SmackyroonSocDem liberals just waitin to rip off the mask
Catpain TypoWhat a stupid person. There is a fascist in the White House and he’s a conservative. It’s all to do with fear. Specifically fear or freedom your own, or someone else’s.
Using the word conservative to describe someone you just called a fascist is hilarious.
You are terribly uneducated on politics.
Fascism comes out of conservative values. They are all based on fear. Conservative voters have enlarged amigdala. Fear of a complex and difficult sometimes paradoxical world leads to fear and uncertainty. That uncertainty gets displaced on to other people being the problem. Black people, women, immigrants. Whatever. The fear leads to control of those groups but that doesn’t ease the fear and eventually leads to the dehumanisation and destruction of those groups.
I know you are sophisticated so you already know all this and you aren’t confused by the Nazis using the world socialism in their party name. National socialist (noun) isn’t the same as socialism (adjective)
QinShiHuangsShlongReducing fascism to amygdala size is idealist pseudoscience (in the vein of nazi race science), biology does not dictate politics. Material conditions drive history. Fascism emerges when capitalist contradictions sharpen and the tendency for the rate of profit to fall creates crisis. The bourgeoisie faces two paths. Either socialist revolution or they turn imperialist violence inward to preserve accumulation. The Nazis suppressed the left to protect industrial capital. Krupp and IG Farben did not care about conservative values but cared about markets and crushing unions. Calling it National Socialism was a tactic to co-opt worker sentiment while serving monopoly capital. Fear is merely a symptom, the disease is capitalism. When accumulation stalls the mask comes off, focus on who owns the means of production not brain scans.
You are mostly correct. Except the bit about fear being a symptom. Fear is the driver. The amygdala bit is an interesting fact. Those with bigger fear centres tend to vote for the no change party.
Fear isn’t the driver. Fear is produced. Where does that fear come from? Not from brains. From material life. Precarity. Job loss. Debt. Crisis. These are capitalist relations, not neural pathways. If amygdala size determined politics, how do you explain workers who risk everything to strike? Or revolutionaries who face death without flinching? Consciousness changes through struggle, not anatomy. Doubling down on amygdala talk is phrenology-tier pseudoscience, same logic as Nazi race science. Measuring skulls to explain politics didn’t work then, measuring brains won’t work now. The “no change party” exists to preserve bourgeois rule, not because of brain scans. This idealist framing naturalizes oppression and lets capital off the hook.
davelFascism is when the capitalist class feels that liberalism no longer sufficiently serves their interests.
Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt – it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.
— Tommy Douglas
MulligrubsJust wait until you figure out that every President in office for your lifetime was a “fascist” and a “conservative”.
Some hide it better than others.