We've been conditioned to accept absolute corruption in government as well. "Why shouldn't the people who donated to his campaign be pardoned?" asked unironically.
The incessant constant stream of mainstream media covering these things without criticizing them = normalized.
The incessant constant stream of mainstream media covering these things without criticizing them = normalized.
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Michael Hobbes
Exactly, years of reactionary centrist hand-wringing have trained the population to see a textbook authoritarian crackdown as merely an overreaction to a legitimate threat.
"Sure, foreign students are being disappeared. But weren't they rabid antisemites and aspiring totalitarians?"
"Sure, foreign students are being disappeared. But weren't they rabid antisemites and aspiring totalitarians?"
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