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 Just remember my friends, if this fascist movement continues to subsume this democracy, there will come a point where almost everyone you know will suddenly get very quiet about their resistance to it. That’s the way authoritarianism works. Friends and family are turned into collaborators very fast

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 @40cd5708 Worked with a lady in 2016 who was of some South American descent.   She flatly said this, that she was curtailing her social media, already at that time, for those exact reasons.  

She'd seen it, understood what was likely coming. 
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Dear Shoq at mastodon social: Prior to World War II the Nazi Party utilized massive brain washing techniques to control the German People, Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Geobbels promoted the "Big Lie," or I should more accurately say the "Big Lies," that socially and politically divided families. The Hitler Youth turned in family members to Hitler's Henchmen prior to Hitler unlawfully and Illegally seizing power. This most certainly could happen within the United States of America. 

We are already seeing this divisiveness play out throughout the U.S.A., where I am presently located within the State of California, often witness what I would characterize as effective brain washing of people who have become victims of far right brain washing. Most of them can be identified as Trump Supporters or GOP MAGA Republican Party Trump Loyalists. Here in Southern California many families are politically divided and there exists a lot of hostility. 

Sincerely, Monica Andrews, Editor-in-chief, #FreePeoplesFreePress News