So, isn't it amazing how fascism appears quietly and gradually?

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bolverk · Accepted Answer

So are you saying that Trump has suspended the Constitution?
I remember this from not to long ago from the Democrats;
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) let slip what most Democrats have been thinking for decades: Constitutional rights are problematic. Manchin told Morning Joe, “The problem we have, and really the firewall we have right now is due process. It’s all due process. So we can all say we want the same thing, but how do we get there?”
This follows hard on the heels of Democrats claiming that Americans shouldn’t have the First Amendment right to speak freely about climate change, and that Americans shouldn’t have the First Amendment right to label people by their birth sex. It also follows on the heels of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama openly stating that there is no First Amendment right to exercise your religion in your business, and both of them using their government positions to rip exercise of First Amendment rights they deem Islamophobic.

AnonAndrew · Accepted Answer

Of all the regimes in the real world that I'm aware of, fascism has never seized power quietly.

Plus in that book it wasn't quiet either. Suspending the Constitution is a big deal. After that they shot the president and machine-gunned Congress.

I'm assuming you are trying to draw parallells to real life, but there aren't really any so far. We had the same predictions during the first Trump term, and they came to naught but some idiots storming the Capitol.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

We had black shirts in masks this last decade blocking roads and rioting. Antifa fascists.

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

But it didn't appear quietly. It came in all Trump flags waving and horns blasting.

genericname85 · Answer

yeah and in todays day and age, it apparently appears as "diversity, equity and inclusion". like i've never seen such a racis, sexist and overall extremely fascist movement. it's almost like antifa trying to hide that they are fascists by calling themself "anti" fascist.

exitseven · Answer

Yes, first they said he was a untiter and then the next thing we know he was about to put his political opponent in prison and locking up some of his supporters and calling the rest of them garbage.