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[quote=Anonymous]I did not really understand this  quote from Hanna Arendt until  recent times:

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist"

I tend to be a pessimist my nature, but I think we are beyond repair. all calls for the NY and the Dem to "expose" Trump and the republicans to save the nation are useless to me. they assume that we have people who are willing to listen, look at facts and judge with their own mind. so many people are living on a different planet in a very different reality. they truly believe there are millions of votes created overnight, millions of dead people voting, voting machines that switched votes to Biden, even in places like Georgia where the power has been solidly in the hands of right wing GOP leaders. there is nothing you can offer these people to change their minds. same people who believed that Obama's economy was awful and then magically the economy became fantastic after January 2017. I have some of these people in my DH's extended family. they strongly believe that white Christians are persecuted in the US, that we can't celebrate Christmas anymore, that dems will bring a socialist regime (one of them is a farmer in the midwest who this year alone got $60,000 in subsidies from the government, his sister, who has an office job, got money from the government to keep her land unfarmed, many are on SS and so on), that the libs will take their guns away. my DH talks to then mentioning facts but they have their own "alternative facts" and there is nothing you can do to shake them[/quote]

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