by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It’s been a struggle to get mainstream media to get to the point where it calls the “untruths” that Trump has said over the last five years what they are: lies. And, as such, I don’t have a lot of hope that MSM will ever get around to calling MAGA what it is: fascism.
The upsetting thing about all of this is, of course, the last time fascists won an election — in Germany of 1933 — there were some pretty extraordinary circumstances involved. But in the case of the United States, fascists will come to power because of one of the major parties of our undead liberal democracy would rather establish minority autocratic rule than let scary brown people and women gain any additional power.
All of this is happening, it seems, because a lot of white middle class people are terrified, in an abstract fashion, with the social changes taking place in what they feel is an alarming rate. Something about Obama winning re-election in 2012 was some sort of weird racist wake up call for people like that. And most of them can’t even articulate in any concrete terms the origin of their intense negative polarization. They would never admit that they’re racist, or misogynistic — they don’t even believe in systemic racism or sexism in the first place!
So, a lot of well intentioned conservative white people feel as though they don’t have any other option than to vote in fascist MAGA. Just from my casual conversations with my conservative relatives they are really terrified by the idea of being “canceled” — and having their life ruined — just for being conservative.
And that’s how America turns into a fascist state. Or we have a civil war. I continue to vacillate wildly in my mind between thinking we’re going to slip silently into autocracy and thinking we’re going to have a civil war.
I still honestly don’t know which one is going to happen.
