The idea that I have to wait for someone to finish a Holocaust to compare them to the Nazis is a white supremacist idea slipped into the common rhetoric. We are sounding an alarm not writing a history book. The point is to change direction before we find out in an expose a decade from now the numbers of crimes committed by ICE guards aga…
The idea that I have to wait for someone to finish a Holocaust to compare them to the Nazis is a white supremacist idea slipped into the common rhetoric. We are sounding an alarm not writing a history book. The point is to change direction before we find out in an expose a decade from now the numbers of crimes committed by ICE guards against migrant children after their fathers were deported separately. Beyond that, he's had his Beer Hall Putsche at the Capitol. He's had shots taken at him that some think were staged. He is, indeed, rounding legal citizens up based on race. The actual definition of fascism as a governmental principle is corporate control of government, altered some years ago to its nebulous authoritarianism by Webster who was friends with many of the corporatists who funded Hitler's rise, mostly the American corporations that still exist and now buy SuperPACs. This is not a truly distinct, separate organism, but a mutation of a sociopsychological virus. A plague meme that takes hold of humanity in times of resource shortage due to greed. The greedy get the hungry to blame the starving in exchange for the promise of crumbs.
EXACTLY!! In Joseph’s post, that started this chain, as well as in some of the Comments, were dancing around some vague “line” between Here and Fascism. Your point, DC, and I think the correct one, is that if we quibble about rhetoric and over-ANAL-lyze definitions, by the time we recognize we’re in fascism, it will already be too late. There was a fine piece recently in NYT about providing ex-MAGATs an “off-ramp”: essentially, welcoming them after they recognized their mistake. I will welcome then when they see the light. But I’m just about DONE with trying to persuade. Too many of them are too locked-in, too ignorant, or too delusional for my persuasion efforts to make a difference. And the “convertible” ones will simply have to be open and curious enough to get to that off-ramp on their own. Thanks, DC!!
The idea that I have to wait for someone to finish a Holocaust to compare them to the Nazis is a white supremacist idea slipped into the common rhetoric. We are sounding an alarm not writing a history book. The point is to change direction before we find out in an expose a decade from now the numbers of crimes committed by ICE guards against migrant children after their fathers were deported separately. Beyond that, he's had his Beer Hall Putsche at the Capitol. He's had shots taken at him that some think were staged. He is, indeed, rounding legal citizens up based on race. The actual definition of fascism as a governmental principle is corporate control of government, altered some years ago to its nebulous authoritarianism by Webster who was friends with many of the corporatists who funded Hitler's rise, mostly the American corporations that still exist and now buy SuperPACs. This is not a truly distinct, separate organism, but a mutation of a sociopsychological virus. A plague meme that takes hold of humanity in times of resource shortage due to greed. The greedy get the hungry to blame the starving in exchange for the promise of crumbs.
EXACTLY!! In Joseph’s post, that started this chain, as well as in some of the Comments, were dancing around some vague “line” between Here and Fascism. Your point, DC, and I think the correct one, is that if we quibble about rhetoric and over-ANAL-lyze definitions, by the time we recognize we’re in fascism, it will already be too late. There was a fine piece recently in NYT about providing ex-MAGATs an “off-ramp”: essentially, welcoming them after they recognized their mistake. I will welcome then when they see the light. But I’m just about DONE with trying to persuade. Too many of them are too locked-in, too ignorant, or too delusional for my persuasion efforts to make a difference. And the “convertible” ones will simply have to be open and curious enough to get to that off-ramp on their own. Thanks, DC!!
This. Spot on!