The more vile they become, the more power they'll need to keep the rest of us in line. The midnight knock on the door, arrest without constitutional protection and indeterminate detentions without civil recourse will be cornerstones of control - as in all totalitarian cultures.
This feeds on itself.
The incentive is to ever higher brutality. You're right, LearsFool. This is what happened in Germany ... The German evil ones used 'economic stuff' to hang their thuggery on.. Our evil ones are using 'fear of terror' to hang their evil on. Of course the 'terror' their protecting us from is primarily the 'terror' of their political opponents.. - in short "us". We're the new Jews.
Thanks for the ping/post back to this read-every-word, read-every-tagline, contemplate-it-all thread.
Understand it. Prepare.
Thanks to all patriots.
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Scottish and British writers, screenwriters, and playwrights call such a device -- of an off-stage presence, or idea, or imminent development, as a plot- or situation-peg -- a "McGuffin". In Waiting for Godot, the McGuffin is Godot and what will happen when he arrives.
Given a good McGuffin, a screenwriter can make his script dance like Fred Astaire without ever having to address the "McGuffin" and its truth or falsity. It's like a planted axiom.