General Discussion

And it’s not a recent phenomenon. For decades and decades now, the rightwing propaganda apparatus has hammered away at one main theme: “They are taking your country away from you!”

That’s their literal words.

And it’s at the corrupt heart of all their messaging: This country belongs to a select few. Everyone else is a danger, a poison, an existential threat. THEY deserve no rights, nothing but destruction by any means. Because THEY are not Real Americans.

How can anything but fascism emerge from such a twisted philosophy?