Mac1958
Diamond Member
The "isms" are nothing but tools and labels. They can be used and manipulated anyway one wants to use and manipulate them. Binary partisan assholes are only able to see a definition that feeds their biases.
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People are far more easily controlled when made afraid, paranoid, angry. The easiest way to do that is to use simple, hyperbolic terms like "extreme", "fascism", "tyranny", "evil", "war", on and on.
Then those people will not only be afraid, paranoid and angry, but then they'll spread those words and spread the paranoia. That increases and intensifies the tribalism, the binary thought patterns.
History is replete with bold, pugilistic leaders who could identify and leverage this anger and paranoia (with the help of willing enablers) for their own good, and it takes a country down the wrong road.
For a while.
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