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Yeah I'm kinda looking back on 20th century fascists and thinking, "God, you think someone would have pointed out just how interminably stupid these people were."
It's the same predictable shit. There isn't an 'alt-right'. This is what fascists are. It's what they've always been. Stupid scared children who look for an authoritarian daddy and a punching bag to safely beat on.
Assuming people haven't gotten particularly dumber over the years (hardware, not software-wise), how would 'the usual suspects' prevent some demagogue to use the weakest and more stupid members of society against their own interests, condemning also their souls in the process? Italy is at it again, so is Germany, and there are more than enough whiffs of racism and violence in the UK and France too. Americans might just be the worst of the Europeans, but we're mostly headed in the same direction, so... how can we make sure this never happens again in the West, or at least not as often?