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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4450569" data-attributes="member: 54375">Here&#039;s the fascist emergency playbook:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use the emergency to restrict civil liberties — particularly rights regarding movement, protest, freedom of the press, a right to a trial and freedom to gather;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use the emergency to suspend governmental institutions, consolidate power, reduce institutional checks and balances, and reduce access to elections and other forms of participatory governance;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Promote a sense of fear and individual helplessness, particularly in relationship to the state, to reduce outcry and to create a culture where people consent to the power of the fascist state;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Replace democratic institutions with autocratic institutions using the emergency as justification;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Create scapegoats for the emergency, such as immigrants, people of color, disabled people, ethnic and religious minorities, to distract public attention away from the failures of the state and the loss of civil liberties.</li>
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[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4450569, member: 54375"] Here's the fascist emergency playbook: [LIST] [*]Use the emergency to restrict civil liberties — particularly rights regarding movement, protest, freedom of the press, a right to a trial and freedom to gather; [*]Use the emergency to suspend governmental institutions, consolidate power, reduce institutional checks and balances, and reduce access to elections and other forms of participatory governance; [*]Promote a sense of fear and individual helplessness, particularly in relationship to the state, to reduce outcry and to create a culture where people consent to the power of the fascist state; [*]Replace democratic institutions with autocratic institutions using the emergency as justification; [*]Create scapegoats for the emergency, such as immigrants, people of color, disabled people, ethnic and religious minorities, to distract public attention away from the failures of the state and the loss of civil liberties. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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