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

[haele]

60. Unless it directly affects them, 50% of Americans are too busy to notice.

And that's how conservative political and corporate leadership is happy to keep it.

Fascism ensures there's a status quo to depend on and the trains will always run on time (so long as they don't derail due to poor maintenance). And the 20 to 25% that might complain are taken care of, along with the poor and more uppity undesirables. For a couple of years, the majority of populations (especially the petite-bourgeois) in countries that go fascist are more happy for the consistency of the policies than they are about the policies themselves. Most people crave stability, even if it's horrible. Until, of course, the underlaying corruption of fascism starts to adversely affect them.

Give the majority an "other" group to blame, and they'll feed on them until the "others" appear to get too weak to be the threat, then they'll start feeding on themselves in a rush to be more "pure" to have the status and privilege they feel they deserve, as fascism always devolves into a zero-sum game based around the ruling leadership

Haele