What’s happening in Turkey today is not some exotic oddity. It’s a forewarning of exactly what can (and is) happening in the West.
Does this timeline seem familiar?
1. Neoliberals get elected. They fill their coffers while alienating a whole swath of society who they deem too far beneath them to matter.
2. A religious fundamentalist arises who speaks to those marginalised people, telling them they’ve been wronged (they have) and that he will make it right.
3. He gets elected.
4. He stays.
…The only point we haven’t seen (yet) in the West with the current rise of fascism across both sides of the Atlantic is the last one.
That’s not because it cannot happen here.
It‘s just because it hasn’t happened yet.
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Notice where it starts though – and try not to ignore it or rationalise it away even if your salary depends on it – because this is the bit that’s going to hurt:
Neoliberalism is the slippery slope to fascism.
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@aral Historically, what we consider Liberalism today has always gone hand in hand with nationalism and totalitarianism. It's only been in the last 150 years or so that we had labels for Liberalism and Fascism.
It's a deeper trend that's hard to research.
@aral
People in the West, esp the US, are not very good at observing anything outside their borders
You are right to share the warning.
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