicans. They are filled up with talking points benefiting the wealthy comprising simplistic simple-minded irrational mantra...nonsensical,” []

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CW22Q 25/6

[] “…repetitive, simple slogans.

“The result is Democrats don’t end up having a lot of power….” []

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CW22Q 25/7

[] “…people just felt more comfortable around somebody who kept things simple, who said simple words, & seemed angry like they were.” []

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CW22Q 25/8

[] “Because Reagan, like other Republicans, was able to confuse people into thinking that any screwing up, of any time, must have been done by Democrats.” []

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CW22Q 25/9

[] “[Republicans] will tell you your poverty now is caused by Democratic policies of the past which actually got us out of depressions, recessions, & created surpluses.” []

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CW22Q 25/10

[] “[Republicans] will tell you your lousy health care now is caused by money going to the Medicare that you like.” []

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CW22Q 25/11

[] “[Republicans] will tell you that the financial squeeze you feel is because of the “penny” going to a poor person not the bundles of loot they are taking.” []

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CW22Q 25/12

[] “…the electorate is swimming in these simple irrational things that have been made to sound reasonable. & they are unable to see through them because they have been kept in this situation of increasing pressure to produce,” []

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CW22Q 25/13

[] “…produce, produce; of less leisure time & no time to think; of worries, medical care, all kinds of things you have to put out money for. Folks can hardly see through the swindle….” []

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CW22Q 25/14

[] “That ignorance on the Right is the result of factoids, “obvious truths,” replacing reason in burdened & confused minds. So how could these people possibly, without being able to see clearly, how could folks like this ever be united…” []

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CW22Q 25/15

[] “[how could folks like this ever be united…] against the *real* injustices against them...which they don’t even realize are happening...their minds filled with the fake stuff?” []

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CW22Q 25/16

[]“People do not even know who the perpetrators are, for the pundits won’t tell them. Folks cannot figure it out for themselves; & the pundits absolutely refuse to point out who’s responsible for the things that add misery to their lives.”[]

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CW22Q 25/17

[] “…equal time turned into something where, no matter what lie is put out there or would be put out, no matter what truth is put out there, the media will find somebody, they could find anybody, who would be willing to say a lie…”[]

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CW22Q 25/18

[] “[they could find anybody, who would be willing to say a lie…] & sound reasonable for the purpose of confusing things.

“With all this, how can anybody know what the truth is?” []

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CW22Q 25/19

[] “…the rearguard has gotten fiercer, as expected. How that is manifesting in the Trump & beyond years is an astonishing doubling down on inanities & untruths.” []

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CW22Q 25/20

[] “More “obvious truths” have been set in American’s minds, making them unable to see over them to the truth. To them have been added this incredible 1984-ish assault on facts & reason itself. Indeed, on reality itself.” []

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CW22Q 25/21

[] “We hear of “fake news” broadcast loudly by the very entities pouring them out. How does one’s mind respond when knowing that “fake news” spouted by them is actually … uh, fake news?” []

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CW22Q 25/22

[] “The mind boggles with the knowledge that so many people are unable to see through the Republican falsehoods, misrepresentations, totally made up “facts”….” []

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CW22Q 25/23

[] “This prophesied battle at the end of this era will come about when the great liar, the great deceiver, has managed to become dominant on Earth. It will arise when the Big Lie prevails, & truth & goodness are vilified.” []

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CW22Q 25/24

[] “It will come about in a time like now, when reality & sanity have become whole-cloth concoctions, horrible nightmarish imaginings, bloody fantasies rivaling some kind of violent video game. Yet we cannot exit this game.” []

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CW22Q 25/25

[] “How can one not consider that Ultimate Battle is not the one in which we are currently caught up?! We have The Great Deceiver, Trump, along with Putin, threatening not only our democracies but the life of all living things on Earth,” []

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CW22Q 25/26

[] “…out of pure Ego & greed. Which is pure Evil. We have the final battle of Middle Earth, with Putin as our Saruman in Mordor, & Trump our Sauron the Mad, in M.E. South.” []

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CW22Q 25/27

[] “We hear “fake news,” “witch hunt,” “alternative facts,” “stolen election,” “treason,” & “coup” broadcast & hammered into our minds by the very monster engaged in them. It is the most clever psychological ploy.” []

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CW22Q 25/28

[] “Keep your opponent constantly off balance with wild accusations,.." []

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CW22Q 25/29

[] “…have a media owned by you who will repeat [the accusations] endlessly, requiring that the entities charged, those innocent others & scapegoats, must constantly respond to the agenda of the guilty party.” []

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CW22Q 25/30

[]“It keeps the guilty party out of the limelight & the world distracted as they pile up thr abominable crimes, murders, corruptions, threats, brutalities, thieving,& oppression…seeking always the utter humiliation of the American people.”[]

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CW22Q 25/31

[] “Republican tactics mirror those of crafty street thieves….”

“…being on the defensive allows you no move to seek justice for the perpetrator. They get away with their crimes.” []

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CW22Q 25/32

[] “I have seen such strong arm/ conning tactics being used by corporations, phone scammers, online entities…folks posing as Social Security to take your money, for example.…” []

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CW22Q 25/33

[] “All this, now, because lawlessness is rampant on the level of any part of government or society touched by Trump or his goons.” []

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CW22Q 25/34

[]“Do you see how such folks, MAGAts, Trump, Republicans, are able to get the much greater intelligence of opponents used against them. Like rope-a-dope.

“So, attack, accusation, drama, confusion, distraction...&

“ESCAPE

“for criminals.”[]

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CW22Q 25/35

[] “…this Republican tactic is so outrageous because it is the strategy of outright war. In war, there is no attempt to tell truth, to find agreement.” []

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CW22Q 25/36

[] “[In war, there is no attempt to tell truth, to find agreement.] There is only intent to apply maximum *punishment* upon your opponent. To keep them distracted while you invade, & plunder.” []

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CW22Q 25/37

[] “…that is what the GOP has become today. It is a party at war with America, just out to see us hurt.” []

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CW22Q 25/38

[] “& if you don’t think that [pummeling of American institutions & lives] fits too neatly with what a particular global adversary would want of the U.S., as a punishment for the breakup of the Soviet Union,..” []

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CW22Q 25/39

[] “…to bring down the U.S. similarly, to break us up in a civil war or the seceding of states from the Union, just like happened with the USSR,

“then you’ve yet to see behind the screen.” []

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CW22Q 25/40

[] “Blinded by the danger their actions pose even to themselves, these Filthy Rich Controllers would gobble up all they can, letting others suffer, using their unbridled wealth to orchestrate governments, courts,..” []

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CW22Q 25/41

[] “…judges to investigate the innocent, indict the true patriots like Reality Winner, & murder, unrestrainedly, any & all opponents who might threaten their egos or wealth.” []

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CW22Q 25/42

[] “Even in front of the entire world, just like the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, these behind-the-scenes players, manage events of all kinds using any means necessary … lies, murder, & we see now with Putin, war. The war on the Ukraine.” []

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CW22Q 25/43

[] “Yet W. Bush & his cronies also used war as the distraction from their thievery.

“The reason. It is to set up the governments of the world as profit-making enterprises for the benefit of the Filthy Rich.” []

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CW22Q 25/44

[] “It is to set up a dystopian society for the rest of us, pouring out the products of our working hands, using the money earned for the bread & circuses they distract us with, paying our bills,..” []

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CW22Q 25/45

[] “…suffering under debt, worrying about whether our children will be murdered in their school classrooms, & much more of the oppressive lives they have concocted for us, while they, the Filthy Rich

… golf.” []

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CW22Q 25/46

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