Many people didn't fail to see this. In fact, many people (academics , activists, independent journalists etc) have warned for a long time that this is where we were heading
Why were only the same old tired voices listened to? Why were actual alternatives given less air time than fascism?
Why were only the same old tired voices listened to? Why were actual alternatives given less air time than fascism?
Reposted from
The New Yorker
Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.
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Honestly it's like watching a vehicular accident marathon non-stop: brains are cooked (but at least it made some people a lot of money? I guess??)
Everything in the 24 campaign screamed it loud and clear.
The reality since confirmed.
It is very strange how hard it can be for some to see the bleeding obvious.
This has to be the starting point for introspection
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8675.12749
Tks for the link Aurélien 👍
In my own research I was surprise by how media savvy De Benoist and his fellows GRECE pals were in the 80s.
Too many Americans did though
Was his VP.