It's because they didn't know all the bad shit existed until someone on a podcast told them but then immediately made it about white liberals. Ignore what all the historical fascists did to people who weren't just like them, concentrate on their feelings about the legitimacy of institutions. Fascism isn't a problem just because it's a lack of democracy. We already have a lack of democracy for many people and groups. It's a problem because it's a violent oppression, a mask-off mandate to exterminate the people without democracy. As history shows it's also a cleanse of people who are privileged but won't fall in line and that's the part which these people are truly concerned about. Yeah yeah forget that America has always been a meat grinder for anyone not wealthy for over 200 years. But we can't afford to lose those institutions! We need those to do this long, drawn-out process of bourgeois democracy that doesn't do shit for those groups so the same people in our cohort don't outright murder them in the streets, which we do sometimes anyways.
Also never ask the question why these legitimate and great institutions tend to create fascist movements. If this democracy is so real and great then why the fuck do these people keep showing up every 50 years? What is the connection between Western republics and the rise of fascism? Can't ask those questions we have to pretend fascism is just a ghost that possesses some people through memes. If we do the right incantation of being deeply concerned online then we can exorcise the spirits! But it only works if we all do it and avoid material analysis because that's divisive and also undermines the precious institutions.
It's because they didn't know all the bad shit existed until someone on a podcast told them but then immediately made it about white liberals. Ignore what all the historical fascists did to people who weren't just like them, concentrate on their feelings about the legitimacy of institutions. Fascism isn't a problem just because it's a lack of democracy. We already have a lack of democracy for many people and groups. It's a problem because it's a violent oppression, a mask-off mandate to exterminate the people without democracy. As history shows it's also a cleanse of people who are privileged but won't fall in line and that's the part which these people are truly concerned about. Yeah yeah forget that America has always been a meat grinder for anyone not wealthy for over 200 years. But we can't afford to lose those institutions! We need those to do this long, drawn-out process of bourgeois democracy that doesn't do shit for those groups so the same people in our cohort don't outright murder them in the streets, which we do sometimes anyways.
Also never ask the question why these legitimate and great institutions tend to create fascist movements. If this democracy is so real and great then why the fuck do these people keep showing up every 50 years? What is the connection between Western republics and the rise of fascism? Can't ask those questions we have to pretend fascism is just a ghost that possesses some people through memes. If we do the right incantation of being deeply concerned online then we can exorcise the spirits! But it only works if we all do it and avoid material analysis because that's divisive and also undermines the precious institutions.
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great answer