Despite my relatively good life, it’s hard sometimes. Like over hearing Trumpers talk about the protests in Portland. The words I hear are the words ‘riots’, but never the word ‘protests’.
I can only think of this as a kind of self delusion, a lie to the self to justify individual biases.
It reminds me of the book burnings of Nazi Germany, where there you denied reality, and humanity, just to stay alive, or wind up in a labor or death camp alongside the Jews you defended, or shot.
But here, I think it will be worse, because there will be more people to kill or incarcerate.
It will be worse, because in order to believe the propaganda, you will likely have to sell your soul and abandon the word: truth.
Liferaft in the Abyss 