I want to remind you, the readers, that I have studied and practiced psychology and social psychology for going on 50 years. I’ve served as a professor of undergraduate and graduate studies at universities to include University of Vermont, University of Minnesota-Morris, Mississippi State, Bucknell and WPI. I have studied Nazi Germany, collective behavior and the art of manipulation.
If you think it is histrionic or silly to equate what is happening in our country to Nazi, Germany then you had better think again. For example, it is one thing to arrest protesters for trespassing but it is another to assault an aged professor, break his hand and ribs and dump him on the ground in anger. That IS the stuff of fascist violence.
The next level of fascism is to attack intellectuals, deny their rights to free speech and free press. Read Mark Taylor’s Substack from last night:
Pay attention, you are about to be made a criminal
By Mark Taylor
DeMOCKracy.ink (5/2/24)
The House just overwhelmingly passed a fascist bill — that if passed into law — will not only muzzle your speech but smother truth and subject you to criminal charges. The thuggish fascism of Zionist Israel is taking root here. The crackdowns, rooftop snipers, beatings, arrests. Brown Shirt attacks and expulsion from universities are just the beginning.
Stand up, folks, or be prepared to live on your knees.
CHRIS HEDGES WAS JUST INFORMED HE CAN NO LONGER POST AND ALL OF HIS SHOWS HAVE BEEN DELETED:
We are being lied to, stolen from (a 320 million dollar pier?), manipulated and now …
You MUST understand that violence is being normalized. Strategically and purposefully violence is being normalized, YOU are being desensitized to violence. The campus beatings, censoring the most intelligent, beating the highly educated, bit-by-bit destroying your free speech and right to protest (cancelling TikTok).
Mark my words, within a month people in YOUR city will be arrested and beaten. You will stand back in fear. Immobilized. You will have to make a decision. Do you fight the upcoming fascist state or do you sit quietly in your living room? Mark my words, within a month you will see the first assassinations take place. You will be desensitized to the horror of it all and, once again, you will have decisions to make.
Do we fall into the silent complicity like the German population did in the 1930’s when gay people, Romani, intellectuals and Jews were cordoned off, placed into camps and then murdered? Or, do we fight back NOW before things get worse?
I have grown tired of the pleas to vote for Joe because Trump is worse. Both of these so called humans are murderous greedy manipulators. We ARE watching as tens of thousands of Gazan’s are murdered. These murders will come home to roost soon. America is no longer a safe haven protected from the realities of the world.
We MUST find a true leader and vote for THEM. We have been led to believe we only have two choices. Both choices will lead to our demise as a nation. Violence will be what we live with … and cope with … and will never recover from.
We are in it now. We live in a fascist country. Whether you like it or not.