As a historian and teacher, and as a Jew, I don’t throw around accusations of Nazi and Fascist lightly, but Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy proposals have crossed the line.

Another escalation against the proletariat, although I think that Biden's administration is sanctifying a lot of what Trump did in his previous term, which only gives more ideological unity to increasingly fascistic policies.

  • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Gods don’t let the transition to the next stage of development take hundreds more years: nothing on earth will survive but cockroaches if we aren’t able to reverse this within the lifetime of people living on the planet today.

    That said, you’re totally right. The shift is now, and has been for a while, and will be for longer. It won’t be the Nazi party, because, power is already consolidated in the hands of the fascists. The big question is which group takes control? The technocrats? The christofash? Or do they all keep fighting it out for decades, making everyone’s lives worse in the meantime unless we can unite and revolt?

    • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I could caveat what I said with “until something changes”. As things get worse, and as the inherent contradictions become impossible to ignore, there will be more reason for people to directly engage, and less for them to lose by doing so.

      Even in my lifetime, in a prosperous country, I’ve seen general sentiment go from “this isn’t perfect, but it’s getting better” to “this isn’t good and it’s getting worse”. As an old millennial, my cohort is probably the last to get a chance at an even somewhat decent life in exchange for buying into the system, and even then we know we're not getting a better life than our parents. Anyone younger knows that they’re not getting the same chance, and they’re going to be radicalized at a much higher rate.

      20 years ago there wasn’t much hope of anything but incremental progress, if that, but now it’s becoming clear that progress simply isn’t going to happen on its own. There’s definitely potential for things to change in the not too distant future, if only because we’re quickly running out of room for things to get worse.

      • MerryChristmas [any]
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        1 year ago

        Thank you so much for taking the time to reply today. I fully agree with you on the current state of the system but I needed that hit of optimism at the end.

        • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Haha, I don’t know if I’d call it optimism, but I think it’s not that difficult to look at history and see that our current trajectory is leading to instability, which allows for change to happen. It’s just not realistic to think that everything is going to get worse forever without any backlash.