At the beginning of the Trump administration, the Yale history professor Timothy Snyder wrote an overwrought pamphlet warning against the rise of a fascist administration — and warned that Trump and Putin wouldn’t allow us to have elections in 2018, or beyond it, because the Great Orange Hitler would never give up power.
I think you might be giving them too much credit. They are playing their part, reading the lines they've been given. Morally bankrupt, sure. Probably 'compromised' or 'leveraged' as well. But not necessarily as stupid as they sound.
You may very well be right -- and I do notice that they all keep accidentally arguing for naked and obvious fascism, so yes, it does become hard to sustain the argument that they must not notice. Trying to distinguish between the mask and the face seems especially hard, right now.
I think you might be giving them too much credit. They are playing their part, reading the lines they've been given. Morally bankrupt, sure. Probably 'compromised' or 'leveraged' as well. But not necessarily as stupid as they sound.
You may very well be right -- and I do notice that they all keep accidentally arguing for naked and obvious fascism, so yes, it does become hard to sustain the argument that they must not notice. Trying to distinguish between the mask and the face seems especially hard, right now.