Half the country didn’t vote for fascism. Half the country voted for anyone who promised to lower the price of fucking groceries, danger and morals be damned.
Yes, half of the country is thick as pig shit. But they’re not all fascist to the core.
I’m trying to remember what that phrase about people who aren’t bothered about fascism is. Something like “If there are nine nazis sitting at a table and someone is okay with sitting with them then there are ten nazis sitting at the table”.
Unless that tenth person is a bit of a thickie, uneducated or was deceived into thinking the Nazis just had a mild case of right-wingness but otherwise offered solutions to their problems by constant exposure to “fair and balanced” media. Then you have nine Nazis and one fool sitting at the table.
If you’re not fighting against it and just going along, you’re still a Nazi. Not every German was walking around in Hugo boss uniforms rounding up Jews. Plenty we’re just keeping their heads down and trying to to get through the unpleasantness.
Plenty we’re just keeping their heads down and trying to to get through the unpleasantness.
And that made them Nazis?
Those who were fooled into voting Hitler were idiots. Those who didn’t weren’t. And although I intensely despite those who voted Hitler out of idiocy, as much as I despise those who voted Trump for the same reason, at the end of the day, they were and will be all victims.
The true Nazis, then and now, are those who voted Hitler and Trump fully knowing, understanding and willing what was on the menu.
Half the country didn’t vote for fascism. Half the country voted for anyone who promised to lower the price of fucking groceries, danger and morals be damned.
Yes, half of the country is thick as pig shit. But they’re not all fascist to the core.
I’m trying to remember what that phrase about people who aren’t bothered about fascism is. Something like “If there are nine nazis sitting at a table and someone is okay with sitting with them then there are ten nazis sitting at the table”.
Unless that tenth person is a bit of a thickie, uneducated or was deceived into thinking the Nazis just had a mild case of right-wingness but otherwise offered solutions to their problems by constant exposure to “fair and balanced” media. Then you have nine Nazis and one fool sitting at the table.
“I was duped” is just as bad as “I was following orders”. You don’t get to weasel your way out of responsibility for your acts.
So, 10 Nazis.
If you’re not fighting against it and just going along, you’re still a Nazi. Not every German was walking around in Hugo boss uniforms rounding up Jews. Plenty we’re just keeping their heads down and trying to to get through the unpleasantness.
And that made them Nazis?
Those who were fooled into voting Hitler were idiots. Those who didn’t weren’t. And although I intensely despite those who voted Hitler out of idiocy, as much as I despise those who voted Trump for the same reason, at the end of the day, they were and will be all victims.
The true Nazis, then and now, are those who voted Hitler and Trump fully knowing, understanding and willing what was on the menu.
See my comment above.
Does that matter anymore?
It does because at some point, those people who voted Trump will need to realize what they did and feel the shame.