That is their plan for the next four years if not beyond.
Trump isn’t just a victim of voter fraud, his 74 million voters are also victims.
You are a victim of governments and Democrats taking away your voice.
You are not a victim of COVID-19, you are victim of Democrats and government overreach who closed your stores and bars and restaurants and businesses.
Black and brown people are ruining your neighborhood, taking your job, and will rape your wife and children.
Not populism. Grievance politics — on steroids. Based on lies and manufactured outrage.
Because it works. Because not only do Trump and Republicans repeatedly tell lies, they also present themselves as saviors, white knights who will slay the abusers and end the victimizing.
It is all a scam.
Illusory Truth Effect
By now, most of us are all too familiar with the phrase “fake news.” The internet is a breeding ground for false rumors, conspiracy theories, and outright lies, and none of us are immune. According to a study published in the journal Science, on average, false stories reach 1,500 people six times faster than true stories do.4,5 They’re also 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than real stories. Our media ecosystem is so awash in falsehoods, it’s inevitable that all of us will encounter fake news at some point—and in fact, we probably do so on a very regular basis. This alone puts us at risk of the illusory truth effect.
The illusory truth effect doesn’t just affect us by accident, either: Propagandists understand that repetition is key to getting people to accept your message, even if they don’t believe it at first. Even Adolf Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf that “Slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea.”8 When politicians repeat obvious untruths again, and again, and again, we should not just roll our eyes and write it off as a blunder; we should recognize that this is a deliberate strategy, aiming to familiarize people with the lie being told until they accept that lie as truth.
This all might be sounding a little overly dramatic, but this worry is warranted. Misinformation poses a sinister threat to democracy, and to the functioning of civil society in general. Around the world, fake news has fueled acts of violence; for example, in 2018, rumors spread on WhatsApp sparked a mob killing in India.6 As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the globe, conspiracy theories have driven large crowds of protesters to march in opposition to social distancing and mask regulations.9
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We have seen it before on a smaller scale. It was actually their main push to repeal the ACA. Everyone was a victim of government overreach, making you have coverage you don’t want. A distraction to allow a new bill to be written to enhance profits. Of course this will cost more, but Republicans would have slayed the evil wrongdoer, counting on their followers to be distracted enough to not notice that they were really being victimized by billionaires, not rescued.
Trickle-down, the Contract with America, the Iraq War — all scams to create a state of victimhood and allow the billionaires to profit.
The billionaires really are calling the shots here. Mercers (co-founder of Parler), Adlesons and Koch.
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They have not ordered it to stop. They could. But the GOP donors have decided that Trump is their mini-Hitler, just like the conservative elite of 1930s Germany.
The conservative elite were the old ruling class and new business class in Weimar Germany. Throughout the 1920s they became increasingly frustrated with the Weimar Republic’s continuing economic and political instability, their lack of real power and the rise of communism. They believed that a return to authoritarian rule was the only stable future for Germany which would protect their power and money.
The conservative elite’s second move towards authoritarian rule was helping the Nazi Party to gain power. The conservative elite and the Nazi Party had a common enemy – the political left.As Hitler controlled the masses support for the political right, the conservative elite believed that they could use Hitler and his popular support to ‘democratically’ take power. Once in power, Hitler could destroy the political left. Destroying the political left would help to remove the majority of political opponents to the ring-wing conservative elite.
Once Hitler had removed the left-wing socialist opposition and destroyed the Weimar Republic, the conservative elite thought they would be able to replace Hitler, and appoint a leader of their choice.
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Do not be distracted. The billionaires are supporting this. They are the ones who called Republicans in Congress to get on board with stealing the election.
Mein Kampf:
It is not the aim of our present-day Democracy to form an assemblage of wise men, but rather to collect together a crowd of subservient nonentities who can easily be lead in certain definite directions, especially if the intelligence of each individual of them is limited. Only thus can the game of party politics be played in its unhealthy present-day sense. But it also makes it possible for the real wire-pullers to remain safely in the background, with no possibility of ever being made personally responsible.
A perpetual state of vicitmhood, where the victimizers are projected to be Democrats and government itself, while billionaires are free to roam around raping and pillaging the cult members and all Americans.
And it is a cult. “The Cult of Trump”:
Over the past two years, Trump’s behavior has become both more disturbing and yet increasingly familiar. He relies on phrases like, “fake news,” “build the wall,” and continues to spread the divisive mentality of us-vs.-them. He lies constantly, has no conscience, never admits when he is wrong, and projects all of his shortcomings on to others. He has become more authoritarian, more outrageous, and yet many of his followers remain blindly devoted. Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert and a major Trump supporter, calls him one of the most persuasive people living. His need to squash alternate information and his insistence of constant ego stroking are all characteristics of other famous leaders—cult leaders.
In The Cult of Trump, mind-control and licensed mental health expert Steven Hassan draws parallels between our current president and people like Jim Jones, David Koresh, Ron Hubbard and Sun Myung Moon, arguing that this presidency is in many ways like a destructive cult. He specifically details the ways in which people are influenced through an array of social psychology methods and how they become fiercely loyal and obedient. Hassan was a former “Moonie” himself, and he draws on his forty years of personal and professional experience studying hypnosis and destructive cults, working as a deprogrammer, and a strategic communications interventionist. He emphasizes why it’s crucial that we recognize ways to identify and protect ourselves and our loved ones.
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Cults prey on perceived victimization. That is also how they keep people hooked.
Because other than further rigging elections, it is the only way Republicans can have a chance at winning future elections given the voter demographics are moving against them.
This is all about power — for billionaires and their puppet elected Republicans. It could work.
This is how Trump got 12 million more people to vote for him than did in 2016 — selling the scam of victimhood. Trump is a lifelong con man. He moves from one scam to another pocketing as much as he can for himself. He always plays the victim, but now he has realized the power from projecting this victimhood onto others.
And it is extremely difficult to convince someone that they are not really a victim, or that their savior is really a con man.
I am not sure Democratic messaging is up to the challenge. It seems they are too focused on being outraged at Republican stunts, than addressing and correcting the lies, outing the con men and women, and shining a bright light on the true victimizers.