Trial Runs for FASCISM being done NOW!

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Fintan O’Toole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow

Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism

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US president Donald Trump: his claim that immigrants “infest” the US is test-marketing of whether his fans are ready for the next step-up in language towards “vermin”. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo











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To grasp what is going on in the world right now, we need to reflect on two things. One is that we are in a phase of trial runs. The other is that what is being trialled is fascism – a word that should be used carefully but not shirked when it is so clearly on the horizon. Forget “post-fascist” – what we are living with is pre-fascism.
It is easy to dismiss Donald Trump as an ignoramus, not least because he is. But he has an acute understanding of one thing: test marketing. He created himself in the gossip pages of the New York tabloids, where celebrity is manufactured by planting outrageous stories that you can later confirm or deny depending on how they go down. And he recreated himself in reality TV where the storylines can be adjusted according to the ratings. Put something out there, pull it back, adjust, go again.
Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate. This is what is happening now and we would be fools not to see it.

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[Hoosier8]

Oh my, the TDS is raging. So when Obama put kids in cages what was that?

[Common Sense]

The OP is pretty hyperbolic.

It also assumes a level of sophistication that probably doesn't exist with this president.

[Peter1469]

Fascism is right of communism. Not anything else.

[Common Sense]

Fascism is right of communism. Not anything else.

It is to the right of communism....aaaaaalllll the way to the right. At least on the linear right left spectrum.

[stjames1_53]

so, Canadian, where are our ovens and cattle cars?

[Common Sense]

so, Canadian, where are our ovens and cattle cars?

I've already stated that the OP is hyperbole. I'm not one for conspiracy theories. Particularly ones supposedly orchestrated by incompetents.

[Peter1469]

It is to the right of communism....aaaaaalllll the way to the right. At least on the linear right left spectrum.

When the fascists advocate personal liberty and freedom PM me, so I can join up.

They are hard left. Very hard left. Total control.

"Everything within the State. Nothing outside of the State. Nothing against the State." Your friend Benito.

[Common Sense]

When the fascists advocate personal liberty and freedom PM me, so I can join up.

They are hard left. Very hard left. Total control.

"Everything within the State. Nothing outside of the State. Nothing against the State." Your friend Benito.

So you think the political compass is innacurate?

I'm willing to concede that there is an ugly side to the left and it's manifested in totalitarian communism. The ugly side of the right is totalitarian fascism. Those are just facts....regardless of fictional spectrums.

I find it bizarre that you try to assign anything negative to the left and everything good to the right.

[Mister D]

Common Sense;2384582]The OP is pretty hyperbolic.

The OP is loony. Not hyperbolic.

Here is a link to a thesaurus. You need it.

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/hyperbole