Reading an old Captain America comic book this morning, struck by the villain's speech. [View all]
The villain is a Nazi, Baron Strucker, who is working in the United States to promote the American Bund in the 1930s.
Baron Strucker, like all comic book villains, takes time to detail his plans for subverting America.
He says "We have been most successful when we sow discord by creating crises, then insist that we are the only solution to the chaos that we provoked in the first place. We take a group that is too weak to defend themselves and say that they are strong, that they are the enemy, that they will destroy us unless we destroy them first. Of course, if the enemy is seen as less than human, then killing them is no worse than putting down a rabid animal."
"Americans are sentimental and always root for the underdog. So we must present ourselves as reasonable and our enemies as wishing to tear down civilization."
These are techniques so basic that even the comic books include them. Yet somehow Americans, whose entire history is based on fighting tyranny, have fallen for this game in such numbers that our democratic republic is at stake.
This is the playbook the Republican Party has adopted. This is the wet dream of the tech bros. This is what is written between the lines of their Project 2025 manual.
Even more disturbing, the evil plot of the comic book villain goes on to stage a public assassination of the fascist-leaning political leader in order to stir up his followers to take violent action.
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