• ImplyingImplications
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    13 days ago

    To be fair, Germany’s terrible economy in the 1930s was a huge factor in electing the Nazi party. Hitler campaigned on “work and bread”.

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      13 days ago

      For those worried about the price of food and the economy, don’t worry.

      Trump will fix it.

      Work shall set you free.

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      13 days ago

      that would be such a letdown if the only ground for fascism was inflation… but with the recent rise in europe, might be the case

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        It’s mostly fear based

        People vote for wannabe strong men, law and order shit, when they are scared

        And currently there are enough crises happening for people to be scared

        But fascism is always politics of fear

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          Yeah and much easier for people to latch onto messaging of

          “it’s the [immigrants|minorities|women|gays|etc] fault and I’ll take care of it, just keep us in power and it will all get better”

          as opposed to

          “the system is broken and it’s going to take all of us of different races, creeds, identities, etc to band together and make significant change to fix it”

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            13 days ago

            Exactly

            As long is there is someone to blame, they’re not at fault
            Complete kindergarten mentality, but…well, here we are