People's failure to understand that fascism is a fairly banal worldview reflects a refusal to understand how common and ordinary looking it is and how well it hides behind our modern high tech lifestyles.
Fascism doesn't have to have 1930s pomposity and daily military parades.
It can look like America, right now, today, depending on who and where you are. America already has military jingoism, mass incarceration, mass surveillance, unchecked paramilitaries, and theocrats denying our rights.
@gwynnion if you read the Supreme Court decisions, from around 2000 onwards, it is so easy to spot.
Institutionalized conservative fascism, deviously advanced from up high, with a racist and Cristian agenda. They seem to care more about the form than about the substance of the law.
There are so many examples: this is just one institution.
@wtrmt Oh, yeah, it's everywhere.
People bemoan the litigiousness of our society, for example, without recognizing how that system benefits wealthy people and corporations, or that it's the inadequacy of our laws and regulations that force people to seek redress from the courts in the first place.
And now with a captured SCOTUS, they can essentially dictate law directly.
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