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Explain Like I'm Five

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[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't think fascism is capable of producing competent longterm leadership. Like the ideology preselects for loyalty above all, it's rabidly anti-intellectual and scorns anyone perceived as being an intellectual elitist. It's purely emotion driven and requires ever escalating emotional rhetoric to keep the based angry at external all-powerfully weak enemies (lazy mexicans stealing your jobs, sneaky jewish bankers crashed the entire economy, thuggish high school dropout gangbangers in the inner city are criminal masterminds responsible for all the drugs flowing through rural communities who would overrun everything if they were smart enough to unify, take your pick of contradictory scapegoat.)

That's not to say incompetence means harmlessness, there's a lot of blood that has been spilled throughout history due to incompetence.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, they certainly got straight to the point this time. The last time it took a world war before they really started to shit the bed. I'm grateful, if confused.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well... were not on the other side of this yet. Were still in the sort of early 1930s Germany era where the real problems people face haven't gotten all that much better, and the fascists have made many decently successful smaller attempts at power but haven't quite succeeded in that big push for power. like the stuff that is planned in project 2025.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, fingers crossed Kamala wins and we get another 4 years, at least (us in the rest of the world included).