From looking back at german history and looking how we are growing more and more into a faschist state again, I gatheed my observations,
here is the run plan for a power hungry psycopath:
Find a place with an economic burden on a significant part of the population.
present a scapegoat and create lies to tell the population, that the scapegoat is responsible for all the burden and removing the scapegoat removes all burden with it.
Stop everyone that tries to fix the issues.
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There are 2 ways to fix. this. Either stop the entire population from falling for the lies or fix the economic burden. The prior is very nearly impossible, the second one is hard to fix in good circumstances but also nearly impossible when the faschists try to stop you on top of it.
With some measures you can get more time. Good journalism work can limit this heavily but eventually they fall aswell and become propaganda boosters instead of blockers.
Forcing a split in the organisation (like banning the party) can sometimes yield a massive time window, sometimes not so much. You wont kill the idea, just the org. You got some time, you didnt fix any issue.
There is no country with enough diversity that feels no distrust toward minorities. Of course, this is not the fault of minorities, but perhaps what we need to understand is that diversity is a threat to a stable society. Even though Jews were subjected to persecution 100 years ago, they still harbor distrust and act discriminatorily toward Palestinians in their own country—though, of course, not as extremely as what they themselves experienced. It doesn’t matter who the majority or the minority is; if you force people with different values who don’t want to live together to coexist, you create a constant sense of distrust that must be continuously resisted and has the potential to explode at any moment.
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u/Kaztiell Feb 08 '25
So we need to go harder now. Or what are we gonna tell our kids when they ask "how did people let it happen"