In particular:
Categorizing the rival nation (namely Russia) as "the enemy"? Check!
Demonizing the leadership of "the enemy"? Check!
Stereotyping and depersonalizing the "enemy" population? Check!
Conditioning the public to hate and fear "the enemy"? Check!
Unifying the media message and stifling dissent? Check!
Labeling dissenters as "disloyal" at best, and "traitors" at worst? Check!
Labeling calls for negotiation as "cowardice," or "betrayal"? Check!
Shutting down communication with the rival government? Check!
This is a public attitude that, history tells us, typically leads to war.
And as that national mental frame persists and intensifies, we find ourselves on an accelerating slippery slope heading straight towards unimaginable catastrophe.
If humanity falls over the brink of that approaching catastrophe, in the brief interval between the nuclear exchange and their death by radiation or starvation, the few survivors will ask, "how could we have allowed this happen?"
That's the question that we all should be asking now. It is a question that is almost totally absent in our national discourse.
Beware!
And resist!
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