Thread by @sillymickel

Ch 25, “An Attack on Facts & Reality Itself:

“Confused People Take Comfort in Stupidity,

"& Burdened People Become Confused People—That’s Thr Plan””

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

Fr *Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

(pub 10/22)

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CW22Q 25/1

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022:

*Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(available on website, as well as a free pdf file, & on Amazon in print & ebook, as of Oct 2022)

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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

[] “all these words can’t be remembered, they can’t take root in their mind after the lies they’re always hearing from the other side.” []

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CW22Q 25/6

[] “Americans are surrounded by the organized disciplined ongoing assault against them by the Republicans.” []

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CW22Q 25/7

[] “[Americans] are filled up with talking points benefiting the wealthy, comprising simplistic simple-minded irrational mantra...nonsensical, repetitive, simple slogans.” []

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CW22Q 25/8

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

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CW22Q 25/9

[] “I heard Reagan’s appealing to the worst in people countered by reason, by sensible explanations & realistic proposals of a Dukakis, a Carter, & a Mondale. & then at the end it was...it didn’t mean a damn thing.” []

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CW22Q 25/10

[] “Because 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 25/11

[] “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 25/12

[] “[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 25/13

[] “[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 25/14

[] “[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 25/15

[] “…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, produce,..” []

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CW22Q 25/16

[] “…[the electorate has been kept under increasing pressure to] 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 25/17

[] “Who has the time to think clearly or reason confronted by all this other uncertainty, this other insanity? So we have all these pressures & then there’s these slogans put out & people are not able to follow rational arguments.” []

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CW22Q 25/18

[] “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,..” []

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CW22Q 25/19

[] “…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 25/20

[] “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 25/21

[]“…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 25/22

[] “…[the media will find somebody, 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 25/23

[] “…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 25/24

[] “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 25/25

[] “With the MAGA devolution of American politics & civility, there has been no bar too low for Republican inanity & perversion of reality through words.” []

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CW22Q 25/26

[] “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 25/27

[] “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 25/28

[] “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 25/29

[]“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 25/30

[] “In such end times, the ultimate battle between Truth & Lies, between Goodness & Evil, between Life & Death, Eros & Thanatos, will be fought.” []

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CW22Q 25/31

[] “It is said it will be the last struggle prior to the rising up of a new age or era wherein that conflict is resolved in a way that brings the entire world back into the fold of Goodness, the Divine...Eros.” []

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CW22Q 25/32

[] “How can one not consider that Ultimate Battle is not the one in which we are currently caught up?!” []

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CW22Q 25/33

[] “We have The Great Deceiver, Trump, along with Putin, threatening not only our democracies but the life of all living things on Earth, out of pure Ego & greed. Which is pure Evil.” []

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CW22Q 25/34

[] “We have the final battle of Middle Earth, with Putin as our Sauron in Mordor, & Trump our Saruman the Mad, in ‘Middle Earth’ South. The Ukrainians, currently, are referring to the Russian invaders into their country as *orcs*.” []

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CW22Q 25/35

[] “Orcs are the mindless abominations of living things, monsters, which are set against all that is good in Tolkein’s trilogy of the rings. Yes, we’ve come to that.” []

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CW22Q 25/36

[] “…we hear ‘fake news,’ ‘witch hunt,’ ‘alternative facts,’ ‘stolen election,’ ‘treason,’ & ‘coup’ broadcast & hammered into our minds by the very monster engaged in them.” []

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CW22Q 25/37

[] “It is the most clever psychological ploy. Keep your opponent constantly off balance with wild accusations,..” []

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CW22Q 25/38

[] “…have a media owned by you who will repeat [the wild 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 25/39

]“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 25/40

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

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CW22Q 25/41

[] “…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 25/42

[] “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 25/43

[] “All this [criminality in American society], 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 25/44

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

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CW22Q 25/45

[] “[Like rope-a-dope.]

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

“ESCAPE

“for criminals.” []

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CW22Q 25/46

[] “…this Republican tactic [of accusing your opponent of that which you are outright doing] 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 25/47

[] [In war, like in Republican tactics, 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 25/48

[] “…that is what the GOP has become today. It is a party at war with America, just out to see us hurt. & if you don’t think that fits too neatly with what a particular global adversary would want of the U.S.,..” []

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CW22Q 25/49

[]“…as a punishment for the breakup of the Soviet Union, to bring down the US 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 25/50

[] “Though in their idiocy [Republicans, the Right, & the Filthy Rich are] bringing themselves down as well. That’s like the guy shooting another guy in a boat that puts a hole in the boat & both drown.” []

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CW22Q 25/51

[] “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 25/52

[] “[using the Filthy Rich's unbridled wealth to orchestrate] judges to investigate the innocent, indict the true patriots like Reality Winner; & to murder, unrestrainedly, any & all opponents who might threaten their egos or wealth.” []

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CW22Q 25/53

[] “Regarding murder, these days that’s being called being *Epsteined*. That relates to the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in his cell a day after being visited by then Attorney General, Bill Barr.” []

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CW22Q 25/54

[] “[Being *Epsteined*] relates, also, to the fact that Ivana Trump, the Donald’s ex-wife, died “accidentally”...was *Epsteined*...a day before her non-disclosure agreement (her NDA) was to expire…” []

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CW22Q 25/55

[] “& [Being *Epsteined*] relates, also, to the fact that Ivana Trump, the Donald’s ex-wife, died “accidentally”] prior to her planned appearance before a government investigation into Trump’s criminality.” []

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CW22Q 25/56

[] “It is clear Epstein, just as Trump’s ex-wife Ivana, had enough info to bring down many of these political criminals & pedophiles.” []

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CW22Q 25/57

[] “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 [like Ivana’s murder], & we see now with Putin, war.” []

… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur…

CW22Q 25/58

[] “[these behind-the-scenes players manage events of all kinds using any means necessary...lies, murder, like Ivana’s murder, & war.] The war on the Ukraine. Yet W. Bush & his cronies also used war as the distraction from their thievery.” []

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CW22Q 25/59

[] “All this 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 25/60

]“[This murderous criminality by wealthy] is to set up a dystopian society for the rest of us, pouring out the products of our working hands,using the money dearly earned for the bread & circuses they distract us with, for paying our bills;”[

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CW22Q 25/61

[] “meanwhile 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 25/62

]“[The Filthy Rich] are attempting a full-on takeover of the world’s minds. Their dystopian aims could not be any plainer. & the lack of pushback to these existential threats to everything good that exists could not be any more frustrating.”[

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CW22Q 25/63

These have been quotes/highlights from Chapter 25 of my new book,

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

which is

“A Cultural & Political Psychohistory of America from the 1950s to 2022”

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CW22Q 25/64

... enjoy this threaded version of the highlighted quotes of Chapter 25,

or click a link & enjoy the entire book--completely available at this time--with my compliments, posted on my blog.

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CW22Q 25/65

The entire book is available online at the links

& you can download a free copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* there.

Feel free to download it, pass it around, use it to help a Democratic Blue Wave in Nov., as you wish,

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CW22Q 25/66

This is the completed document for *Culture War, Class War 2022*; it is extensively illustrated.

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It is a pdf file & looks exactly as the book looks.

Download as many copies as you wish; use it to help a Democratic Blue Wave in Nov.

CW22Q 25/67

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

was written as a primer on history & current events, as a lead up to the very important Midterm elections of November 2022.

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CW22Q 25/68

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CW22Q 25/69

If, instead of the free copies, you wish to purchase the book—ebook or paperback—these are links to use:

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CW22Q 25/70

Feel free to download copies of *Culture War, Class War 2022*, pass it around, use it to help a Democratic Blue Wave in Nov., as you wish,

in preparation for the existentially important Midterm elections

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CW22Q 25/71

Democrats need to WIN BIG in November

or it is all over for democracy in America & the world

& for the life on this planet.

You can use your copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* to get word out to whoever or to whatever outlet you know.

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CW22Q 25/72

I guarantee you. If Democrats don't win MASSIVELY the Ukraine war will not be limited there but we will be fighting Putin here, in a civil war, when the party that's working for him, Republicans, get power.

You choose. I suggest, get active.

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CW22Q 25/73

& please send any comments/reviews of the book to me at

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or dm it to me.

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CW22Q 25/74

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