• Nakoichi [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Oh they always have. He's the embodiment of crypto-fascism check that link below where he slips up and mentions the fourth reich.

      • constantly_dabbing [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        the embodiment of crypto-fascism

        Psychology and particularly "self help" neoliberalism are fascist. It's based on being a smug little shit who scolds poor people for being alienated from capitalist society. The Secret pushed by Oprah and other bourgeoisie is New Age authoritarian slave mindset

        https://religiondispatches.org/trickle-down-metaphysics-and-the-dawn-of-a-trumpian-new-age/

        It’s not just The Secret. The basic idea here—that positive thinking can shape reality—infuses everything from Oprah episodes to TED talks to the prosperity gospel. It’s also key to the thinking of Norman Vincent Peale, the popular 20th century preacher and positive thinking guru whom Trump has cited, more than once, as an important influence.

        Still, the president-elect does highlight how certain tenets of New Age thought can grade easily into authoritarian-style rhetoric. The Neville dictum that a man can “decree a thing and have it come to pass” is not all that different from the totalitarian state’s insistence, in George Orwell’s 1984, that the will of the party should trump empirical reality.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Related comment about magical thinking from another thread I just posted:

          It’s a conspiracy theory grounded in the very real fact that there are international sex trafficking rings catering to the ultra rich. It isn’t unique to the right, however, and conspiratorial thinking is heavily tied to magical thinking and has a lot of overlap with shit like flat earthers anti-vaxxers and new-age crystal healing wine moms. I highly recommend In Search of a Flat Earth by Folding Ideas and The New Age to Qanon Pipeline episode of Qanon Anonymous