the road to tyranny starts with not believing that it can happen here and is greased with people telling you to stop over-reacting and believing in conspiracies or extremism.1
— el gato malo
In Victor Davis Hanson’s book The End of Everything the “It can’t happen here” mentality is often why it does happen there. Read my review:
The End of Everything by Victor Davis Hanson
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The doomed, at the brink of civilizational destruction, have an attitude partly born of hubris and partly of naïveté, perhaps best summed up as "It cannot happen to us."1
Transcription
Daddy, the globalists can’t start a war in the USA, can they?
Honey, they already have, but we’re gonna win—their memes are terrible.
I joined a meme battalion on X.
Notes
el gato malo, the new tribe, bad cattitude, Oct. 22, 2024