BrianW
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Fascism is like Brexit.
You come up with a simplistic solution for complex problems and people like the offer. The snag is, the real world is not simple, it is incredibly complex. (More so now than it was 100 years ago, or even 50). So simplistic solutions never work in the end. But their proponents argue for more and more extreme measures in the hope they will be proved right if only their incredibly extreme solutions are applied.
Democracy only works properly if you have an informed and educated population who are not deluded by the BS of the latest demagogue to come along, and it's particularly vulnerable during hard times when people become desperate. If you're drowning in the sea, you snatch at anything that looks like a rope, even if it turns out to be a black mamba.
This country has the huge disadvantage of having been, at one time, a superpower. This leads much of the population to have a false consciousness, a belief in Britain's 'greatness' which in their minds makes us special and unique. We aren't, actually. We're just another country with a small land area, limited natural resources, a huge population, and a need to trade in order to survive.
These delusions are helpful to the far-right. Just as many in Germany in the 1920s believed their country had been brought down by Jews, freemasons and socialists, so do many today believe in an 'X factor' which is 'bringing us down.' The X factor includes foreigners (in general), immigrants, the WEF, sinister plots to force digital currency on us, and all sorts of imaginary BS emanating from conspiracy sites on the internet. It's all very dangerous and adds to the general instability, which in turn leads to desperate rope-clutching.
You come up with a simplistic solution for complex problems and people like the offer. The snag is, the real world is not simple, it is incredibly complex. (More so now than it was 100 years ago, or even 50). So simplistic solutions never work in the end. But their proponents argue for more and more extreme measures in the hope they will be proved right if only their incredibly extreme solutions are applied.
Democracy only works properly if you have an informed and educated population who are not deluded by the BS of the latest demagogue to come along, and it's particularly vulnerable during hard times when people become desperate. If you're drowning in the sea, you snatch at anything that looks like a rope, even if it turns out to be a black mamba.
This country has the huge disadvantage of having been, at one time, a superpower. This leads much of the population to have a false consciousness, a belief in Britain's 'greatness' which in their minds makes us special and unique. We aren't, actually. We're just another country with a small land area, limited natural resources, a huge population, and a need to trade in order to survive.
These delusions are helpful to the far-right. Just as many in Germany in the 1920s believed their country had been brought down by Jews, freemasons and socialists, so do many today believe in an 'X factor' which is 'bringing us down.' The X factor includes foreigners (in general), immigrants, the WEF, sinister plots to force digital currency on us, and all sorts of imaginary BS emanating from conspiracy sites on the internet. It's all very dangerous and adds to the general instability, which in turn leads to desperate rope-clutching.
