nestofstraightlines:

micdotcom:

US Holocaust Museum’s “early warning signs of fascism” sign is going viral

• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum wants to make sure that fascism doesn’t make a comeback. 
• A Twitter user snapped a shot of a poster from somewhere inside the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. 
• Judging by dollar sign symbol in the lower right hand corner, the sign looks to be a poster for sale. 
• The poster is derived from a 2003 article detailing the potential warning signs of an incoming fascist regime. Read more.

I would venture that Trump’s abuse of his political platform to discredit valid independent news outlets counts some way towards ‘control of the mass media’. He doesn’t have to gag anyone, he just has invalidate agencies with dissenting voices.

Also Trump understand better than most of his contemporaries what mass media actually IS these days. His use of Social Media doesn’t exactly resemble the things we think of re. dictators controlling TV stations etc. But media works differently now, and Trump is subverting these new rules too to his own end.