Formula for Authoritarians.
And the "Cultural Marxism" slur / antisemitic conspiracy rhetoric.
⚡️Formula for Far Right / Authoritarian / Minority Rule.
Step 1: Hypnotise through repetition of lies followers into thinking a fundamental right has been transgressed.
Try: "England isn't a democracy.
England doesn't have free speech.
England is in peril."
Note: This works especially well if your proposed solution in Step 3 is
(a) specifically aimed to abolish / lessen public participation in decision making (a human right);
(b) to increase hateful speech, so that those whose voices already don't influence the policy process (children, trans, women, foreigners, minorities,...) are further excluded; and
(c) Imperils England by, say, abolishing 800 year-old human rights or by turning a tolerant, equalising culture into a police state or loads so much debt onto the State, which is then stolen by private interests, that the country's economic future is permanently handicapped.
This is called Accusation in a Mirror.
Accusing a scapegoat of the very acts you're using the scapegoat to justify doing yourself. This conceals your intention and deflects blame unto a scapegoat. Think of the farmer bringing their sheep to the slaughter house: “We’re going on a nice holiday, isn’t it?!”
The EU was a fantastic scapegoat for extreme right English nationalists who brand themselves as "British" to create an illusion of inclusiveness or that they speak for the three other countries that England is dragging along with it into the grave.
Step 2: Scapegoat Trans/Women/Lawyers/ Foreigners/...(any subset of any community will do). Repeat scapegoating ad infinitum.
Step 3: Offer some bogus "Solution" (like, Brexit) that has no relationship with the problem cited, but services other needs, like enabling the abolition of laws that protect the community from rapacious policies, and sh*t filled rivers.
Those High on the Writ Wing Authoritarian psych scale will be so triggered / angry / emotional / violated by Step 1, their brains won't be able to consider whether or not they're being manipulated or if the alleged right is being transgressed, if the scapegoat has anything to do with any such breach, or if proposed solution has anything to do with Step 1 or Step 2.
Authoritarians only need to trigger 30% of the population. Then lessening public participation in decision making and violent, psychological, economic or other forms of coercion entrench further their minority interest rule.
Works every time. Don't try this at home.
⚡️"Cultural Marxism" is antisemitic conspiracy rhetoric EVERYWHERE.
The “Cultural Marxism” slur anbd conspiracy theory originated in America (where I studied Critical Theory at Georgetown).
Now, English government ministers promote this antisemitic conspiracy troll on the BBC and in Parliament and on Twitter, and few bat an eyelid. Because they don't get what's going on.
The Frankfurt School philosophers (who founded the New School for Social Research in New York City among other things while refugees avoiding the gas chambers), sheltered in America from the Holocaust.
While in the United States these, mostly Jewish, academics founded the technique of Critical Theory. They wrote a number of texts which enable us to critique and understand the tools authoritarians use to trigger their followers, to scapegoat, and to destroy our community.
For this reason, Frankfurt School thinking and their work is targeted by far right authoritarians (using their antisemitic conspiracy theory trolls like "Cultural Marxism" libel).
Theodor Adorno for example published the Authoritarian Personality in 1950.
It is the foundational text for explaining why people followed Hitler.
Altemeyer perfected the science in his High Writ Wing Authoritarian psych scale work.
Authoritarians shape the battle field by destroying the weapons (like critical theory) we need in order to defeat them.
That is what anti-woke and those promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories like "Cultural Marxism" are up to. Everywhere.