Unveiling the Playbook: How Governments Exploit Fear for Power – Flopping Aces

“All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.”

This line which many have sought to claim is inauthentic comes from Hermann Göring, former president of the Reichstag, in an interview with Gustave Gilbert during his war crimes trial in Nuremberg.

The full quote is all the more chilling in its entitlement, utter lack of ethics and seemingly blasé presumption that power justifies power. You just “drag the people along.”

It is an unfortunately old and widespread playbook.

And it does make you wonder about some stuff like this:

“FBI Director Wray Raises Alarm About Terror Threat; Warns About TikTok; Raises Eyebrows On Protest Remarks”

I mean, my goodness. Another unprecedented crisis!

In an election year no less.

Quite the co-ink-i-dink.