“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: ‘I, the state, am the people.” 
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Misinformation, intentional or reckless, is dominating our cognizance. While it will remain difficult to sift through information that is presented through filters of bias, we can still educate ourselves enough to independently analyze what is presented to us. This is the only way we can get to a place where information givers will be forced to speak truthfully. It is our responsibility to assert this pressure.

We’ve heard incessantly for the past several months how Trump is Hitler or at least a fascist. But if we are really concerned about fascism, the person in the presidency is of less importance than is the structure that supports the Executive. Look at how much power our government has gobbled up. See how lopsided the bureaucracy is – in comparison to the shrinking freedom of the people, and with regard to the Executive Branch, in comparison to the other branches of government. These imbalances must be corrected.

“Political correctness,” said George Carlin, “is fascism pretending to have manners.” Beware the words that people use to describe these things:

“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.” 
― Simone Weil