"Militia movement often recruits in areas where there's no high-speed internet and they don't have ambulance service, things like that. If you get people those things, they oftentimes don't have a need for the militias anymore. You can ameliorate that, I think, in those things, and that's a good long-term project, and it's part of why anti-fascism is not disconnected from other social movements."
I am related to a lot of Trump voting rural Iowans, and I don't think the lack of infrastructure is per se why they are vulnerable to fascist thinking and I don't think infrastructure is something that militias are promising. Rather what people are looking for is hope, a life narrative, drama, etc. And that's also what fascist thinking provides.
They don't want to think that it was an unfair advantage that's been righted as people become more free when men either inherited business or got good factory jobs and women had no other opportunities besides staying in town to be helpmeets for them. Instead, that way of life is gone because of nefarious plots by the Mexicans and then"globalists" and the feminists. And while more universal access to infrastructure is nice and good, if liberals want to compete against this fascist impulse, it's that sort of hope and meaning we need to provide.
Good grief, "fetishization" of free speech, eh? Thanks for confirming the fact that 'woke' libertarianism isn't libertarian at all, in the sense of defending the most key individual liberties. It sounds to me like you're simply trying to salvage some form of free market ideology in a larger context of woke authoritarianism. You folks are corporatists, not liberals or libertarians in any meaningful sense.
Fascism is when the general population walks in lockstep with the government while the government censors the media, just as it happened in every major Liberal country around the world.
When you're in the goldfish bowl and agree with the government, you wouldn't know what fascism is even if it killed your family.
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I pretty strongly disagreed with this argument:
"Militia movement often recruits in areas where there's no high-speed internet and they don't have ambulance service, things like that. If you get people those things, they oftentimes don't have a need for the militias anymore. You can ameliorate that, I think, in those things, and that's a good long-term project, and it's part of why anti-fascism is not disconnected from other social movements."
I am related to a lot of Trump voting rural Iowans, and I don't think the lack of infrastructure is per se why they are vulnerable to fascist thinking and I don't think infrastructure is something that militias are promising. Rather what people are looking for is hope, a life narrative, drama, etc. And that's also what fascist thinking provides.
They don't want to think that it was an unfair advantage that's been righted as people become more free when men either inherited business or got good factory jobs and women had no other opportunities besides staying in town to be helpmeets for them. Instead, that way of life is gone because of nefarious plots by the Mexicans and then"globalists" and the feminists. And while more universal access to infrastructure is nice and good, if liberals want to compete against this fascist impulse, it's that sort of hope and meaning we need to provide.
Not sure about the unprompted Goldberg hate. Could at least be good faith in engaging with his analysis.
Good grief, "fetishization" of free speech, eh? Thanks for confirming the fact that 'woke' libertarianism isn't libertarian at all, in the sense of defending the most key individual liberties. It sounds to me like you're simply trying to salvage some form of free market ideology in a larger context of woke authoritarianism. You folks are corporatists, not liberals or libertarians in any meaningful sense.
Fascism is when the general population walks in lockstep with the government while the government censors the media, just as it happened in every major Liberal country around the world.
When you're in the goldfish bowl and agree with the government, you wouldn't know what fascism is even if it killed your family.