Tuesday, January 31, 2017

A Reichstag fire ?

     Heather Richardson, Professor of History at Boston 

College, said this declaration of a Muslim ban coming from 

Bannon through the White House is "Shock Event" 

manipulation.   She said in her essay that historically these 

events have been used to get the masses arguing 

among themselves and so distract from the purpose of 

protests.   Historically, there are many such political 

maneuverings that have swayed opinion or just plain 

brought the public to heel, and bolstered Presidential 

approval ratings to boot.  

      Let's pretend that Bannon and company wanted to end 

all these protests that are making our new President so 

uncomfortable and they are feeling a loss of power and/or 

positions and they staged this shock event without even 

passing the declaration through their own party channels.

A really big "shock event", something like 9/11, could then 

be staged.  A "terrorist" major killing event could then set 

off all sorts of assault rifle revenge and confusion among 

arguing groups and liberals calling for calm and social 

media stories made up by varied vying groups.  This would 

result in a parade of puppets that make up this cabinet 

to decree martial law.  The protestors would lose their 

voices and their power and all would be ceded to the 

government The many would see this as reasonable and the 

few would come to understand this as how fascism 

comes to a democratic society.   



       
           

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