Germany revises election result in major setback for right-wing AfD and to the benefit of socialists
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Leftists do not care about "exposing themselves as totalitarians," and they're certainly not too smart to do that -- they do it openly and gleefully because they can.
Exactly this. Within days of the election (which will be stolen obv) it will pivot from:
to:
Talk to the average normie about whether they think the establishment is totalitarian. They want to keep the normies on their side, which is unfortunately not very difficult when you are incharge.
Perceptions of the average normies -- who are in self-imposed television, social media, and sportsball escapist-cognitive-dissonance prisons -- aren't a reliable or reasonable metric for how open totalitarianism is.
Normies lack defiance. Normies don't cop to recognizing tyranny because they're too afraid to confront the possibility it exists, and they're too afraid to confront themselves about what their responsibility is in the face of tyranny. They delude themselves to escape notice or they side with it and pretend or believe it's good without thinking too hard. Ever watch those "interviews" of Chinese citizens on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square? How they pretend to not know, how they're terrified of the implications, and/or how they want to be left alone? That's Western normies now.
Normies, by definition, have no thought process beyond the last thing the screen told them to think. You'll "get through to them" and as soon as you walk away they reset to zero.