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A Facebook post by Chris Brecheen, 2018-08-15:

I used to be utterly unable to Grok when my history teachers told me that Hitler's strategy was "Don't tell a little lie. Tell a big lie and repeat it over and over again." I honestly thought they must have gotten something wrong or there was SOME truth to it or that there was some form of mind control involved or something. Like I literally thought Mr. Ballard (and that guy at College of the Canyons) had fucked up a translation or something. It COULDN'T be that simple. It just COULD NOT.

I could NOT get my head around how a lie, proven false, could still be "in play," once it was shown to be untrue. (Many years later, I realize that this is why Nazi ideology obliterated the German intelligentsia--they couldn't get their heads around it either. They kept thinking truth would win. They thought proof would matter. What they needed to be doing was punching Nazis.)

I thought 1984 was really overwrought. Kind of histrionic melodrama, TBH.

Watching Giuliani and Trump tell people that facts change (facts mind you) and not to trust what you see but believe them....and then watching about 24% of the country do exactly THAT and live in an entirely different reality with an entirely different set of "facts," I get it now.

And it is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen.