strategy is simple yet effective

the best way to control a populace is through fear and discord.

We’re being fed a constant diet of fear: fear of a virus, fear of the unmasked, fear of terrorists, fear of illegal immigrants, fear of people who are too religious, fear of people who are not religious enough, fear of extremists, fear of the government, fear of those who fear the government. The list goes on and on.

A populace that stops thinking for themselves is a populace that is easily led, easily manipulated, and easily controlled.

The following are a few of the necessary ingredients for a fascist state:

· The government is managed by a powerful leader (even if he or she assumes office by way of the electoral process). This is the fascistic leadership principle (or father figure).

· The government assumes it is not restrained in its power. This is authoritarianism, which eventually evolves into totalitarianism.

· The government ostensibly operates under a capitalist system while being undergirded by an immense bureaucracy.

· The government through its politicians emits powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.

· The government has an obsession with national security while constantly invoking terrifying internal and external enemies.

· The government establishes a domestic and invasive surveillance system and develops a paramilitary force that is not answerable to the citizenry.

· The government and its various agencies (federal, state, and local) develop an obsession with crime and punishment. This is overcriminalization.

· The government becomes increasingly centralized while aligning closely with corporate powers to control all aspects of the country’s social, economic, military, and governmental structures.

· The government uses militarism as a center point of its economic and taxing structure.

· The government is increasingly imperialistic in order to maintain the military-industrial corporate forces.

The parallels to modern America are impossible to ignore.