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

[WarGamer]

114. I think there is a very real fear...

Because Authoritarians are pushing for more and more political power.

I think that's more accurate than the fascist boogeyman.

After all... the fascist definition in 2023 has been boiled down to "being against Democracy" and that's only a fraction of what being authoritarian is all about.

Fascism actually has a definition. Just like NAZI. Italy, early 20th Century... Mussolini... they called THEMSELVES Fascists.

And as you alluded to earlier, the 20th Century presented two similar and equally destructive ideologies.

The Russian Revolution unleashed Socialism, the door knocker to Communism on the world.

The reaction to the Reds was Fascism and eventually Nazism.

Frankly, both were murderous, anti-democratic regimes.

And understandably... the word fascist became a propaganda tool for the Soviets. They painted anti-fascist slogans on their tanks, on their propaganda posters... fascist would become a cover-all term for any enemy of the State.

In the 1920's in Germany, the Communist Party started Antifaschiste Aktion (ANTIFA) and it was a front operation for the Soviets, supported fully by Lenin, the Bolsheviks and Stalin.

ANTIFA spread around the world, even into the USA.

Looking back... we'd have been a lot better off if Truman and Ike had taken Pattons advice and directly rolled from Germany to Moscow in 1945.

Nazism and Communism fucked over half a century of human societal evolution.



EDIT:

I think a lot of people don't understand... the REAL STORY of WW2 wasn't Fascism vs the World...

It was Fascism vs Communism and the US took the side of the Communists until decades later when they finally defeated the Soviet Union without a shot.