This is exactly how it’s supposed to work in a functioning democracy.
Where ideally everyone, but at least a critical percentage of citizens is educated enough to recognize the pattern of deceit and false, but easy answers to very complex questions from extremist parties.
Where established parties don’t feel the need to pander to the votes of extremist parties by cooperating and adapting points pushed by extremists.
Where the average citizen doesn’t feel left out by the system and is tempted to align themselves with extremist parties in order to protest the current reality of said system.
Where the system implements safeguards to not allow the system to be taken hostage by extremists.
There are more ways to structure a society democratically than with representational democracy. Other, less fundamentally hierarchichal ways of implementing democracy aren’t as prone to fascism developing.
Also fascism is ultimately the grand conclusion of capitalist neoliberal democracies. Fascists seek to amass, consolidate, and wield power. Liberal democracies fail to resist this amassment because the purpose of a system is what it does, and neoliberals ultimately want it to be possible to amass power in the hands of their wealthy corporate cronies. They are ultimately fascists not because they implement fascism but because they are willing to tolerate fascists implementing fascism as long as they get to benefit from it. Obviously this systems theory stuff is complicated. That’s the point of studying systems.
Anyway. This was a long comment when I fundamentally agree with you. I just want people to think about ur-fascism, where it comes from, and what to do about it
This is exactly how it’s supposed to work in a functioning democracy.
Where ideally everyone, but at least a critical percentage of citizens is educated enough to recognize the pattern of deceit and false, but easy answers to very complex questions from extremist parties.
Where established parties don’t feel the need to pander to the votes of extremist parties by cooperating and adapting points pushed by extremists.
Where the average citizen doesn’t feel left out by the system and is tempted to align themselves with extremist parties in order to protest the current reality of said system.
Where the system implements safeguards to not allow the system to be taken hostage by extremists.
Would be nice, eh?
May I introduce you to the idea of POSIWID?
There are more ways to structure a society democratically than with representational democracy. Other, less fundamentally hierarchichal ways of implementing democracy aren’t as prone to fascism developing.
Also fascism is ultimately the grand conclusion of capitalist neoliberal democracies. Fascists seek to amass, consolidate, and wield power. Liberal democracies fail to resist this amassment because the purpose of a system is what it does, and neoliberals ultimately want it to be possible to amass power in the hands of their wealthy corporate cronies. They are ultimately fascists not because they implement fascism but because they are willing to tolerate fascists implementing fascism as long as they get to benefit from it. Obviously this systems theory stuff is complicated. That’s the point of studying systems.
Anyway. This was a long comment when I fundamentally agree with you. I just want people to think about ur-fascism, where it comes from, and what to do about it
No worries. This is a lefty space after all ;)