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In reply to the discussion: That old Cassandra feeling is back again. [View all]Attilatheblond
(4,814 posts)It's an exhausting trait, isn't it?
The fascists count on people having short attention spans and little interest in following anything that doesn't immediately affect their current situation. Makes them very easy to manipulate with well honed narratives.
One of the worst practitioner of if you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em was Newt Gingrich, a wholly self-serving creature whose oversized and infantile ego set the downfall of objective conservatism into high velocity motion. And he still pops up as he fights to remain relevant. The powers that by used him up and tossed him aside, as they do all their tools and patsies. Other current pols should have noticed they are just tools to be used for a time. But they all have rather grandiose views of their own importance and can't see the trash man coming for them when the new shiny chap comes along.
Pathetic fools leading low info fools astray. The biggest weakness for out democracy is human nature in the lesser evolved, more self centered, humans; they are so easy to manipulate into doing the dirty work for the real powers.