I wonder if Hasbara accounts are pressing this narrative?
skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I suspect the world would be safer if everyone just let Trump think he won.
davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I suspect the world would be safer if everyone just let Trump think he won.
I wonder if Hasbara accounts are pressing this narrative?
x00z@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s impossible. “Make America Great Again” is a slogan that he can only abuse as long as there are problems. If he wants to stay in power it’s in his best interest to create problems. It’s what fascists dictators have been doing since forever. Even if there are no problems they will point towards something and make you think it is a problem, so they can market themselves as the solution.
noughtnaut@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That is depressingly insightful. See also: the internal war on everyone who isn’t a middle-aged white cis het man (and even some of them, too). Just negativity all around.
What really brings me down it’s the certainty that even if that is guy was suddenly not there anymore, there is a whole gaggle of like folk ready to continue that same rhetoric. How do you even dig yourselves out of that?
x00z@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes. Separating the people is an extremely strong tool in the authoritarian handbook. It is such a strong tool that the things it accomplishes are too much to list here. There are a lot of books on the matter. I think it’s even explained in some of the CIA books.
This is not completely correct. People fighting back against their oppressors sends an extremely strong message. And it even goes both way. For example, the attack on the USA Capitol of January 6th gave these Magazis a lot of power because they saw unity in their oppression.
The good thing is that there’s always more good people than bad.