jansenart
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Fascism is rot from within. It takes hold in government when people begin to exploit the cracks between laws designed to support a free and open society, and then blames the government for the damage they created.
It can take a decades or centuries to form, but democracies, when allowed to progress on their own without external influence, always end with a series of leaders with fascist (inherently anti-free) tendencies coercing the ignorant by lying to them and appealing to their basest instincts. They change the laws so the society becomes more autocratic, and when bad things happen because of that, they blame the surviving part of the government for the things that were the fault of their policies, to gain more support.
They may even genuinely believe that what they are doing is good instead of evil, and that the bad things are not their fault.
Eventually, the line comes to an end with one single autocrat, whose lust for power destroys both himself and his society.
We've seen this throughout history, from ancient Rome to the Russian Federation, and we're seeing it now develop in the West.
IT. MUST. BE. STOPPED.
Flodos
The price of freedom, rights, democracy or progress is eternal vigilance.
whitebbwolf
davyclam
This is nonsense. Dictatorships are the greatest threat to freedom, not democracy. When power is consolidated in one individual.
maeike128
I feel like this is happening in the Netherlands. We desperately need a rule for max term so the asshole doesnt stay any longer
Marsupialmessiah
Nice frog ... vote Democrat. The alternatives suck.
HollySnow
I agree but why is there a frog
jansenart
Small fact frog.
allihearisnoise
You write as if it started yesterday when the shift to the right started back in 08, if not before.
ExquisiteConundrum
Already voted. Now I just sit back and wait... ughhh...
Clockworkdancerobot
It often uses the guise of freedom in which to take power away from people. The calls to return to a mythical old America.
wickld
Or a more pure and right era, a utopia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism#
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
Liberalism leads ro fascism! (Thats why we need to bring down liberal burgois republics and base pur society on local selfmaneg. socialism)
c246ykycym2000
Cant believe what we live again, we dont learn from past at all
CoarseAndSalty
I really don't think it's social norms but what a society allows to be normalized. In a long enough timeline the people will choose anything
PlumBrandy
Fascism appears when there is huge differences between social classes kinda what we see now in a lot of democracies Poorly regulated capital
ElSoyYo
ArthurT
Q: Do all dictators and wanna be's have to be absolute toddlers? A: Of course.
OaksParcel
This is the meme that has no name, and produces no results on Google regardless of what you search. "Spinning kid meme"?
ElSoyYo
I've searched for a clue in the jacket of the unknown "exPLOrer" kid. It just goes around and around. The original found on Google was lost.
GraceMcClain
Fascism is the result of capitalism. We will never be of the former until we have destroyed the latter.
AtaSeaParks
Interesting. I hadn't thought about it that way before: a constant search for the loopholes in society to gain money and power.
littleswimming
i would like to subscribe to this frogs newsletter.
ucandcantunc
Lack of consequences causes crime….checks out.
5GTurnedTheFrogsGay
Well summarized ?
Calicoastin818
Let’s vote ?
Thelrishlnquistion
Midterms are next week. Get your fucking lazy arses in gear. Brazil did. Now it’s your turn.
wickld
I thought you were talking about an exam at first, like this explanation was aiding your studies in some way. I'm amused at my stupidity.
StellarJay77
Yes, everyone needs to vote to make up for the ones who can't due to the voter suppression tactics of the Republicans.
sushiengineer
Hold on... Lemme finish this twinkie and big Mac
neezie
Kinda- they had a lot of smaller runnings end up on the other side. Lulu was the big win but it’s exactly like Biden vs congress/senate
Comet260
Still, it's a start.
MentalEntropy
Voted early, and voted blue.
SoundFuture
Same. Fuck off Abbott.
wizardOTC
Voted and verified my signature was good online. I am in a purely red state, so I at least say that I didn’t stand by and watch. Bo Burnham-
wizardOTC
“Apathies a tragedy, and boredom is a crime.”
10yearslurking
I think we need to start planning the post fascism resistance. How will it work? Organize? Etc?
AZRAELSBLADE
Yu8MopWho
slamorama
Fascism is where capitalists parties go when threatened with small amounts of socialism.
Liondrome
Please use the #politics tag so those of us who come to imgur to just relax can filter stuff like this out.
jansenart
You keep ignoring this, you're fucking doomed because they come for you eventually too.
Liondrome
I don't live in the states. In my country we don't have this problem. I'd recommend you take the topic to forums more local.
jansenart
What the fuck did I just say? Did you not see what the Nazis did in the 1930s? THEY WILL COME FOR YOU.
EaNasirsExcellentHighGradeCopper
The problem is, a disturbingly large percentage of people prefer to live in ignorance and pretend its not happening, and won't care until it
demosteness
Education and culture is the best solution against fascism.
minipancho94
propaganda does wonders m8. capitalist will inevitably side with fascist to preserve their wealth/power, and guess who controls the media?
EaNasirsExcellentHighGradeCopper
goosesteps its way into their home and life, and by then it'll be to late, and their chance to have prevented it will be gone.
Clockworkdancerobot
What was the phrase? You can dismantle a democracy piece by piece... till there are jackboots in the halls? Forgot where I heard it.
OdinYggd
Last I checked an entire generation of people wanted nothing more than to die young. Destabilizing a country can help with that.
InTangier
Fascism is like a fever. It triggers when the hierarchy is compromised. Suppression of worker rights and austerity first. Capitalists break>
InTangier
Their own economy and country. Fascists come along with populism and offer simple solutions. Hierarchy is enforced. Austerity was never >
InTangier
About restoring the economy, making it more sustainable. It doesn't do aby of that. But they still try to push it.
TheDogEnd
Fascism cannot be combated by the very system it's exploiting. Only through force can fascism be extinguished.
jansenart
There's got to be a way to finally prevent it. Awareness is the start.
TheDogEnd
There is no way to *finally* prevent it. There will always be selfish people for whom the ends justify the means; democracy is an active 1/
TheDogEnd
pursuit. Not only is it our duty to participate in our democracy, via voting, but to watch for and respond to fascism whenever it appears2/2
KalypsoKirin
Fascism serves the same political purpose as Absolutism. As the absolute power of the monarch was used to defend feudalism from capitalism,
KalypsoKirin
So too is the absolute power of the state used to protect capitalism from Socialism. That's why most fascist dictatorships will collapse ...
KalypsoKirin
... right back into a liberal democracy eventually. See Spain, Franco was allowed to do what he wanted and now Spain has returned to ...
KalypsoKirin
A democracy, but one where an entire generation of leftists we're hunted down and killed
Icantthinkofaname2
A) Fascism is capitalism's trump card. B) We understand fascism can't simply be voted out, right?
UncleTwistyFresh
Voting buys time
covideokilledtheradiostar
This. Voting is a temporary stop gap. But there are much bigger reasons it exists other than voting.
leoszliard
Yes. Being prepared to defend vulnerable communities from the continuing pogroms perpetrated by the right is something more should do.
Froggie243
Not voting this time is inviting a wrecking ball into your house and hoping it doesn't take damage magically.
Strategicgnomer
Well that's easy, wrecking balls are blunt damage, not magical.
StSob
While voting alone might not work, its still important. You need to use all available political tools to have a better chance of success.
StSob
As a side note, the Spanish Civil War shows that fighting fascism with violence doesnt have a 100% success rate either.
Icantthinkofaname2
So, I hope we seriously are willing to use the others
Chereazi
It can't be voted out, but the people that get voted in can pass legislation to slow or even stop it
Icantthinkofaname2
....I disagree. I agree that voting is necessary. But I don't agree that those we vote for will be enough to halt or slow it.
nesurame
There's more to it than simply voting. If facists gain power, they use it to peel apart the communities group by group until there isn't
nesurame
enough opposition to stop them from doing what they want to do.
Greenwaxy
It can’t be voted OUT. But if the rest of us don’t vote, fascism will get voted IN.
Icantthinkofaname2
I do appreciate the difference, and definitely have voted. And you all should as well. But sadly, fascism won't care.
TheRelevancyOfMyNameIsRelativelyIrrelevant
fascism got voted in 70 years ago. that rot is just now coming to the public conscience
UniversalBasicIncome
Thank you. Everything we're seeing is a symptom, not the disease. As soon as productivity was disconnected from wage increases... fucked.