you are spot on. whatever happened to our famous freedoms?
Muslims are today's hippies or Jews or blacks, the convenient target "other" in the ages-old ploy of demagoguery. that this ancient, well-known, simple power-grabbing method even works in our society is a sad testament to the lack of education and consciousness of our people.
but it's true: they only need to attract the sympathy of about 30% of an angry, upset, distracted population, and financial backing from some utterly amoral right-wing oligarch with an agenda, (of which there is no shortage) and they've got themselves a seat at the tables of power.
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Muslims are today's hippies or Jews or blacks, the convenient target "other" in the ages-old ploy of demagoguery. that this ancient, well-known, simple power-grabbing method even works in our society is a sad testament to the lack of education and consciousness of our people.
but it's true: they only need to attract the sympathy of about 30% of an angry, upset, distracted population, and financial backing from some utterly amoral right-wing oligarch with an agenda, (of which there is no shortage) and they've got themselves a seat at the tables of power.