Hitler. Nazi. Fascist. These words used to mean something specific, something historical, something horrifying. Now they mean “person who disagrees with today's approved narrative.” The inflation of language has made actual evil indistinguishable from ordinary dissent. When everyone's Hitler, no one is.
But that's the point, isn't it? Once you've called someone a Nazi, you don't have to engage with their ideas. You don't have to debate. You don't even have to think. They're Hitler, discussion over, conscience clear. It's the ultimate thought-terminating cliché, deployed millions of times daily across every platform, turning every political disagreement into Nuremberg.
They call it “populism” – that's the first lie. What we're witnessing isn't some grassroots uprising of the unwashed masses. It's orchestrated theater, a carefully managed pressure valve designed to release steam without threatening the boiler. The people they label “populists” are just playing their assigned roles in a script written by the same hands that claim to oppose them.
Think about it. Every supposed “populist” movement (yes, including “MAGA”) gets wall-to-wall media coverage, corporate funding through back channels, and somehow always emerges right when the establishment needs a convenient enemy. They're not outsiders – they're the designated opposition, the Washington Generals to the establishment's Harlem Globetrotters.
The real dissidents, the ones who might actually threaten the system? They don't get TV interviews. They get memory-holed, deplatformed, or suddenly discover child pornography on their computers. The “populists” you see on TV are house-trained rebels, manufactured dissent designed to channel real anger into harmless directions.
They don’t show us the everyday soul just trying to scrape by with a shred of pride and quiet. No, they parade a circus of frothing zealots, crowned as the “voice of reason,” the the people who indulge in the transformation of personal failure into systemic oppression. “Racism,” “sexism,” “classism” – they're universal excuses, get-out-of-responsibility-free cards for anyone who can't compete.
Didn't get the job? Must be discrimination. Can't pass the test? The system is rigged. Your business failed? Structural inequality. It's never about merit, never about effort, never about the simple fact that some people work harder, think clearer, or want it more.
The genius of this con is that it creates permanent clients for the grievance industry. Once you've convinced someone their failures aren't their fault, you've got a customer for life. They'll need constant validation, constant enemies to blame, constant “advocates” to fight their battles. It's a protection racket where the protection is from reality itself.
Watch how quickly someone who escapes this mental prison gets attacked. A minority who succeeds without playing victim? They're a “traitor.” A woman who rejects feminist orthodoxy? “Internalized misogyny.” The message is clear: stay on the plantation, or we'll destroy you.
Political discourse has degraded, has been weaponized into pure manipulation. Words no longer carry meaning; they're just triggers designed to short-circuit thought. “Democracy” means whatever serves power. “Science” means whatever supports the agenda. “Misinformation” means truth that's inconvenient.
When words lose fixed meanings, when every statement becomes purely emotional, rational resistance becomes impossible. You can't argue against fog. You can't debate with someone who changes definitions mid-sentence. That's the point.
They've created a linguistic maze where every exit leads back to the center, where every term of opposition has been pre-emptively poisoned. Try to discuss immigration? You're xenophobic. Question spending? You hate the poor. Oppose war? You're unpatriotic. The language itself has been rigged to make dissent literally unspeakable.
The architects of control discovered something beautiful in its simplicity: you don't need to control thoughts if you can prevent thinking entirely. Flood the zone with garbage. Create information obesity. Make people so exhausted by the sheer volume of noise that they'll accept anything just to make it stop.
It’s not so much about censorship as it is about irrelevance, not deprivation but oversaturation. Give them so much “information” that truth becomes just another option, pump in a never-ending stream of garbage into their brains, give them digital echo chambers; choices among many in the marketplace of ideas where all products are equally worthless.
Social media is not a communication platform; it's a confusion generator, a machine for creating the illusion of engagement while preventing actual understanding. Everyone's talking, nobody's listening, and the real decisions get made in rooms you'll never enter by people you'll never meet.
These are the people manufacturing the next crisis you are supposed to be scared about. Every expansion of power needs a crisis. The “war on terror” is perfect because terror can never be defeated. It's a tactic, not an enemy. You might as well declare war on flanking maneuvers or ambushes. The vagueness is the point – a blank check for perpetual emergency powers.
Since 2001, over $5 trillion has been transferred from taxpayers to defense contractors, security firms, and surveillance companies. Entire industries exist solely because of this manufactured crisis. They don't want to win a war on terror because winning would be bankruptcy.
The same governments fighting terror are its primary producers. They fund the extremists, destabilize the regions, create the conditions that generate exactly the threats they claim to fight. It's a self-licking ice cream cone, a perpetual motion machine of crisis and response.
The surveillance state, the erosion of rights, the normalization of torture – none of this was about safety. It was about control. And the best part? The population demanded it. They begged for their own chains, pleaded for protection from threats their protectors created.
They've convinced you there are only two sides. Left versus right, progressive versus conservative. But look closer. They all went to the same schools, live in the same neighborhoods, attend the same parties. Their kids intern at each other's foundations. They argue on camera and laugh together at dinner.
The “radical left” and “far right” are two wings of the same bird, both serving the same purpose: making the useful idiotic masses look reasonable by comparison. They somehow always support war, always bail out banks, always expand surveillance, always serve corporate interests, and don’t talk about it on social media. They just think that’s how it works and has always been.
The real division isn't horizontal – it's vertical. It's not about left versus right but about those who make decisions and those who live with consequences, those who write rules and those who follow them, those who matter and those who don't.
Every system needs release valves, designated spaces for dissent that never threaten the structure itself. That's what most “alternative” movements are – anger sinks, places where rage can be expressed and exhausted without achieving anything.
Watch what happens to actual threats to the system. They don't get debated – they get disappeared. Their funding dries up, their platforms vanish, their leaders suddenly face scandals or accidents. The “populists” and “radicals” you're allowed to see are the ones who've been vetted, approved, and deployed.
The establishment doesn't fear the “populist right” or the “socialist left” because they created them. They're branded products, each designed to appeal to specific market segments of discontent. Like professional wrestling, the outcomes are predetermined, but the audience is encouraged to believe it's real.
Real change would mean acknowledging that the entire framework is fraudulent. That democracy as practiced is theater. That capitalism as currently implemented is cronyism. That the law as applied is arbitrary. That the whole elaborate structure of modern governance is designed not to serve but to extract.
But that acknowledgment would end the game. So instead, they offer you false choices, managed rebellions, controlled opposition. They let you vote for your favorite color of chains, your preferred flavor of exploitation. They let you protest in designated zones at permitted times with approved slogans.
The genius of the system is that it makes you complicit in your own subjugation. You participate in the elections that don't matter. You consume the media that lies to you. You repeat the slogans that disarm you. You police each other more effectively than they ever could.
And if you start to wake up, start to see the strings? Well, there's a label for that too. “Conspiracy theorist.” “Extremist.” “Dangerous.” The system has pre-written dismissals for every form of pattern recognition, every moment of clarity, every instance of actual understanding.
That's the trap. And knowing it's a trap doesn't free you from it. Because the trap isn't just external – it's in the language you speak, the thoughts you're able to think, the very concepts you use to understand the world. They haven't just captured the institutions. They've captured meaning itself.
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“Confusion Generators”… social media described to a tee! It was amusing to see the maga folks and their confusion when the photos of the presidential dinner with Gates and Zuckerberg seated next to the commander in chief. They still haven’t figured out that they are watching the latest episode of The Apprentice. The show must go on lol.
Great job as always Lily
“You police each other more effectively than they ever could.”
Cancel and consequence culture only benefits the powerful. No need for censorship when we, ourselves, punish fellow citizens for what they say. And many others then censor themselves not wanting to get cancelled.