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Even conservatives use to boast the virtue of achieving higher education. In MAGA times what is the pathway to success?

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Loyalty to the leader, and implicitly knowing whom to ratfuck to climb the ladder.

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ok, true and thats always been behind the veil of conservatism but is that what they will tell their children?

      What virtue will they signal?

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      • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Pretty much just racism. Replace “colored man” with the minority of the day and there you go.

        If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

        -Lyndon B. Johnson

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To look at a historical analogue:

    The system of government was formed whereby leading Nazi officials were forced to interpret Hitler’s speeches, remarks and writings on government policies and turn them into programs and legislation. Hitler typically did not give written orders; instead he communicated them verbally, or had them conveyed through his close associate, Martin Bormann. He entrusted Bormann with his paperwork, appointments, and personal finances; Bormann used his position to control the flow of information and access to Hitler. Hitler’s cabinet never met after 1938, and he discouraged his ministers from meeting independently.

    Hitler’s leadership style was to give contradictory orders to his subordinates and to place them into positions where their duties and responsibilities overlapped with those of others, to have “the stronger one [do] the job”. In this way, Hitler fostered distrust, competition, and infighting among his subordinates to consolidate and maximise his own power.

    The process allowed more unscrupulous and ambitious Nazis to get away with implementing the more radical and extreme elements of Hitler’s ideology, such as antisemitism, and in doing so win political favour. It was protected by Joseph Goebbels’ effective propaganda machine, which portrayed Hitler as a heroic and infallible leader. Further, the government was portrayed as a dedicated, dutiful and efficient outfit. Through successive Reichsstatthalter decrees, Germany’s states were effectively replaced by Nazi provinces called Gaue.

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  • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If MAHA has their way, the path to success is bootlicking Glorious Leader with pulling up our own bootstraps to stomp on the underclass.

    They’re not conservatives. They want to conserve nothing. They seek only to destroy anything in the way of their own power, like all fascists.

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The MAGA types used to talk about an education when it was a way to insult people who make the minimum wage and make it their fault that they were underpaid. They didn’t actually want peoples’ lives to be better, but rather to find a way to look down on entire classes of humans.

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  • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s more like a bucket of crabs. They don’t care to see others rise up.

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  • goofus@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Con Artistry

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