Kathianne
03-17-2016, 09:50 AM
There are reasons to guard against letting feelings get so heated that words like 'Fascist, Nazi, Racist, etc' are thrown about like so much confetti. Yes, when confronted with real incidents and the word applies, certainly should call it out.
There are reasons though that such personalities arise, to me this is something to consider. There are warnings of the rise for such, they can be prevented-then that would call for the elite to actually change. Note it's not just in the US:
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/229307/
MARCH 17, 2016
WHAT HATH MERKEL WROUGHT? Tomorrow Belongs To… Who? (http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/03/16/tomorrow-belongs-to-who/)
The far-right victories in Germany was powered by the votes of discontented youths, who abandoned the center-left as well as center right in droves. . . .
This should make all of Europe sit up and take notice: Europe has a lot of unemployed young people (France and Italy: 25% and 40% youth unemployment respectively). If they turn to the far-right to deal with their problems, the discontented youth population would provide a massive reservoir of energy for extremist parties.
We’re not there yet, or anything like it, but it’s worth remembering what lies down the end of this road: the (literal) foot soldiers of the fascist movements of the 20s and 30s were discontented youths convinced that a new, post-democratic politics, with a heavy emphasis on solidarity, was the wave of the future. . . .
The AfD aren’t the Nazis, and they aren’t overrunning Germany—yet. But if the crumbling liberal center of European politics wants to stave off an increasingly menacing series of right-wing threats, it will need to do the hard work to find answers for Europe’s struggling youth, and convince them of what was until recently blithely assumed: that the future still belongs to liberalism.
Fascism, like communism, is an opportunistic infection of the body politic, one that occurs when the institutions — and officeholders — of liberal democracy are too corrupt, or too weak, or both, to sustain business as usual. If you don’t like this outcome, don’t be weak and corrupt.
Related: “Politics is a business often insulated from the ramifications of failure.” (http://thefederalist.com/2016/03/10/the-ruling-class-is-king-george-iii/) More here. (http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-trump-uprising-revolt-against-the-ruling-class/)
There are reasons though that such personalities arise, to me this is something to consider. There are warnings of the rise for such, they can be prevented-then that would call for the elite to actually change. Note it's not just in the US:
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/229307/
MARCH 17, 2016
WHAT HATH MERKEL WROUGHT? Tomorrow Belongs To… Who? (http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/03/16/tomorrow-belongs-to-who/)
The far-right victories in Germany was powered by the votes of discontented youths, who abandoned the center-left as well as center right in droves. . . .
This should make all of Europe sit up and take notice: Europe has a lot of unemployed young people (France and Italy: 25% and 40% youth unemployment respectively). If they turn to the far-right to deal with their problems, the discontented youth population would provide a massive reservoir of energy for extremist parties.
We’re not there yet, or anything like it, but it’s worth remembering what lies down the end of this road: the (literal) foot soldiers of the fascist movements of the 20s and 30s were discontented youths convinced that a new, post-democratic politics, with a heavy emphasis on solidarity, was the wave of the future. . . .
The AfD aren’t the Nazis, and they aren’t overrunning Germany—yet. But if the crumbling liberal center of European politics wants to stave off an increasingly menacing series of right-wing threats, it will need to do the hard work to find answers for Europe’s struggling youth, and convince them of what was until recently blithely assumed: that the future still belongs to liberalism.
Fascism, like communism, is an opportunistic infection of the body politic, one that occurs when the institutions — and officeholders — of liberal democracy are too corrupt, or too weak, or both, to sustain business as usual. If you don’t like this outcome, don’t be weak and corrupt.
Related: “Politics is a business often insulated from the ramifications of failure.” (http://thefederalist.com/2016/03/10/the-ruling-class-is-king-george-iii/) More here. (http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-trump-uprising-revolt-against-the-ruling-class/)