At the risk of sounding glib, but I’m completely serious, the US state is fascist. It’s not about good or bad, it’s about the state cracking down on its opposition. And it’s not just now. Opposing fascism ‘too early’ in the ww2 period before the US joined the war, say, by supporting the leftists fighting in Spain would get you targeted for repression in the purges of the 50’s we call ‘the red scare.’
Unfortunately most Americans are in an “it’s not worth it to personally sacrifice to fight fascism until it undeniably resembles Germany in the 1940s” state of laziness/apathy/cowardice/caution/self-interest.
Even those of us who are sounding the alarm bells are generally only doing that - sounding alarm bells hoping for someone else to do something.
Many Amerikans were retroactively targeted in the 50s during the redscare for doing things like sending money to communists in Spain to fight the fascists.
At the risk of sounding glib, but I’m completely serious, the US state is fascist. It’s not about good or bad, it’s about the state cracking down on its opposition. And it’s not just now. Opposing fascism ‘too early’ in the ww2 period before the US joined the war, say, by supporting the leftists fighting in Spain would get you targeted for repression in the purges of the 50’s we call ‘the red scare.’
You see clearly.
Unfortunately most Americans are in an “it’s not worth it to personally sacrifice to fight fascism until it undeniably resembles Germany in the 1940s” state of laziness/apathy/cowardice/caution/self-interest.
Even those of us who are sounding the alarm bells are generally only doing that - sounding alarm bells hoping for someone else to do something.
Um, 1950 was after WW2.
Many Amerikans were retroactively targeted in the 50s during the redscare for doing things like sending money to communists in Spain to fight the fascists.