So should we be pulling cash out right now or is that me just panicking?

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    5 days ago

    Read a history book mate. I’m using history to understand the present. Hell, Wikipedia can help you. This isn’t about shitting on individual people in this country that call themselves “liberals”. This is about understanding how liberal democracy enables the rise of fascism and why it is insufficient in stopping it.

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      4 days ago

      I’m aware of what liberalism is, and I’m not even defending it.

      What I am doing is pointing out something that I found interesting about your comment.

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        4 days ago

        Well, you can be explicit in what you found interesting then. Because what you implied was that I was focusing blame on “liberals” over the blame set on fascist themselves. There isn’t really any other way to interpret your comment.

        Fascist seek to overthrow liberal democracy. They, historically, have not done this by an outside revolutionary movement that overthrows the systems by force (think the French revolution). They instead exploit the contradictions of liberal democracy and build Fascism within its existing structures.

        All mention of “liberals” in my initial comment are in reference to the non fascist politicians that are attempting to prevent fascism but are entirely unable to do so. Not because they are fascist. But because fascism is a destruction of liberal democracy from within. It’s exploits the process of liberal democracy to take power.

        There is nothing interesting you are pointing at from my comment. You are just fundamentally not understanding what was being said.