Perfectly observed and documented.

Yes we do.

Succinct and accurate... and so easy to understand when distilled to this simple statement (quote).
Thank you.

The narcissist gains power by blurring fact and lie until reality itself is blurred.

There are a lot of Psy-ops in Republican Politics........much more than the general population understands, or even recognizes....

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Hitler would not have liked her!

Hannah was a female philosopher

She has an interesting life story....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt

Time for a 2nd cup of coffee.

maybe even most, but it also brings out the best in some. Consider the White Rose Society. And people like MSgt Rodney Edmonds, an American soldier who posthumously received the CMOH and the title of righteous among the nations. (Posthumously not becaise he was killed in the war, but because he never spoke about it to anyone. His son discovered the incident in his journals after he ded.)

Still have only read about half of it. It was so creepy back then with all the stories in the news about militia networks etc.

I recall having some problems with Arendt's writings when I was going through them years back, although I cannot specifically recall what they were, it having been so long ago.

This said, my problems, such as they were, did not detract from my admiration of her work.

This is an excellent quote and evocation for these times, and I thank you for pointing to it.

Religion attempts to do the same thing. They feed people ridiculous fantasy filled stories.

A talking snake, a burning bush that doesn't burn, a curse on a tree, healing people by touching them, a virgin pregnancy and birth, demons in pigs, bringing people back from the dead, using a few fish and loaves to feed crowds, turning water into wine.....and on and on the lies an impossibilities pile up.

If you believe all that then you can very easily believe a Nazi, threatening people who disagree with him, will make a great democratic leader.

People were not expected to believe them and many religious people don't believe them now. It's Creationists and Fundamentalists who do.

I wholeheartidly believed every word the nuns taught me in Catholic School.

Several times I thought I would die for accidentally touching the host. I had nightmares of Jesus bleeding, tortured, dying on the cross. It's a horrible story to tell children.

Anyway, I grew up, learned logic and what evidence was. If you don't believe all the mumbo-jumbo, are you really a believer?

Some of the Bible is straight history, but it also contains high poetry, including love poetry, and a whole lot of allegory and parable. It also contains horrible examples, like the "cursing psalms." C. S, Lewis used to say "If you cannot understand a book which was written for adults..." I don;t remember exactly how he finished the sentence, but there are many ways to end it. My personal favorite is "maybe you shouldn't be talking about it."

really annoyed.

One of the key characteristics of the MAGA cult members is not that they are gullible, poorly educated, and incapable of critical thinking, it's that they very simply do not know the difference between right and wrong.

She wrote several books, I think I read "On Freedom". Her works are filled with great quotes. Off the top of my head -

"Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.”

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/bureaucracy-and-violence-2017-10-08

Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College

Amazing AND infuriating.

Small wonder the tech overlords love it.

You mean this Small Wonder?



Heh..I wonder if anyone other than me even remembers that show..

Who is ahead in this race
No clue whatsoever

Thank you for posting.

From a post by Roger Berkowitz:

of eery single one of the country's institutions. They started by attacking the integrity of the election process, and then began spewing lies about every part of the local, state, and federal government when they did not perfectly align with MAGA goals.

I was just on that foul Next Door app and the MAGAts are describing Dems as hateful, vengeance filled people. Boggles the mind.