The fascist ideology is that evil is a constant external threat, that the world would be perfect if the right people were oppressed, disenfranchised, eliminated.
It is an aggrandizement of self to the status of an all-powerful, all-perfect, unquestionable god.
It is an aggrandizement of self to the status of an all-powerful, all-perfect, unquestionable god.
It’s not a coincidence that fascism traffics and connects through mediums charged with megalomaniacal ideology.
Politics. Capitalism. Religion. Technology.
It’s a gnawing need to bend the world to your will and eliminate all “evil” impediments. To realize your own utopia.
Politics. Capitalism. Religion. Technology.
It’s a gnawing need to bend the world to your will and eliminate all “evil” impediments. To realize your own utopia.
It’s absolutely necessary for fascists to believe they’re imbued with holy purpose, a destiny sent by god or the universe or history, because that revealed knowledge allows them to never acknowledged contradictory information and legitimizes violence and blatant oppression.
All of this is, obviously, tied into white patriarchal supremacy because the mythologies that maintain them are based on revealed knowledge, religious and historical destiny, things that launder the damage and violence and oppression through a lens of righteous charges.
The ideology that animates the Right is revealed knowledge and fascism. If they can just disenfranchise dangerous voters, eliminate enemies, and be allowed unchecked power, they’d usher in a perfect society.
It’s the people who are in the way.
It’s the people who are in the way.
I wrote more about this here, how this specific idea of “progress” is inextricably linked with fascist, white supremacist, antidemocratic actions and the need for the powerful to build their utopias on the bones of the people they oppress.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-…
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