I realize I have no words to describe those who are not outraged by this #abuse of #PolicePower. This is among the horrors of dictatorship that were cited to me as one example of how evil the #totalitarians of the early to mid 20th century were, and how much better the USA was.
Attorneys say that ICE has not improved S.F. holding cell conditions
https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-ice-immigration-lawyers-committee-lawsuit-sansome/
I invited you to read this review on my page on Medium. Though written seventy years ago, much of this book still carries packs a punch and serves as a warning of where we might be headed if we don't stay alert!
“Trump is in touch with the impulses and desires that run counter to social norms, and he invites his audience to put aside the usual internal barriers to acting on or voicing them. This moment is an opportune one for a revival of Freud, whose work, with its signature focus on subterranean inner worlds, helps make sense of these tendencies and their implications for politics….” 🧠 📚 ✍🏽
*via Dave Pell
#Freud #SigmundFreud #politics #USPolitics #fascism #totalitarians
Freud and the Fundamentalist Urge - The New York Times | article from 2006 | via Dave Pell
“To Freud, crowds on their own can be dangerous, but they only constitute a long-term brutal threat when a certain sort of figure takes over the superego slot in ways that are both prohibitive and permissive….” 🧠 📚 ✍🏽
#politics #Freud #SigmundFreud #psychoanalysis #fascism #totalitarians #USPolitics
Mark Edmundson article on Sigmund Freud's political writings, particularly his perception that the crowd wants absolute leader to handle conflicts, much as ego seeks intoxication of wine or erotic love to ease tension between id, superego and outside world, and that healthy polis, like healthy individual, is not the one that has achieved happiness by suppressing conflicts, but rather the one that can deal with tensions, however difficult that may be; says Freud's political thought, which was based largely on his observation of Hitler's rise, has new urgency today, when free society might unquestioningly embrace absolute rule in reaction to terrorism and other threats; photo (L)
Murdered at around 5 1/2 years of age.
This is what #Bureaucracy is capable of.
This is what bureaucracies can have their workers doing.
This is why strong protections for #Whistleblowers are needed.
This is why #Totalitarians, fascists and overlords must be cut off at their roots.
But instead fascists, totalitarians and overlords are gaining power.
Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán are having what MSNBC calls a "dictator playdate" at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump is a totalitarian groupie who thinks it makes him look strong to hang out with anti-democracy despots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRHqJpow8GE
#ViktorOrbán #DonaldTrump #MarALago #DictatorPlaydate #totalitarians #AnneApplebaum #RachelKleinfled #AmandaCarpenter #NicolleWallace #USA #Hungary
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