Totalitarianism.
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." Orwell
"“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" Robespierre
Thursday, May 20, 2010
It Goes On And On
Here's another of countless examples of the right wing adopting totalitarianism even as they claim to hate it. Only recently I've mentioned the big lie and extralegal removal of citizenship. Dumbing down of education, in order to achieve a malleable, fact-averse electorate, is a common theme here. Texas is the most obvious example. Now it's demanding the promulgation of a hard-right political point of view. State-sponsored propaganda.
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