timberwraith on Nostr: I want to make clear that I do not buy the notion that the fascism we see is just ...

I want to make clear that I do not buy the notion that the fascism we see is just politicians manipulating the polity by distracting them with fear and bigotry.

I know these people. I was one of them when I was growing up.

The evil was there, at their core, waiting to be accessed, and it was passed from one generation to the next via community conformity and social training.

They are as culpable as the politicians who manipulate them.