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“They let their fears drive them. And that turns them into weapons.”

“The thing Trump’s really good at is getting otherwise rational people to clamp down harder on their fears and prejudices.  These people aren’t monsters.  They’re completely normal.  But for whatever reason, they let their fears drive them.  And that turns them into weapons.”

— “Sam,” an anonymous protester ejected from a rally for Donald Trump, shown in the below video.

[Update: I just want to be conscientious about attribution here — this video appeared (and presumably was produced) by the INSIDER Facebook page.]

“To keep them in control was not difficult.”

“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”

—  from George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”

 

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Photo credit:  By Michael Vadon (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.