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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Rule 1. When you're having political problems at home, create a foreign enemy to distract the population.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

who says the enemy has to be foreign?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Also a common liberal tactic.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Also, a foreign threat tends to gather the citizens together. Our post-9/11 unity allowed them to create the Homeland Security Gestapo.