The British were misled.
Lies they were fed.
Fears placed in people’s heads about immigrants and immigration.
The result was Brexit.
Steered by the Populists and Nationalists who claim they are the ones to trust and deliver the fix.
Same as Putin who lies to get and maintain control.
Keep herding the herd.
As do the GOP and Trump.
There is no separation or distinction.
Right-wing choosing, cahooting and colluding.
Once upon a time Americans would reject.
Today they accept.
Putin cemented what Trump and the Republicans are aspiring to do.
Control people’s thinking and their acceptance of what is true.
Dividing citizens forcing them to pick sides.
Patriot or traitor – they must decide.
Family and friends against themselves.
A split, a rift.
Divide to weaken, giving leaders the lift.
As the people and the Country shift.
To where you can start a war and people can’t talk or question about that war at all.
Yet your approval ratings soar and as a leader you can stand strong and tall.
It’s the same – Americans believing that the Insurrection was staged.
Like the dead bodies and horrors in Ukraine.
The leaders are of the same ambition.
There is a desire to dictate so they use conspiracies, propaganda and disinformation.
Russia’s present is America’s future.
If she continues to where the GOP woos her.
Despite the tragic endings being played.
Americans are choosing to stay to the same lanes, following the paths.
Enticed by “alternative facts”.
When the masses are manipulated and misguided.
They are no longer clear or sharp sighted.
Some are not aware.
Others are, but they don’t care.
Because they agree with the leaders’ methods and schemes.
As such it doesn’t have a manipulation “feel”.
But anyone giving credence to alternative facts –
How do you think they came to believe in that?
Supposedly, the majority of Americans agreed that gay couples should be allowed to marry legally.
Right-wing don’t give up fighting against these advances.
So they find chances to stir.
Frame it in a way people can’t say no.
Now the “don’t say gay” bill has set people thinking differently.
Implicitly, making accusations that those who oppose the bill are into grooming children to be gay.
The bill does not reference or say “discuss”.
Instead with the use of the word “instruct” there is an association to a type of indoctrination and curriculum.
As if discussions of diversity of families is teaching children “indecency”.
Dog whistles blown.
“Grooming” and “pedophile” used as buzz words to entice QAnon.
Same tactic used by Putin so he can invade to destroy the “Nazi Ukrainians”.
Just link any opposition to undesirable terms.
Make the masses squirm.
Master the messaging to enhance leveraging.
Experts in gas lighting.
To the point that warnings from relevant experts are no longer heeded or heard.
Also because some prefer to not know.
The lack of truth that occurs is not because access to facts has been totally blocked.
But it speaks to the sources that people choose to flock to.
While they still have freedom to do.
They are deciding to stay ignorant and be lied to.
That’s taking your freedom for granted.
Being so nonchalant and off-handed.
So while Americans are griping about the bad state the Country is in, the GOP is into fixing what “will” come, but is not yet a problem.
As America’s democracy wains, with vast participation from those who claimed America to be their place to live.
They sieve and groom her to meet the strongman’s needs.
To breed, what the Republic stood against.
Seeing as weak what used to be her strength.
Encouraging the birth of the type of Nation the Forefathers meant to avoid when they wrote the Constitution.
For the reduction of the banana-like rule and corruption.
Three branches of government expected to work independently and with integrity.
Not anticipating that so many members of one Party would act so unfairly and succumb to greed.
And that so many Americans would engage and cheerlead.
They’ve gotten people to ignore and dismiss the cruelty and unfairness that has become front and center of those on the right.
A Party that has lost sight of Lincoln and Reagan.
Not wanting to be awakened.
As such MAGA and America First haven’t weakened their brand.
In some ways, they have strengthened their stance.
Finding a place among Americans.
Never ending feeds to the base.
Elevating anger and fear to every case.
Rigging the race.
If you can’t see the similarities between Trump and Putin.
Decipher – that how America was, she no longer is.
That the GOP and Right Wing are functioning as propaganda machines.
Forcing citizens to join a “team”.
That there is dumbing and numbing of the masses.
Gas lighting and gassing.
The cult-like following in red’s politics.
The lies and mind twists needed to stay with their “fix”.
The loyalty to theirs leading the way.
While the faithful say it’s all to the Will of God.
As many Americans perceive they can afford to buy into autocracy and discard democracy.
Continue on as if all of Right Wing and their doings are within the parameters of normalcy.
If you can’t see the right’s flips and flops.
Their padding of power to some at the top.
If you still give equal blame to left and right, Black and White.
Say that the Democratic Party and the GOP play the same game, while giving much more leeway and exception to one.
Accept when norms, rules and accountability are shunned.
Believe that the introduction of conspiracies, blatant lies and terms like “alternative facts” are of the same seed as twisting the truth and the regular deceptions that politicians used to do.
If you still make claims that it’s all one and the same.
That there is no distinction to be made.
If you can’t see what’s different.
Then America’s sails are set.
Brace yourself – ‘cause you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.