Does it feel like most Americans are ignoring the insane rise of fascism?

[ancianita]

54. I'm not at all

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wanting or trying to be right. I want all this to not be true. A true map of reality shows us how to navigate the world. What if we learn that our map isn't the territory.

Fear is an inherited trait that helps us survive legitimate disasters, or predator ambush. I get that. So one learns to map danger zones.

But when fears are imposed by design, they're illegitimate. "Protection" rackets' agents (designers or their street imitators) hide behind wizard-of-oz curtains, impose stresses and suffering that everyday people experience -- that's the illegimate point of fascism. Of course fear is a very real thing, but its fomenting is illegitimate. Caused by very real people hiding behind fictional personhoods curtains.

When rule of law catches up with fascists in the end, they say, "Nothing personal, just business."
Those people's front men are in government and appear powerful only because they and media 'narrators' are paid to appear that way. I use the old Black and hippie term "hype," as in, "Don't believe the hype."

Like Trump, they run for a long time, foment profitable conflict, deflect with scapegoats, hide money from their protection rackets outside jurisdictions ("They're really coming for YOU, I'm just standing in the way&quot but honest rule of law catches up, even if it's in their old age. Rule of law caught up with old holocaust nazis, their bankers, and now him. These are the kind of agents who have no home, no jurisdictions that can touch them, so they can exist "above the law." (L=land; A=Air; W=water -- an old Roman concept still in use)

Today is the anniversary of The Panama Papers, terrabytes of records of decades of theft from whole societies. Those siphoners at finance and banking levels are name-able. They die and their payment structures, their aiders and abetters, live on as neoliberal lingo makers who keep the hierarchal divisions going, that keep the unnecessary suffering and conflict of millions going.

Fear by design. It's how hierarchies ("I'll protect you, just hold me up" ) of the dominance ladder are maintained. Those who die through that enforcement have legitimate fear. Those who foment that fear feel the illegitimate fear of getting caught.