Trump's Playbook Exposed
10 easy steps to create an enemy and start a war:
Listen closely because we will all see this weapon used in our lives. It can be used on a society of the most ignorant to the most highly educated. We need to see these tactics as a weapon against humanityand not as truth.*
This is how to create an enemy
This is how to start a war
This is how to create an enemy!
First step: Create the enemy. Sometimes this will be done for you.
Second step: Be sure the enemy that you have chosen is nothing like you.*
Find obvious differences like race, language, religion, dietary habits
fashion. Emphasize that their soldiers are not doing a job, they are
heartless murderers who enjoy killing.
Third step: Once these differences are established continue to reinforce
them with all disseminated information.
Fourth Step: Have the media broadcast only the ruling party's information.
This can be done through state run media. Remember, in
times of conflict all for-profit media repeats the ruling party's information.
Therefore all for-profit media becomes state-run.
Fifth step: Show this enemy in actions that seem strange, militant, or
different. Always portray the enemy as non-human, evil, a killing machine.
Sixth step: Eliminate opposition to the ruling party. Create an "Us versus Them"
mentality. Leave no room for opinions in between. One that does not
support all actions of the ruling party should be considered a traitor.
Seventh step: Use nationalistic and/or religious symbols and rhetoric to
define all actions. This can be achieved by slogans such as "freedom loving
people versus those who hate freedom." This can also be achieved by the
use of flags.
Eighth step: Align all actions with the dominant deity. It is very effective to
use terms like, "It is god's will" or "god bless our nation."
Ninth step: Design propaganda to show that your soldiers have feelings, hopes,
families, and loved ones. Make it cleat that your soldiers are doing a duty;
they do not want or like to kill.
Tenth step: Create and atmosphere of fear, and instability and then offer the
ruling party as the only solutions to comfort the public's fears.
Remembering the fear of the unknown is always the strongest fear.
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Toni Morrison’s Ten Steps Towards Fascism
In a convocation address delivered at Howard University in March 1995, Toni Morrison noted that before fascist movements arrive at a “final solution” (the euphemism used by Nazi leaders to refer to the mass murder of Jews), there are preceding steps that they use to advance their agenda. From an excerpt of that speech published in The Journal of Negro Education:
Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another.
Morrison then continued, listing the pathway to fascism in ten steps:
Construct an internal enemy, as both focus and diversion.
Isolate and demonize that enemy by unleashing and protecting the utterance of overt and coded name-calling and verbal abuse. Employ ad hominem attacks as legitimate charges against that enemy.
Enlist and create sources and distributors of information who are willing to reinforce the demonizing process because it is profitable, because it grants power and because it works.
Palisade all art forms; monitor, discredit or expel those that challenge or destabilize processes of demonization and deification.
Subvert and malign all representatives of and sympathizers with this constructed enemy.
Solicit, from among the enemy, collaborators who agree with and can sanitize the dispossession process.
Pathologize the enemy in scholarly and popular mediums; recycle, for example, scientific racism and the myths of racial superiority in order to naturalize the pathology.
Criminalize the enemy. Then prepare, budget for and rationalize the building of holding arenas for the enemy — especially its males and absolutely its children.
Reward mindlessness and apathy with monumentalized entertainments and with little pleasures, tiny seductions, a few minutes on television, a few lines in the press, a little pseudo-success, the illusion of power and influence, a little fun, a little style, a little consequence.
Maintain, at all costs, silence.
Simple, yet effective. Just like the theme of your book, the steps and signs are easy to produce yet strangely difficult to recognize by the inflicted masses. The irony today is that one of the popular “enemy” descriptors is “sheeple” which describes the agitators far better than it does the dis-believers.