The left-wing podcast Know Your Enemy engages seriously with conservative thinkers. A deep-pocketed conservative foundation tried to destroy the podcast with a serious lawsuit. Which side is serious about the free exchange of ideas?
Fascism isn’t an ideology that embraces any tactic necessary.
It’s a tactic that embraces any ideology necessary.
An ideology would come with some vision for a better future. Anti-capitalists want co-ops and sustainability. Feminists want “traditionally female careers” to be respected and valued and compensated accordingly.
MAGAs? You will find such a vision conspicuously absent. A whole lot of, “my opponent wishes to ritualistically drink your child’s blood this coming Halloween.” A whole lot of CRT, and Woke, and transgenderism.
You can infer it. It’s hard to see it as a “world” because it’s purely solipsistic. “I get to do what I want, when I want. I get to dictate the behaviour and appearance of everyone around me, on pain of disappearance and/or death. I get to consume whatever I wish; I get to tell you what you may consume to match my self-deluded conception of what ‘morality’ is.” Etc.
Of course, when your philosophy is tyranny, it ends up not being what all the would-be tyrants wanted, or what they thought they wanted. But they lack the self-reflection to foresee that.
Fascism isn’t an ideology that embraces any tactic necessary.
It’s a tactic that embraces any ideology necessary.
An ideology would come with some vision for a better future. Anti-capitalists want co-ops and sustainability. Feminists want “traditionally female careers” to be respected and valued and compensated accordingly.
MAGAs? You will find such a vision conspicuously absent. A whole lot of, “my opponent wishes to ritualistically drink your child’s blood this coming Halloween.” A whole lot of CRT, and Woke, and transgenderism.
But not a single glimpse of the world they want.
You can infer it. It’s hard to see it as a “world” because it’s purely solipsistic. “I get to do what I want, when I want. I get to dictate the behaviour and appearance of everyone around me, on pain of disappearance and/or death. I get to consume whatever I wish; I get to tell you what you may consume to match my self-deluded conception of what ‘morality’ is.” Etc.
Of course, when your philosophy is tyranny, it ends up not being what all the would-be tyrants wanted, or what they thought they wanted. But they lack the self-reflection to foresee that.