It is important that we understand how the Fascist Force achieved its recent electoral victory, which looms now as potentially the greatest catastrophe in American history.
This video is about one of the major ways that Fascism achieved this outcome, which in previous eras of American politics would have been unthinkable: Fascism persuaded millions of Americans of a False Picture that overpowered reality in their minds.
People like Robert Reich and Bernie Sanders have offered explanations of the 2024 Election. These explanations have a quite obvious defect.
They both claim that the problem is that the Democratic Party has failed the white working class.
The problem with that analysis is that what has happened is that -- when given a choice between a Democratic Party that does SOMETHING for the working class and a Republican Party that does NOTHING for the working class -- these voters choose the Party that does nothing for them.
Why does that happen?
It can be shown that these voters are voting on the basis of a number of false beliefs. For example,
- **They think the economy has been horrible under the Democrats, whereas in fact the Biden economy is "The Envy of the World" (in the headline of the ECONOMIST).
- **They believe that there's been no job creation, whereas the reality is that this economy has set records for job creation over the past four years.
- ** They believe that the economy is in RECESSION, whereas there has been consistently high rates of growth in the economy.
- When the Truth Loses to the Lies promoted by this terribly dark and destructive force that wins. When the Truth loses, what wins is a force that's reasonable to call Evil.
And what's true about the ECONOMY is also true about a whole raft of other issues-- like crime by immigrants, like climate change, etc. etc.
It can safely be said that if American voters held beliefs corresponding to the FACTUAL TRUTH about all the relevant matters, Trump and the Trump Party would have been soundly defeated.
The problem is that the Lie is winning, the Truth is Losing, and the result is that the darkest most destructive force in modern American history won a potentially watershed disaster of an election.
All these Lies have a destructive impact on people’s choices, and all of them strengthen the Force of Fascism.
When the Truth loses, what wins is a force that’s reasonable to call “Evil” (though other names can be given this force, which is in no way “supernatural.” Rather, it is a recognizable dynamic in the human world that corresponds to my definition of “Evil”: a coherent force that consistently works to make the human world more broken, to make the human world worse.
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To those who wish to find written presentations of some of the central ideas about a force that's reasonable to call "Evil," I commend the following to your attention:
- The Discernible Reality of a “Force of Evil” 2100 Words
- "Understanding Evil" 4600 words