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Erin Conroy Feb 25, 2024

Over the last 3+ decades, I've watched the Republican party bring fascism to the brink of victory again, a mere 60 years after its defeat in WWII.

Aided, hand-in-hand, by the post-communist, mafia-state apparatuses of Russia & China - countries the GOP spent the last 100 years using as bogeymen against US voters who wanted better services from their own national government - & by the multi-national corporations that funded the GOP & were rewarded with dismantling of anti-monopoly & FCC laws.

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Erin Conroy Feb 25, 2024

Obviously fascism has still been around, operating in the US and around the world.

I think of "defeat" of fascism more in terms of the way our bodies defeat staph infections or other bacterial overgrowths. Our skin lives with these harmful bacteria always, but a healthy system uses healthier bacteria to keep them in check, at a low enough level that it doesn't kill the whole body.

As Biden's response to Gaza & the GOP's racist border provocation shows, we don't have enough good bacteria.

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texanarchy

@chargrille I like your Staph analogy. With its characteristic lack of empathy, I have been thinking about it like a narcissistic personality disorder. As such, the fascistic impulse has been around since time immemorial. But maybe we can use similar strategies to mitigate it. Like you said - not giving it a platform.