When people talk about a cannonball causing destruction, they often don’t focus on describing the gunpowder and wad loaded into the firing chamber, just the cannonball.
There are a few problems with that. If you “other” people who aren’t already fascist then you’re likely to push them straight into it. You also run the risk of losing your legitimacy. People will think Anti Fascists just call everything fascism. And finally, that leaves no path back for fascists. If they’re either fascist or progressive then they’ll stay where they are. You defeat an idea by giving its people a path to come back to mainstream society.
So you can’t just describe the entirety of conservatism as part of a fascist mechanism and get a good result. It’s not true and it will back fire.
Liberalism shares essential elements too. Like nationalism, corporatism, and a fetish for crime and punishment. Should we call them fascist too?
Oh and there’s people on the far left who think Stalin was right.
The seeds of Fascism are everywhere. That’s why it’s a dangerous ideology. You can come to it from any angle. Ironically your take on conservatives fulfills the requirement for a chosen enemy of the people.
This argument of yours is ridiculous and again leans on only the most extreme of conservatives.
Then why are you only talking about the most extreme parts?
When people talk about a cannonball causing destruction, they often don’t focus on describing the gunpowder and wad loaded into the firing chamber, just the cannonball.
There are a few problems with that. If you “other” people who aren’t already fascist then you’re likely to push them straight into it. You also run the risk of losing your legitimacy. People will think Anti Fascists just call everything fascism. And finally, that leaves no path back for fascists. If they’re either fascist or progressive then they’ll stay where they are. You defeat an idea by giving its people a path to come back to mainstream society.
So you can’t just describe the entirety of conservatism as part of a fascist mechanism and get a good result. It’s not true and it will back fire.
Why not?
It is evidently true that conservatism usually leads to fascism, the ideologies share essential elements.
I would say treating conservative snowflakes with kid gloves is what has backfired.
Liberalism shares essential elements too. Like nationalism, corporatism, and a fetish for crime and punishment. Should we call them fascist too?
Oh and there’s people on the far left who think Stalin was right.
The seeds of Fascism are everywhere. That’s why it’s a dangerous ideology. You can come to it from any angle. Ironically your take on conservatives fulfills the requirement for a chosen enemy of the people.
This argument of yours is ridiculous and again leans on only the most extreme of conservatives.