The most insane part is that The Right™️ that people turn to when the social contract crumbles not only have no solutions to it; what they want/propose will only make matters 1000 times worse.
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116395778447572916
The most insane part is that The Right
️ that people turn to when the social contract crumbles not only have no solutions to it; what they want/propose will only make matters 1000 times worse. This is well-documented fact, but nobody learns it in school, no news outlets or politicians tell it & when people experience it for themselves they're gaslit with extreme prejudice.
Fascism thrives on this engineered blind spot as much as anger.
Discuss.
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116395778447572916
The most insane part is that The Right
️ that people turn to when the social contract crumbles not only have no solutions to it; what they want/propose will only make matters 1000 times worse. This is well-documented fact, but nobody learns it in school, no news outlets or politicians tell it & when people experience it for themselves they're gaslit with extreme prejudice.
Fascism thrives on this engineered blind spot as much as anger.
Discuss.
@jwcph @pluralistic is that true though?
Fascism can make things better, in at least two ways. First, if you're in the "in group", things may actually get better, at least for a while. Sure, the in group gets smaller over time, but at you might be in it at the start.
Second, if you're the sort of person with a violent but fragile sense of identity who can't stand anything 'other', than fascism lets you hit out at minorities. For some people, the cruelty is the point.
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@jwcph @pluralistic is that true though?
Fascism can make things better, in at least two ways. First, if you're in the "in group", things may actually get better, at least for a while. Sure, the in group gets smaller over time, but at you might be in it at the start.
Second, if you're the sort of person with a violent but fragile sense of identity who can't stand anything 'other', than fascism lets you hit out at minorities. For some people, the cruelty is the point.
@thecasualcritic @pluralistic Sure, but none of those things make the bad things about austerity better - you don't get better health care, prices don't go down on anything, you don't get a better job etc.
Per the point of the article, we're not talking about dyed-in-the-wool racists finally finding a home; it's regular people who vent their frustration over everyday problems by protest-voting for someone who will make every single one of those problems worse.
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116395778447572916
The most insane part is that The Right
️ that people turn to when the social contract crumbles not only have no solutions to it; what they want/propose will only make matters 1000 times worse. This is well-documented fact, but nobody learns it in school, no news outlets or politicians tell it & when people experience it for themselves they're gaslit with extreme prejudice.
Fascism thrives on this engineered blind spot as much as anger.
Discuss.
@jwcph @pluralistic Also the social contract has generally crumbled due to the nonsense of The Right that people are turning to.
Step 1: Destroy the social and/or economic order
Step 2: Maintain just enough power to prevent the party that swept into power from quickly cleaning up the mess
Step 3: Shift the blame for the mess onto the new party.
Step 4: Win the next election by promising to fix the very thing that you broke.Repeat until you mess with the money too much.
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