(04-04-2018, 10:28 AM)David Horn Wrote: When fact gets a lot more bizarre than fiction, even the most conservative predictions cease to be reliable. For something right up pbrower's ally, Amy Siskind has compiled an ongoing list of changes, subtle and not so subtle, since Trump made his ascendancy. It's been published as "The List", and is not finished by any means. She's given numerous interviews on the content and her conclusions: that we are running a real risk of Fascism or something similar in this country. Not coincidentally, Madeline Albright has been seeing similar tendencies.
As a predictor, the list is a total unknown. As a horror story, not so much.
Things are strange. Anyone who says "Well, at least Trump is a conservative" misses that he is simply a right-wing demagogue.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.