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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a perverse sort of hope in that idea of fascist brain drain. Maybe it's like dysentery, if you shit long enough and don't die, eventually you get better? I don't know, but the thought of it makes me smile.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It waxes and wanes. I don't think the current environment drains out the fascism nearly so much as the Good Times Make Smug Men. These fucks will still be here when the tide turns. There's no world where fascists just stop existing after an election cycle or even a string of social and political defeats.

But we're well past the Cold War era of military psychos and reactionary intellectuals trying to peal the median American off New Deal economic policies and Civil Rights movements. The folks running the show now are the scions of generation of fascists that already won. So they're focuses far more on jerking one another off (in the case of Epstein and his peers, literally) than actually confronting opposition political movements.

Doesn't help that modern liberals have also all gone lazy and fat on the post-Cold War boom. We're definitely on the back end of this round of Empire Building.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

You're not wrong!