Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art.
Thomas Jefferson
The slaver churches made flattery an American art with the blasphemous perversion of the Bible into propaganda for White Supremacy. The ultra-fearful White Patriarchal Male Supremacists have been praising each other to the skies while demonizing the rest of us ever since, from the Lost Cause of the Civil War to Qanon.
But they are now losing. You can help.
The indivisible Truth Brigade has a new campaign focused on the deadly price of propaganda in actual lives. Think about it. Maybe you can come over to twitter to like and retweet our work. You can also learn how propaganda works, and how to combat it and save some of its victims. You don’t have to join the Brigade to help.
In particular, millions of the children of Wrong-Wingers embrace the truth that they encounter in schools, the media, the Web, and real life every year, and throw off the old fears, rages, and hatreds. This is the center of their elders’ main hatred for Soshulist Librul Commie woke Demonrat “groomers”. This is CRT, sex education, history, science, LGBTQ rights, abortion, contraception, intermarriage, healthcare, and ending poverty and systemic racism.
The specifics of Republican propaganda don’t matter any more than the details of Ministry of Truth propaganda in 1984. It is all about bogus moral panics, epitomized in the Two-Minute Hates in the novel.
The actual fear is based on a fact: Whites are inexorably becoming a minority in the US. White Supremacists already are. But the fearful live entirely in revenge fantasies that go back to fears of slave rebellions. They are certain that the rest of us will do unto them as they have done to so many for so long, when all we want is the best of everything available for everyone.
Meanwhile the rest of us are increasingly focused on real issues in the fact-based world, like abortion rights, gun safety, Global Warming, and Republican criminality, and what we can do about that in the November elections and the next Congress.
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