At least in Margaret Atwood’s novel the radical religious terrorists used guns to overthrow our government.
In the real version we’re literally electing them to office. I feel that not enough folks read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
They’re taking over state and local legislatures, councils and boards.
Christian Nationalists and Dominionists are absolutely a threat to our democracy.
They’ve had this plan for decades and now they’re enacting it. This is a clear and present danger.
@wyre @bleakfuture I'd have more confidence in that sentiment if people hadn't said the exact same thing in the late 1930s.
The idea that something won't happen because it's terrible is what allows it to happen.
@CorvidCrone @wyre when I typed collateral damage that’s what I was referring to.
There were a lot of monsters during WWII - we weren’t immune from that. We put Japanese Americans into camps.
@bleakfuture @wyre I was referring to Wyre's behind that they will ultimately fail.
The fascists might have lost the war, but they didn't go away and their ideas are like stubborn invasive weeds that keep popping back up.
@CorvidCrone exactly. I also replied and sort of mentioned the same.
I do believe fascism is like the monster from IT. You can’t really kill it, you just have to beat the shit out of it when you encounter it.
And be vigilant - it will return.
@wyre @bleakfuture obviously they're not going to just go away.
I disagree that their predecessors' ideas failed, because there is a direct through line from the first fascists to the present ones.
@CorvidCrone @bleakfuture @wyre
We can thank the failures of reconstruction after the civil war, oh and don't forget Operation Paperclip that imported "just the smart" Nazis after WWII.
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