<![CDATA[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.]]>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.

@pluralistic

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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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dresstokilt/statuses/116397293416223897https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dresstokilt/statuses/116397293416223897Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:02:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:49:44 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://helvede.net/users/jwcph/statuses/116397243432758766https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://helvede.net/users/jwcph/statuses/116397243432758766Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:49:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:47:56 GMT]]>@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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