The War For Reality

Thanks to Heaven is an Incubator for retweeting this and bringing such an eloquent, albeit chilling, crystallization of current events to light. My prediction: with all the Reality bending already in place, it will not matter whether trump is reelected (although let's not let that stop us from tossing him out the door); we're going to see an increasing escalation in violence from both sides and within the next ten years the 50 states as we know them will change. I'm not sure what that's going to look like exactly, but I (once again) point to Greg Rucka and Michael Lark's Lazarus or the USIDENT of Richard Kelley's Southland Tales as possible examples. "Oh, but that's just silly. Those are science fiction," you say? Friend, we're already living in Sci Fi land. When someone can stand up and say "Day" when it's clearly "Night" and a large part of the population will believe him despite the empirical evidence of their senses, I say all bets are off.

I've truncated these but you can read the full thread HERE. Also, pardon the sequential reiterations - has to do with how the threads were originally posted.

We must start with Benito Mussolini, who organized the fascistic ideology in the 20th century and defined it as a purposeful rewinding of history and a rejection of liberal democracy and the idea of equality and freedom.

It is MAGA. Pure and simple.

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— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) September 26, 2020

Mussolini's writings on fascism declared that progress was a myth, that men of strength and will could roll back the clock, erase freedom and democracy, and create cults of meaning that were greater than science or evidence.

It was a call to drive us backwards in time.

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— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) September 26, 2020

In the fascist world, a supreme leader owned "truth" and "reality."

Evidence didn't matter. It was about "higher truths" that originated from faith and a believe in the leader's infallibility.

It twisted reality into a religious, supernatural cult of leader worship.

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— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) September 26, 2020

Fascism was particularly attractive to countries that had believed themselves "exceptional" but had suffered humiliating losses.

It saved the concept of nationalist exceptionalism, or being ordained by the universe as special, and "explained" those humiliations.

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— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) September 26, 2020

The disturbing truth is that America is predisposed to fascism because of our myth of American Exceptionalism.

It is a fascistic, white supremacist lie that legitimized slavery, genocide, internment, and so much oppression.

This is what MAGA and Trumpism are about.

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— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) September 26, 2020