• Emi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Very true, the fascist playbook they ARE using is pretty simple. Find a marginalized community, vilify and lie about them, and push them out of public life. The more marginalized they make said community, the easier it is for them to justify more Draconian ways they can treat them.

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      And the thing is, there is no “winning a final battle” with fascists like this. Let’s say that all their fascist dreams come true. They’ve eliminated every LGBTQ person from America and made being LGBTQ a capital offense. They’re done right?

      Of course not. Next, they’ll target Muslims, immigrants, BIPOC people, Jews, and too many other minorities to list. Now, say they’re successful there. All us minorites are now either dead, imprisoned, or second class citizens with zero voting rights that are tolerated for as long as we’re useful to the fascists.

      Now are they done? No. Fascists always need an Other. So they’ll start to cannibalize. Maybe Christian Group A will declare that everyone in Christian Group B are just pretenders. They’ve been behind everything all along (since fascists love conspiracies). Now Christian groups will be banned one by one. Or maybe anyone with green eyes or red hair will be declared to be an unfit aberration that must be destroyed.

      The only time a fascist would be happy would be if the entire country was populated by clones of himself that are 100% identical in every way and always think alike. Anything short of this and they’ll turn every slight difference into a war to be waged.

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        It’s an inherently self-destructive, unsustainable ideology. None of them think that they’ll become a victim of their own ideology until the Gestapo knocks on their door.

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          As a German let me just recite a famous prose about it:

          First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
               Because I was not a socialist.
          
          Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
               Because I was not a trade unionist.
          
          Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
               Because I was not a Jew.
          
          Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
          

          ~ Martin Niemöller