Blotreport: YESByron C. Clark: "Many people don’t recognise fascism because they think fascism will arrive selling oppression and tyranny, but if you’re part of the privileged group, fascism is selling you safety, normalcy, and tradition."
Maksym Planeta@Blotreport I don’t think it makes too much sense to call the German working class of 1920s “privileged”. If anything, they were “underprivileged” and were promised to become “privileged”.
@mplaneta It is not so much about the reality. It is about what they are being sold. To believe it you have to be gulled into it. That is why conservatives create so many boogey-men; where they be the poor, the unemployed, immigrants, ethnic or religious minorities etc.
@Blotreport I am not even sure if you can call Nazis conservatives, because they wanted to change society to make a specific underprivileged group privileged. Not very conservative.
@mplaneta It depends on your definition of conservatives. These days the conservatives seem to havbe thrown their lot in with nazis, religious bigots and other fruitcakes. They all want to privilege their group. As David Frum said: 'if conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy'. In that way they are much like the Nazis.
@Blotreport you correctly separate conservatives (who want to keep things the way they are, which may sound reasonable for the currently privileged) from nazis/fascists (traditionalists who want to “return” to the imaginary glorious past, where “they” were privileged). Such union, when happens, is situational, volatile, and not ideological. That’s why I picked on claiming that fascists appeal to “privileged” people.
@mplaneta The problem with the current crop of conservatives is that they want to return to a 'glorious' past where the young were seen and not heard, women knew their place, the religious were privileged, etc. https://blotreport.com/2017/11/04/conservatives-shouting-21st-century/