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SupportSanity

(1,089 posts)
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 12:14 PM Saturday

TRUST. This will be a commonly used word in a couple of months. Might as well bring it up now.

Fascist / Authoritarian dictators will remove all trust. It certainly benefits them.

Trust what you hear from the government? News, market prices, inflation, the economy, government popularity, the weather, global warming?

Trust family? MAGA has already split many families. Just wait until they come into power.

Trust friends? Lifelong friends, acquaintances, party members? How will you know who to trust? It used to be easy. That will be gone.

There will also be rewards to "rat" on people. Dr Timothy Snyder gives examples in his books. Well worth reading anything by him.

Religion - if you're different, your life could be made miserable.

Skin color - this is very difficult. Trust the white man? But even worse, there are plenty non-whites who voted for Trump.

Once they start running the show, trust will be very difficult... maybe impossible.

Thought I'd bring it up now because this will be coming up.

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