10-18-2016, 06:05 PM
(10-18-2016, 01:56 PM)Anthony Wrote: But these "fascists" are serving a very worthwhile purpose: They are taking votes away from the establishment, trickle-down/supply-side types, and that's helping progressives win. It's happening in Australia, where the "fascist" One Nation is siphoning votes from the Conservatives, allowing the Liberals to take advantage.
Luck. Pure luck.
Have you ever thought that those fascists might sell out to the Corporate Right in return for corrupting the Corporate Right. Fascists in power almost invariably sell out the interests of workers. Benito Mussolini's Stato Corporativo changed the basis or political representation into one in which economic interests got formal representation in some legislative body in which workers' interests were stepped on and the interests of big landowners, industrialists, financiers, and business executives invariably got the decisive level of power. Nazi Germany? Unions were allowed but those were run by partisan hacks of the Nazi regime.
We are not yet at the stage of the street brawl as a forum for political debate, but we are much closer to that than we were twenty years ago.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.