Billionaires Stealing Our Country

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Christians have been warning us about the antichrist for 2000 years. And when he finally shows up, they vote for him. MAGA Motto: Lie & cheat first. Double down on the lies & cheating. Deny accusations. Play the victim. Blame Democrats & Biden.

With that in mind, I I want to note that before I use what is not a precedent, I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler's Third Reich to any other movement. It was uniquely evil. Full stop. I get it. But there are important lessons from the history of that emergent evil. And here is one that I regard as essential.

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a small group of philosophers who had escaped Hitler's murderous regime returned to Germany and performed a kind of moral autopsy on the Third Reich.

The most famous of the so-called Frankfurt school of philosophers was a man named Jurgen Habermas, best known I would say, but it was Habermas's mentor, Theodore Adorno, who wrote that the first step in that nation's descent into hell was, and I quote, the conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power. He described how the Nazis, and I quote again, attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false. End quote.

The Trump administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality. They say Ukraine attacked Russia instead of the other way around and expect us to believe it. At home, they attack heroes who have defended our nation in war and against cyber attacks as traitors.

Why is America being broken?

Steve Bannon follows this idea of the Breitbart doctrine:

To fundamentally change society, you first have to break it. And it's only when you break it is when you can remold the pieces into your vision of a new society.

Chris Wylie from the Netflix documentary “The Great Hack” about Cambridge Analytica (Steve Bannon was the Vice President of C.A.)

Picture of a ferris wheel.
New Ferris Wheel in Washington, DC. See the the Capitol and all the historical museums, and traffic.

Note: Careful. There are a lot of no-bid, who's your buddy contracts floating around DC lately. Ride at your own risk.

This is from the movie "Idiocracy". The writer/director Mike Judge saw all of this coming and he turned into what is now a cult movie classic.

Latka Gravas getting married to Simka. Both dressed in their county's native clothing for the occasion. Andy Kaufman, the comedian, played Latka Gravas on the hit series "Taxi". Occasionally he would if excited start speaking in his native language which sounds surprisingly like what you are hearing from Paula White-Cain. Maybe she got the language from "Latka".