by Jim Quinn, The Burning Platform:
It seems like the political atmosphere is becoming more insane by the day. The despotism of the current Administration wreaks havoc on civil liberties and human rights. The landscape of discourse seems further divided, with each side of the false left versus right paradigm stuck in their own reality devoid of reason.
The public is exhausted and overwhelmed, purposefully inundated with an information overload of unspeakable horrors committed by the rich and powerful against the most vulnerable of the population.
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As we discussed last week, this is done with a purpose to be deliberately psychologically debilitating to induce apathy and acquiescence.
Understandably, for many people, when the current regime falls from power they’ll breathe a deep sigh of relief and say “phew, glad that’s over.” Yearning for a false sense of normalcy that comes with the embrace of the politics of yesteryear, the smugness of “defeating fascism in the United States”, and a complacency that things are “finally back to the way they were”.
Yet this is all an illusion. And a particularly dangerous one at that.
It is an illusion that threatens to undermine the most basic understanding of how we got here in the first place.
The illusion fails to recognize that the totalitarianism of Trump and his sycophants did not occur in a vacuum, but rather as the inevitable outcome of unchecked power and creeping authoritarianism for more than a century over.
Americanized fascism did not simply rear its ugly head in 2015.
Let us not forget as far back as February 20th, 1939, Nazi rallies were held in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
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