Problem is that the left, even just a little left, leads to a slippery slope to more taxes. Many elites don't like fascism, but they _really_ don't like paying higher taxes.
Agree it seems unlikely. I think unless reporters themselves are sitting in prison they will learn absolutely nothing. Same for representatives America's other institutions. Short of that they will all wave this away as the fault of one man and in no way indicative of the rest of the party.
We’re certainly seeing in real time what *actual threats* to personal and academic freedoms from the right are in practice, vs. the theoretical threats Erik Ericksons and David Brookses once imagined coming from the left.
I think the main problem is that the "left" is associated with young women with blue hair or brown people, and those are obviously scarier to a university trustee or high-profile journalist than the masked men who might disappear you to a foreign country for having the wrong opinion.
This week has been eye opening; plenty of folks I like and follow on here also consider the left to be “online left personality with large following who is either a shit poster, tankie, M-L, or all of the above”. I’m like ok, and what impact do they have on electoral politics today?
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All history indicates that the state is always blind on the right and terrified of the left, even after fascism
Just ask Germans
It’s just easier to write articles about the danger of “socialism” than it is to face the fears of fascism.
I’m not advocating for reciprocal threats from the left.
(Franz von Papen, 30th of January, 1933)