From the dehumanizing rhetoric of political opportunists to the chilling indifference of the ruling class, the machinery of the State is once again engineering a fractured society where hatred is the primary currency and the individual is the ultimate victim.
History, a cold and unforgiving mistress, never fails to deliver the same cautionary tale: when the centralized power of the State grows, so too does the appeal of the extremist. It’s a vicious, cyclical truth, one that finds its most toxic expression in the tragic events of the 20th century. Before the blood-soaked rise of totalitarian regimes in Germany, Italy, China, and the Soviet Union, there was always a period of deep societal fracture—a loss of faith in the system, economic despair, and a coordinated, relentless effort by the ruling class to pit citizen against citizen.
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