Gaslighting is such a good way to think about strongmen communications - well put! Also, an important observation that there does seem to be real solidarity between these men.
Brilliantly told. I've always believed that the wild accusations of anti-social people actually reflect what they themselves think and do, and you've shown how exactly that applies to our corrosive new generation of dictators. Thank you!
Gaslighting is such a good way to think about strongmen communications - well put! Also, an important observation that there does seem to be real solidarity between these men.
Brilliantly told. I've always believed that the wild accusations of anti-social people actually reflect what they themselves think and do, and you've shown how exactly that applies to our corrosive new generation of dictators. Thank you!
As my musical and comedic hero Henry Rollins would say "Search and Destroy" ;)
Very succinct yet rhetorically elegant identification of this blunt, vulgar but sadly highly effective global pattern/phenomenon - thank you!
It can only work as long as nobody talks about it...
The "many" urgently need convincing that they are literally being held hostage by these "few" liars...
To quote the Mekons "Rise like lions, shake your chains, ye are many - they are few" 😃