• thallamabond@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Isn’t that fascism 101 though?

        Tony Morrison’s first three of ten steps to fascism

        1.Construct an internal enemy, as both focus and diversion.

        2.Isolate and demonize that enemy by unleashing and protecting the utterance of overt and coded name-calling and verbal abuse. Employ ad hominem attacks as legitimate charges against that enemy.

        3.Enlist and create sources and distributors of information who are willing to reinforce the demonizing process because it is profitable, because it grants power and because it works.