Just Tom... 🐁When I was young, in the immediate aftermath of WWII, I was brought up to believe that we had defeated Fascism. Now I am old, I realise that those battles have to be fought over and over again. Never in my lifetime have I felt so despondent about the future.
Moonslime@tompearce49 On the bright side we’re on the cusp of an actual multiracial democracy, something the world has never seen. I like to think of today’s fascists as an extinction burst of a dying lifestyle.
mike805@Moonslime @tompearce49 You sure that's the bright side? The other side of that question is why have democracies not lasted more than a few lifetimes?
The defeat of one particular fascism was only by handing much of Europe over to another brand of totalitarianism with most of the same bad characteristics.
And when that one collapsed, it didn't take long for another fascist to arise in Russia.