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If you label a rival political other as an enemy of the state, especially when groups that support the state are known be more violent and deadly to Americans (
by charwalker 6y ago
If you label a rival political other as an enemy of the state, especially when groups that support the state are known be more violent and deadly to Americans (police/white nationalists), that is inherently fascistic.
A fascist government will not announce it is but rather that antifascists are enemies of the state. This has already happened and is simply ramping up. It will lead to stochastic terror and more bloodshed.
- mansion7 6y agoInteresting; So when Democrats label Trump a Russian agent, effectively treason, they are being inherently fascistic. And when the Democrats and their militia, Antifa, call their critics/disagree-ers/dissidents "Nazis" (who are also the enemies of our state) they are also being inherently fascistic. I have wondered why they support doxxing and harassing their enemies, strict ideological compliance, and looting/rioting/arson as a means of political influence. But now that you've explained it's due to their inherent fascism, it makes a lot more sense.
- perl4ever 6y agoI would suggest instead of arguing on the internet, going and reading letters, diaries, etc. from people who were living through WWII which would give some perspective on what fascists were like, what the propaganda was like, etc. "I know you are but what am I" was a very fundamental and common propaganda line of the fascists then, and there were good reasons at the time to not dismiss it entirely. I've been reading George Orwell's letters recently along those lines, where he grappled with British imperialism and why it was necessary to fight the Nazis. It has never been any more easy and obvious at the time to determine the bad guys than now. Oh, by the way, Orwell himself spent some time being a propagandist for the British.