Thank you @Mike_Podhorzer for writing this so that I feel slightly less insane. The US is on the verge of real, bona fide, violent fascism of the sort we gawk at in history books and, to a first approximation, our civic leaders don't seem that worried.
weekendreading.net/p/sleepwalking…
weekendreading.net/p/sleepwalking…
We are, in other words, sleepwalking our way into fascism *exactly the same way previous countries have sleepwalked their way into fascism*. Exactly. All the same beats, the same dynamics, the same rhetoric. We have learned NOTHING from history. It's just fucking amazing.
Nothing makes me want to simultaneously laugh & puke these days quite like the phrase "never again." Everyone says that in the wake of every fascist atrocity, with great solemnity, and yet we do it again. And again. We're doing it again right fucking now.
Like, did you think that when fascism came to America, it would come with a "Fascism In America" label? That it would come down to one unambiguous yes-or-no decision? That's not how it works. There's a whole book about how this: goodreads.com/book/show/9786…
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes." 
"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it —please try to believe me —unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop."
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