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[[File:Demonization.jpg|frame|'I am the Pope.']]
{{quote|''"That's the problem with being the devil, [[Hypocritical Humor|everybody demonizes you]]."''
|'''[[Satan]]''', ''[[Old Harry's Game]]''}}
All The Tropes [[Truth in Television|is the devil]]. It teaches our children [[Fetish Fuel|it's okay to be aroused by filth]]. It wants to make [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|everyone in the world fat and lazy]], [[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary|pollutes the English language even more than Internet speak]] and unlike those [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer|evil drug dealers]], they will actually admit they want to ruin your life!<ref>No wait, [[All the Tropes Ruined Your Life (Darth Wiki)|they already did!]]</ref> Self-identity is discouraged among the members of this cult, to the point where personal pronouns and references to oneself are [[Natter|actively]] discouraged. [[We All Live in America|It's]] [[Eagle Land|anti-American]].
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* During an anti-Trump rally, one protester (representative of Vatican 2.0?) had a sign with Trump drawn with horns and explanation: "El Maligno" (literally "The Evil One" - referring to Satan). See on zombietime, ''[http://www.zombietime.com/inside_the_anti-trump_circus/ Inside the Anti-Trump Circus: Here Comes the Summer of Hate]''.
* The last four{{when}} Republican Presidential candidates were all repeatedly compared to Hitler during their campaigns (and their terms in office for the ones who actually got elected), both by pundits and by people posting to the Internet. It's gotten to the point that bloggers make jokes that 'Every Republican is Hitler for fifteen minutes'.
* Still on American politics, this has been the tool and purpose of the Republican party's efforts since the 1980s at redefining the conflict between Right and Left as an outright cultural war between "good" and "evil", as opposed to a more civil conflict between "haves" and "have-nots". A strategy initially proposed in the modern era by [[Pat Buchanan]] and put into practice by [[Newt Gingrich]], it was intended to cast progressive ideals and goals as morally unacceptable to the Republican base even when supporting them would be in their own best interests. The tactic has worked spectacularly well for the Republicans, to the point that as of 2021, after a generation or two of this indoctrination, the most fervent members of their base (and no few younger elected officials) reject common-sense medical care out of the perception that it is "liberal", believe every Democrat is a devil-worshiping communist pedophile, and gladly advocate overthrowing the US government to install a permanent Republican regime.
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