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mcuban.bsky.social
Yes. But they are missing that much of this has to be performative. That’s what Trump is great at and Dems are awful at.

You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters.

Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten
guest2u.bsky.social guest2u.bsky.social @guest2u.bsky.social · Feb 13
This was the way.
February 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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onenerdsopinion.bsky.social
Just finished my first nonfiction read of the year. It’s chilling how many parallels you can draw to today.

I’ve included a section that really stuck out to me here.
Book cover: They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45 Milton Mayer With an afterword by Richard J. Evans “"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hun. dreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the dificulty. If the last and worst at of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thou sands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked —if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a” “stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D. "And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying Jew swine,' collapses it all at once, and you see that every-thing, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in-your nation, your people-is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.”
February 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM