Yeah, I believe he mentioned that play in this book. In Road to Unfreedom book he also mentions how LGBT basically took place of Jews. It tries to frame itself as it is for traditional Christian values, in reality it is just fascism that tries to use religion. Fascism needs an enemy, and this one is easy to attack.
I highly recommend On Freedom book but Timothy Snyder, it basically talks how the wealth is being stolen from us and now with help of modern technology like social media.
It is disinformation warfare. We can argue this and that should be done, but it is unlikely it would make much difference. Many people who voted for trump had believed Harris positions that were opposite from reality. People get their news from social media which is easily manipulated.
Ironically social media are no longer social, they are full of bots and AI generated content that is used to manipulate our views.
I doubt it. We are continue to underestimate information warfare. Look at Romania. A guy sympathetic to Russia who no one heard about few months ago won the first round.
The same techniques were used this election and previous one in US and Europe and we still ignoring it.
The manipulation is affecting others as well. You want to see how well it works, look how pro Russia candidate in Romania who no one knew won first round, and might win the next one.
This quote needs a context. The same issue was mentioned in "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the 20th Century" by Prof. Snyder. It is a very appropriate read for today's times, and I think everyone should read it. It also is a relatively short book.
The tyrannts were able to change government and consolidate power, because people were apathetic and just accepted it (for example "this doesn't affect me").
Remember that Germany was a democracy when it turned into Nazism. Same thing can happen in US if we let it.
I see this blame of various groups, of Harris of Democrats often one contradicting the other, but almost no one is acknowledging that we are in the middle of information warfare. We saw is effects in invasion of crimes in 2014, in brexit in 2016, trump election of the same year, across elections in Europe and still very little is done about it.
When some people were asked about why they voted for trump their answers were bizarre, out of touch with reality.
Today majority of people gets the news from social media which unlike traditional MSM is much more prone to be manipulated by foreign powers. Russia especially matters it, add their active measures developed during cold war work really well with current Internet.
I doubt people who are illegally would have a good credit line, and would imagine people who would hire them would not vote for this, although a lot of people are dumb. Saw an interview with a person who was here illegally and supported trump, he did not vote as despite the GQP rhethoric they can't vote, but there are also Spanish people that can vote, have families that would be affected and still voted for him.
What they are promising cannot be done without skipping courts. Without courts even people that are here completely legally might end up being deported.
The reason we don't have a single payer healthcare is because certain party blocks it. If we did, it would actually save us tons of money.