How is this different from wealthy executives voting for any candidate who promises them leniency with regard to regulations, competition, and corporate taxation?
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I think you’re perhaps forgetting Pinochet in Chile, the limited fascism of Berlusconi*, Franco in Spain, Salazar in Portugal, the military junta in South Korea that was eventually overturned by the middle classes, and doubtless others I don’t know about. Then there’s Erdogan’s Turkey, Bahrein, and I’m not sure how you classify Saudi Arabia. I don’t think they are distinct except that they happen at different times in different countries; more of a spectrum.
I think Fascism is always there, sometimes rising and sometimes falling, hence my comment about it not being “neo-”. And eventually if it takes hold long enough we know who will get blamed for everything, which is one reason why constant vigilance is needed.
Please don’t take this as criticism; it’s just my opinion.
*Without the EU I think he’d have gone full Musso, which is presumably the scenario that appealed to some of the Leave politicians in the UK.
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I assumed that the identity mix-up was just that.
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I agree with you on the executives who care more for their own interests than they do about the country or it’s citizens. On the good side, they are a tiny percentage of the population. On the other hand, money is now political speech.
As I’ve noted elsewhere, my pseudonym comes from my days as a creator on the Discworld MUD. I’d be quite happy to pick this up again in such a situation. There are days when I very much miss my creator workshop inside a giant tree filled with gadgets that I coded. (Some of which were actually there, although many were just very rough prototypes or existed only in the room description.)
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dunno, Orbán and Kaczyński* are rather successful to create autocratic states within the EU, and the French state of emergency was declared in December 2015 and since then not lifted. it is not a huge problem to create personal pocket fiefdoms in Europe.
* even as a grey eminence without official government function
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Relevant to felon disenfranchisement: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/virginia-felon-disenfranchisement/480072/
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