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applegrove

(131,780 posts) Mon Mar 9, 2026, 03:14 PM Monday

War Consumes Everything Else [View all]

War Consumes Everything Else

March 9, 2026 at 10:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 161 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/03/09/war-consumes-everything-else/

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nationâ€™s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustnâ€™t let this war do so.

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2026-03-01T23:01:10.396902Z" target="_blank">Robert Reich: “A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.”

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War Consumes Everything Else [View all] applegrove Monday OP

Been true since the beginning...nt Wounded Bear Monday #1

I don't know many real world people talking about it leftstreet Monday #2

It does (finally) seem to be uniting Americans against war. snot Monday #4

We've also spent trillions on war during my lifetime, snot Monday #3

if all that money had been spent on cancer research Skittles Monday #6

Exactly. snot Tuesday #7

it certainly is part of the repuke playbook Skittles Monday #5