What do the fascists get out of saying the truth? Shouldn’t they be cheering on the war machine? My conservative family is sharing this vid around and I’m very confused on what to do. Why can’t it be socialists and communists who get millions of views by talking like this?
Unfortunately, popular consent to govern.
Fascists have always co-opted the speech, aesthetics, and imagery of the left to deceive the working class into thinking that actually it is the fascists who are standing up for the working class.
The western left is either unwilling or unable to contest the fascists, who then have full reign in the public forum to give lip service to the anti-war working class, while shaking the hand of the war profiteers behind their backs.
This is not to say it is entirely the fault of the western left, which has been under the boot of fascism for decades, but their lack of presence in the media, culture, and community leaves the forum open to whatever uncontested viewpoint the fascists need to use to gain consent
It's a case of unable. There is not a single popular news media source that actually allows leftwing views past mild socdem on their platform. The extremely online (i.e. us) and institutional radical left (who are quite literally dying off) know what's up, but the average person doesn't even know such there is a thing that is "left". They know "liberal" and "conservative" and "liberals" are "communists". Or, even liberals who know they aren't communists think that they aren't "communist" because "communists" are "authoritarians", like the Republicans.
The literal narrative of history, reality, and conception of politics is completely different and there isn't a single mainstream news organization that recognizes that it even exists to be given a 'fair and balanced' platform.
As such we are mostly stuck yelling at each other.
It's not that we don't 'leave the forum uncontested'. Every forum that has leftists generally has it's majority share of anti-war leftists, it's just that every. single. forum. is a capitalist owned shithole that bans the fuck out of you if you start to get traction, or has 'leftwing' mods who demonstrate zero understanding of consistent leftwing theory and principles.