The simple-minded strategy of the fascist autocrats in our midst has been to use what our society is disgusted with--racism and Nazism/fascism--to disparage our country, our history, by redefining events, so we will turn away from what keeps us peaceful and free, and toward the autocrats as our salvation. Watching this happen has been so, well, frustrating; that people can be made to march toward the very thing they say they despise, and to celebrate the fall into the pit of hell.
The autocrats we face have no allegiance to the truth, only to their own power. They use words like "racist, fascist, sexist, anti-gay, xenophobe" as slurs, not as facts, all to scare the inattentive. So, they have no problem with the irony.
The quickest way to tell whether or not someone is a fascist is to see if they rush to accuse others of being fascists.
Quicker than that is to ask if misinformation should be controlled.
The simple-minded strategy of the fascist autocrats in our midst has been to use what our society is disgusted with--racism and Nazism/fascism--to disparage our country, our history, by redefining events, so we will turn away from what keeps us peaceful and free, and toward the autocrats as our salvation. Watching this happen has been so, well, frustrating; that people can be made to march toward the very thing they say they despise, and to celebrate the fall into the pit of hell.
The autocrats we face have no allegiance to the truth, only to their own power. They use words like "racist, fascist, sexist, anti-gay, xenophobe" as slurs, not as facts, all to scare the inattentive. So, they have no problem with the irony.