Everyone lucid in the West is freaking out about the rise of fascist thinking, well, everywhere.
Why? Didn't we defeat this obscenity 80 years ago after much suffering? Why is it resurging?
The problem is not that people don't learn from history (they don't but it's another issue), the problem is that fascism is always with us. Since the dawn of time, and forever more.
All fascism requires is:
1. ignorance
2. indecency
3. a demagogue to yoke these walnut brains and ride them to power
1/x
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 /
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