• TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    It’s because Americans have been trained to think fascism is spectacular (a myth pushed by fascists themselves) so the mundane nature of everyday fascism doesn’t really affect them.

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      A lot of time and energy was spent trying to paint fascism as an inherently foreign entity that comes into their midst. They will quote that whole “holding a Bible and wearing the flag” line and still imagine it as some kind of disguise it wears and not the form it takes when it sprouts from within.