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Long form, on fascism on western democracies
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Long form, on fascism on western democracies
@Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn: It's somewhat notable that while the allies DID remove some of the most egregious fascists from what was left of German civil society after the war, I'm not sure how much the Soviet Union did, and the support for AfD is strongest by far in former East Germany.
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@Inken Paper @Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn: I think they mean Germany, Federal Republic of, as in “we did that once and it went very badly for us”
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@Llwynog It has to be a continuous process, because if there's one thing that these bastards can do, it's play the long game.

But first, they need to root them out of their own parties.

Second, they need to fucking condemn shit which is currently being normalised or presented as "legitimate concerns".

Third, they need to divert significant resources into proper civics education to create a populace that is politically literate and able to spot and critically analyse their rhetoric and dog whistles.

And fourthly, there needs to be an understanding that it is an utterly illegitimate political stance, that is not to be tolerated in a society that values human rights. There need to be laws that proscribe fascist organisations. They need to be enforced, and the courts overseeing them need to kept free of the sort of creeping political influence that has caused institutional capture in the US.

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