@grumpyoldprop.bsky.social as well as many on the left doesn't allow for the possibility that the majority of Americans are (by @grumpyoldprop.bsky.social's definition) fascist. They like to frame it as a 'Democrat' problem which makes no sense to me. If the GOP voters are fascist and a big
chunk of Democrat voters are fascist then the issue isn't "the Democrats" the issue is that Americans are fascist. And I can see a real argument for that being the case.
I don't think most people are fascist--I just think most people aren't anti-fascist enough to take action. A fascist takeover sucks... in principle. And in practice, at least somewhat. But most people's daily lives are basically unaffected. So their choice is the status quo or massive inconvenience.
It's the difference between what we'd prefer to be, what we're willing to put up with, and what sacrifices we're willing to make to redress our grievances.
Way too many people are literally fascist. Maybe 1/3 of the country? Or maybe closer to half? I don't know, and regardless it's way too large a minority. But most of us just wish this MFer would die already, and hope that things will go back to "normal" when he does. We don't want a revolution.
Frankly revolutions suck ass, and when the dust settles we're as likely to be ruled by Ayatollahs from Tennessee as anything else. There's nothing about revolution that makes positive outcomes more likely than awful ones.
I get what you are saying and I agree with it completely. Yet @grumpyoldprop.bsky.social says that the status quo is fascist. The Democrats in DC are fascist and they do fascist things. If most people are ok with how things have been, and things have been fascist.... 🤷
Well, I think back to Milton Mayer's book, "They Thought They Were Free." Basically if you asked Germans what it was like living under fascist totalitarianism, they'd think you were nuts. For most of them, life rolled along pretty much the same as it always had; they would say things weren't so bad.
Also the most outrageous aspects of Nazi rule were imposed gradually and then normalized, so what would have outraged them if done all at once became routine. They also blamed the worst excesses on "bad apples." Mayer's interviewees considered themselves decent, law-abiding, apolitical folks.
Yup and many of the most horrifying things that today define the German Nazis weren't public knowledge. I'm sure one day people will ask "how could people be ok with humans being sent to alligator Alcatraz only to be disappeared into the university of Miami surgical suites where they would be
experimented on by Neuralink (run by Elon Musk)?!" And the reality is that most people don't know and if you explained it to them would say you were making it up. I don't have any proof but I'd bet a lot of money that some of the detainees who think they are agreeing to self deport are instead