PUTNEY-What's to come?
Fascist movements require a constant din of vitriol, paranoia, and a long list of enemies to justify extreme measures, which include dehumanization and eventually violence.
Stephen Miller will round people up and put them in cages and camps.
Elon Musk has promised economic hardship for the majority of the American people who will come under his thumb.
Steve Bannon has promised to dismantle the government and replace knowledgeable people with ideological drones. This is an old Republican strategy. Put incompetent and even hostile people in important positions and watch government fail. Then government failure becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The Murdoch family and other billionaire-funded fascist media will push the propaganda of fear and hate and continue to distort reality to its gullible audience.
JD Vance will impose his regressive and authoritarian moral standards on man and beast.
Conformity is what MAGA is all about.
When MAGA describes other human beings as "vermin," "low IQ," or "poisoning the blood of our country," it becomes apparent that language is integral to their sense of belonging and it requires them to believe these projections as reality. Will their sense of inferiority and victimization be overcome by dehumanizing others?
Eventually, fascists run out of destructive impulses, but by then, the society has usually failed.
Steve Belczak
Putney
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