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In reply to the discussion: You do realize he has gone full fascist in his speeches. [View all]gtar100
(4,192 posts)They keep trying but rigid power structures breed corruption, secrecy, lies and abuses of power. It's important to see *why* some people are attracted to fascism (though they don't call it that). I think they believe in an order and hierarchy they see serving their needs for security and opportunities. What they fail to see is how horribly cruel and corrupt people in power become under totalitarian, right-wing governments. They fail to recognize that they actually erode security and opportunities. But the social structure gives them a clear view of "the greater good" as they imagine it so they hang on as the world turns to shit around them, never seeing it's their own ideology that is ruining things.
What bothers me most about this is how it keeps popping up in our history. I grew up in the '70s and it was ingrained in us that fascism and nazism were bad things. Now I see much of my generation embracing those ideals. They have made themselves useful idiots to these pasty-faced worms who try to pass themselves off as their leaders. Oh republicans...they make such a mess of things and overlook some mighty hypocrisies but they never fail to vote.