Status Updates From End Times Fascism: And the ...

The definition they use is by Robert Paxton in The Anatomy of Fascism (2004). What fascism consists of:

1. Political behavior
2. Obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood,
3. Cults of unity, energy, and purity
4. A lot of committed nationalist militants
5. Traditional elites abandoning democratic liberties
6. Unethical pursuit of internal cleansing and external expansion.

“This book is an attempt to chart this new territory, to outline what we call the politics of end times fascism… We see it… In the unfreezing of the ice caps and the chemically frozen faces of the Rich”


Brilliant

Reading this makes one wonder if it might be preferable to remain in ignorance of how far fetched belief systems and conspiracies and cult novels and repeated slogans and rhetoric have affected minds and therefore behaviours.