Science, shared values, the arts, community principles, orderly decision making, and care for others are enemies of this and all autocratic regimes as they invoke a god they don’t believe in and substitute for it a malicious god in their own image. Sufficient self-righteousness is required to cover their guilt and unworthiness.
A court of law is expected to operate by established principles and shared values, which is why this administration so vehemently seeks to undermine them. They interfere with subservient loyalty to a despot.
The educated class, especially intellectuals, attempt to make decisions based on reality, science, and reasoning, which violates conformity to propaganda and unbridled greed. It’s why this administration seeks to undermine higher education that does not bend to its faux authority and artificial view of the world.
Knowledge of real history tells us something of who we are, how we got here, and who paid the price of our survival and achievement, as well as to whom we owe gratitude and more.
Artists persist in creative self-expression and show the value of alternative perceptions of the world, which is why art is a threat to uniformity, standardization, and the unthinking and uncreative mob mind.
Love, charity, and care for the vulnerable interfere with the unifying hatred that desperate regimes need to stay in power, which is why this administration actively creates anxiety, destruction of families, and terror in vulnerable, minority, and “alien” populations.
Hate, anxiety, and anger create a mindless passion that is more intent on destruction and suppression than on solutions to problems.
Recognition of global interdependence is anathema to delusions of superiority.
The cynicism of dictators creates chaos and foments discord that, in their propaganda, requires a strong arm and suppression to “fix” the problem they created.
Collective bargaining interferes with autocratic domination and control and, instead, shares authority, profit, and advantage among those on whom success depends.
It’s easy to understand why this administration is doing what it does: to overwhelm, terrorize, confuse, divide, and upset makes a population much easier to manipulate than does respect, transparency, honesty, and service.