Biden er status quo kandidaten og det er tingenes umiddelbare tilstand der skaber al den vrede i "masserne" der så nemt kan xploites og kanaliseres over i højre-ekstremisme af en karismatisk leder.
jeg tror Trump bliver præsident igen.
“The truth is that the masses grew out of the fragments of a highly atomized society whose competitive structure and concomitant loneliness of the individual had been held in check only through membership in a class. The chief characteristic of the mass man is not brutality and backwardness, but his isolation and lack of normal social relationships. Coming from the class-ridden society of the nation-state, whose cracks had been cemented with nationalistic sentiment, it is only natural that these masses, in the first helplessness of their new experience, have tended toward an especially violent nationalism, to which mass leaders have yielded against their own instincts and purposes for purely demagogic reasons.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hun beskriver tyskland, rusland++, og den er skrevet i 1951 - men det passer meget godt på samtidens USA.
Der kommer lige 3 quotedrops mere fra Hannah Arendt's "The origins of Totalitarianism"... Jeg læste store bidder af den i 2005-6 og nu har jeg lige bestilt den, den burde være pensum for alle i disse tider.
“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
“One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.”
“True goal of totalitarian propaganda is not persuasion, but organization of the polity. ... What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.”