Post #2914577
2024-12-17 12:52 UTC
@wdlindsy@toad.social That's an important lesson for today. Messianic figures get created by elites. Only elites can consistently say "Oh, look at this guy, isn't that interesting?" and influence others, even when they themselves don't find this guy adequate. That's the same between Trump and Hitler, too, I think: Real elites, the high society, sneer at them as dumb low lives. But even they focus their attention on such figures. And maybe that is even an involuntary effect. Even Dem elites focused Trump.
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@wdlindsy@toad.social 2024-12-17 12:55
@Kraemer_HB@mastodon.social I agree, an important lesson for today. As Dorothy Thompson repeatedly reminded her readers in 1937, it can happen again — and can happen anywhere. And it happens because of the active complicity of social elites. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/nazi-town-usa-dorothy-thompson-most-famous-female-journalist/