Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  Authoritarian history is repeating.  Startlingly, we can currently identify many similar dehumanizing factors that led to World War 2.  Many argue that World War 3 has already started, we just have not gotten kinetic - yet. But consider there was a similar idle tension before World War 2 unleashed.  Many analysts agree we very close to global conflict, hence the urgency to prevent it.  This is a collective effort.

This site is meant to help you identify red flags and indicators, and how propagandists exploit otherwise good people into committing atrocities and crimes against humanity, while convincing these would-be perpetrators that they are the morally superior group.  Most authoritarians were duly elected by people who were either seduced or misled through propaganda.  This is already happening around the world - and yes, the USA is also part of this world.  In fact, it is the USA at this point in our current world history what is preventing the world from falling into authoritarian rule.  YOU can make a difference by learning the full context behind the many important topics we are covering on this site.

We all have biases. A bias is a predisposition to lean for or against something or somebody we either like or dislike - regardless of whether the facts are in favor or against our perception. When people are unable to control their biases these vunlerabilities create a visceral response that is highly exploitable.

Propagandists thrive on outrage and runaway emotions. Their tactics are to push people into an echo-chamber to boil their anger against whomever they’re supposed to be angry from now on. The key distinction is that they are DIVISIVE – it will become an “us against them” struggle where YOU are suddenly led to believe that your echo-chamber alone becomes that knight in shiny armor to save the day.

To accomplish this, they will issue you easy-to-remember buzz words and talking points. There is a little bit of truth to each point, but if you hold the information to scrutiny the math does not add up. This will incite deep frustration on the people whose biases are being exploited – and they will feel as thought they were put-on-the-spot after parroting these talking points. The result is that they will get defensive, shut down, and likely double down on the aforementioned talking points.