This is delusional.
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Which part? How so?
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I mean, there is still dissent and there are some functioning institutions resisting the program, because this hasn't reached its end stage yet if that's what you're saying. However nothing has knocked it off course by any means, we are headed in a terrifying direction.
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That’s basically what I argue in the article.
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The title says America "won't go fascist". I am saying America is already fascist. It's a process that occurs in stages, but it certainly doesn't appear to be reversing itself. IMHO it is accelerating under Trump in pretty obvious ways.
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It's not already fascist. If it were, the 2018 midterms wouldn't happen--or they'd be clearly rigged and boycotted by the Democrats--some prominent media figures would be in jail, etc. If your point is the US has slid in an authoritarian direction and could further, then we agree
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The list of characteristics of fascism I responded with weren't untrue one day and true the next about any of the fascist states it's based on. These policies ramped up over years, and work in tandem. Absence of the totality of fascism in early stages doesn't mean it's reversible
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There was an interesting history of a German newspaper that was consistent in its opposition to Hitler from the Beer Hall Putsch of 1924 to his ascent to power in 1933. Aside from that, the opposition was not well organized.
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And that’s not too surprising, right? Conditions were much worse, and they didn’t have the same established historical references. It’s not like 1930s Germany had tons of movies showing Nazis as evil.
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It’s just slowing the infection down. It isn’t stopping it. The feckless congress simply isn’t protecting us.
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"I’m saying America won’t go fascist because of worries that it could. The immune system is primed." It seems hyperactive and could even be called inflammatory. And that can be as lethal to the host as the infection it is trying to reject.
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