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The danger of a rise in facism
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:05 am
by newcastle
An interest NY Times op ed from Madeline Albright, former US secretary of state.
Not the usual critique of Trump but a reasoned analysis of where he's leading US and why demagogues, dictators and - yes - facism world wide are gaining strength by using his example.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opin ... UQodYJ8Aww
Re: The danger of a rise in facism
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:40 am
by Dusak
As the old saying goes, you lead by example.
Re: The danger of a rise in facism
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:08 pm
by Major Thom
think you may be perfectly correct on this.
Re: The danger of a rise in facism
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 3:50 pm
by Hafiz
Albright was an Austrian Jew who got out before being gassed - you wonder whether the new western urban middle class care much about anything let alone have the imagination or intelligence to avoid any new Fascism. I know they don't. It should be an interesting and ugly next 20 years.
One thing you can rely upon as did Sir Oswald Mosley Bt, and the 10/12 Dukes that supported him is that the upper class will be powerful in harnessing working class and lower middle class anger and racism - and turn it to their advantage - Brexit. The mob is easy to manipulate - because they are stupid.