Paula’s Reviews > How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them > Status Update

I wish every person could read this book now. We are in for a rude awakening.

"Eventually with these techniques, fascist politics creates a sense of unreality, in which conspiracy theories and fake news replace reasoned debate."

It's so scary to see all of this in real time. Could this have been avoided? I'm starting to think it that ending to this election was unavoidable.

"Fascist politicians justify their ideas by breaking down common sense of history in creating a mythic past to support their vision for the present. They rewrite the population's shared understanding of reality by twisting the language of ideals through propaganda and promoting anti-intellectualism, attacking universities and education systems that might challenge their ideas."

"The most telling symptom of fascist politics is division. It aims to separate a population into an "us" and a "them." Many kinds of political movements involve such a division; for example, Communist politics weaponizes class divisions."