Well, the Italians invented fascism, so why not get in on 2.0? Note the Nazi salute in the audience—and the reaction: “Oops—I forgot, don’t bust that out yet!”
The whole fucking world is going fascist. It’s not “populism,” it’s fascism 2.0. In the US, in Europe, in Asia, in South America—the tide is going hard right. Not conservative—the “center-left” parties are already living there, pushing the right further to the right—but fascist. Call it what it is.
We all need to get behind a real populism, a Sanders or Corbyn or any of the left parties in Europe. Varoufakis has the right idea, among many others. The choice can’t be failed neoliberalism or fascism. Fascism will win—give it all a couple of shocks (a war might do it; a real terror attack easily could; a mass financial crisis and depression easily could), and the real knives will come out. We’ve been here before.
But we don’t learn, which is why the species is in the fix it’s in. We need to be ending carbon yesterday, getting rid of nukes, battling emergent diseases, building a new line of antibiotics, eradicating poverty, sharing the wealth...but fuck that: let’s all kill each other.
The whole fucking world is going fascist. It’s not “populism,” it’s fascism 2.0. In the US, in Europe, in Asia, in South America—the tide is going hard right. Not conservative—the “center-left” parties are already living there, pushing the right further to the right—but fascist. Call it what it is.
We all need to get behind a real populism, a Sanders or Corbyn or any of the left parties in Europe. Varoufakis has the right idea, among many others. The choice can’t be failed neoliberalism or fascism. Fascism will win—give it all a couple of shocks (a war might do it; a real terror attack easily could; a mass financial crisis and depression easily could), and the real knives will come out. We’ve been here before.
But we don’t learn, which is why the species is in the fix it’s in. We need to be ending carbon yesterday, getting rid of nukes, battling emergent diseases, building a new line of antibiotics, eradicating poverty, sharing the wealth...but fuck that: let’s all kill each other.