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Old 01-19-2019, 12:47 PM   #16598 (permalink)
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I think that to counter the emotional attachment to democracy, fascism would be rebranded as a true or effective form of democracy to rope in the buzzwordly.

Actually, this convo ends here. Gonna sell my propaganda talents to the White House.
I mean American fascism would probably deify democracy as it's a traditional cultural touchstone to manipulate the people with just like Blue Angels flyovers at the Super Bowl but where would be the wiggle room in that for authoritarianism? At some point you'd either have to abolish voting to maintain the regime or risk losing power in the next four years, and how do you sell abolishing voting in America? It's kind of a mindless truism that it's the bestest.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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