Why American Fascism Is On The Rise
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- It should be common knowledge that the troubling undercurrent of outright fascism has been becoming more and more mainstream over recent years. With new fascist and Neo-nazi groups popping up all the time, and with their rhetoric becoming ever more grotesque and anti-human, I think it's important we understand what's going on.
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Didn’t this also happen when you called out the CIA for being Terrorists?
Seems like fascists hate it when *others* call them fascist
@kellaborate RL, I wish I knew. It seems like the vague “guidelines” are applied completely at random. Other channels can cover this stuff just fine and not get demonetized. It’s very frustrating.
Fascism and Communism are two faces of the same coin.
Fascism is on the rise because human beings no longer recognise human decency & self respect & are sooo dense they don't understand antifa is an abbreviation of antifascism.
"People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff dictatorships are made of" -Franklin D. Roosevelt
Search . ' American Failed Its Democracy . '
Yeah especially with how bad inflation has been recently when the economy suffers people are driven towards the extremes people are being pushed more towards socialism and fascism it’s sad.
Yes, you're right. Poor people are scary. Somebody should stop them.
hilariously ironic coming from FDR
@@lordrhus7218 lol yeah
As a German I want to add a perspectives:
My grandparents have been Nazis, of the flag waving, cheering sort. Those average people that joined the ranks at the sides of the streets, buying into the "Make Germany great again" choir voting NSDAP. "Hey they were fairly elected". It's the support of those average people giving those movements and regimes power. It's not the solitary prominent figures in the first rank. Hitler and Goebbels alone wouldn't have been able to destroy Europe alone.
When my grandparents noticed/woke up it was to late, a system of control established, democracy dismantled, war at hand.
(Using us/we as "global mankind")
The more time passes since WW2 we tend to forget this. There is this "fascists = Nazis in Germany and Italy = some strange dudes in black uniform and leather coat" picture as if those are 'aliens' that somehow fall onto us and force us into this. That's wrong. It's us giving in to propaganda and simple solutions that rely on segregation and imagined superiority of an "us versus them".
germans did replaced adolfs left with the new left
nothing did change,you are in many ways worse than your grandparents
what they did support to be done to others you are supporting to be done to your people
but in many more ways germans are today more lost than they have been 80 years ago
@@curocurovic6675 so being against fascism is worst than the murder and persecution of millions? Found the fascist
@@polin1710
Alow me a question .From the slavic point of view ..what is the difference between the new left and the adolf's left
both follow crazy ideologies ..want to eliminate populations that are ideologically inconvenient to exist
The only real difference between germans 80 years ago and germans today is that they did want 80 years ago to eliminate only Slavic people(and some others )...today they want to dismantle many more populations ,including Slavic people and their own people ..to follow a ideology that is not even their own
@@curocurovic6675 you don't know what leftism is
ur right Im of the common man and I support the far right controling everything
Americans: "We champion freedom, individuality and democracy"
Also Americans: *Establish a cult of personality on someone, want to dictate what others do and try to impose a theocracy*
That’s exactly it. And now we have less freedom because you’ll offended the broken and mentally and emotional weak. Immature I just live life without caring of other opinions of me
Yeah you guys do champion freedom individuality and democracy, God bless Jesus.
Individualism cannot be a fascist and be an individualist. Fascism is collectivist . Like Hitler he removed the Constitution, i’m not will try to disarm their citizens. That’s the first thing I have to do any fascist or any tyrannical government who’s trying to remove firearms?
@KingAries85 hey freedom boy, shouldn't you be at work obeying your boss? 😂
"I've seen the ugliest, dirtiest part of humanity . . ." and liked it so much chose to become the ugliest, dirtiest part of humanity.
Yup. He's a tool.
First they came for the communists,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics
And I didn't speak up because I was a protestant.
Then they came for the protestants,
And there was no one left to speak out for me.
-Martin Niemoller
History repeats itself.
I genuinely hope that this will be the case so once the wannabe fashboys realize how much they've fucked up there will be nobody left to save them. If we're going down you're all going down with us
It's like we're watching history repeat itself in agonizing slow motion. These maga zombies and the influence of their leaders have on their own and other countries have no idea what they're asking for. Imo, it's going to get really bad.
@@peebay3515 Taking a bath with a toaster is the first step.
@@rabbitbannerdestroyerofgri7889 Alright did that, now what?
@@peebay3515 Now try again, but this time make sure the toaster is plugged in and turned on.
Also use more toasters and other electrical appliances. Again, make sure they are all plugged in and turned on.
Americans complaining about "the great replacement" when their entire history is based on ethnic cleansing is top notch irony
Not really, Americans built that country.
It’s their homeland.
@@davidevans916 If I recall correctly the North American continent was the home to various different countries or nations of indigenous people before white settler colonizers had arrived there. I wonder what happened to all these indigenous people who inhabited the North American continent? Surely it wasn't some kind of systematic great replacement right? Like some kind of genocide?
@@CS88528 and? Thats a GREAT reason for mass genocide and replacement, yeah
@@CS88528 So much love for humans? You're not modern so we know what is best for you? Wow... What a good guy...
@@CS88528 It's not like, that the modern society is accountabel for all the destruction in the world...
It's simple. Cowards kick down because punching up gets you punched back but kicking someone on the ground is safe.
As a Believer in Christ, I'm deeply concerned and saddened how Christians embraced Trump due his support for "family values" and he will call America to repentance. They overlook his evilness and vouch for him. No Pastor, Priest, Prophet, or prominent Evangelical don't speak out against Trump evil and January 6. They are quick to turn the table and call upon the Judgement of God against President Biden, Democrats, Pro Choicers and especially those in the LGBTQ community. 😥
Bro how can you be a believer in christ? Your bias is immense.
You’re shocked when your pastor calls out murderers and sodomites for being sinful? Are you sure you read the same book that I did?
@@SkitGamingIm pretty sure they’re talking about the hypocrisy of speaking out against everyone EXCEPT trump
“Libral christian” lol
Lol go take your meds
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
What this video shows is very similar to this quote. Grandparents and parents of that very same people, fought against Fash in WWII, can’t believe they are now supporting that kind of thinking.
@@amberbrandenburg4175 Found the anti masker Karen
@@user-oi6ec8ge4c I second this from the Balkans, there are millions of us that despise imperialism and what it has done not only in the Balkans, but around the entire world.
@@amberbrandenburg4175 cringe
@@amberbrandenburg4175 Lol, thinks Democrats are "leftist"... xD xD xD You were right @X.
Aka, when Neoliberal capitalist corporatism = "left" xD xD *facepalm*
@@amberbrandenburg4175 Tell us you watch Tim Pool without actually saying so
just for perspective, i grew up in rural ohio in a very very conservative area and i was LITERALLY taught the great replacement theory as a 4th grader. it is ingrained.
Ahhh, GROOMING, is supposed to be hurting our children, but not when it's White Supremacy-based. I'm glad you were able to think for yourself.
Huh? In textbooks?
Thats because it's true
As an Australian this makes me very sad
Didn’t y’all construct internment camps to imprison people without trial during COVID?
@@SkitGaming What the fuck are you talking about
@@SkitGaming Least crazy right wing conspiracy
Please save us
As a heart of iron 4 player. I know the reason why fascism is rising is 1 of 2.
1. Someone else is boosting the popularity of the fascist parties.
2. The current government is progressing the wrong national focus tree. Which means too late!
El Salvador at it again.
It's obviously because the US has failed it's liberal economy tree
This is what happens when you turn nonhistorical AI off on ironman mode.
Dang it I tell ya those japanese players always bugging me
"it's all the brits for becaming facist and begining a war agains the french's"
Why wouldnt it be? The gap between the rich and poor hasnt been this wide since the Gilded Age, more and more people are just one tragedy away from financial disaster, were all debt slaves, the healthcare system is garbage and everyone is sick, and now on top of all of this the treats we were promised in exchange for giving up any real political power or agency are now hit with a supply crisis that wont be fixed anytime soon. Not even gonna get into looming climate collapse, creating a new disaster almost monthly.
Material conditions are ripe for political turbulence and upheaval; and there is no credible alternate option than the Weimar Republic that is the embarrassing Democratic Party doing photo ops with Dick Cheney.
Consider: Socialism.
@@DrewTNaylor i would, if there was a socialist movement in this country that had even an ounce of real power. Gonna take a while, meanwhile fascism will only get more popular as conditions decline, and they actually have real political power.
@@asare240 Oh, that's a good point.
@Eugene V Dabs They get mad they're getting left behind, and their answer? Let's vote for more of the same!
@@asare240 The Cuban revolution started with 82 people
Unfortunately, It's not only America. Other countries are moving to right-wing fascism too. It's mind boggling.
Based.
Not not mind boggling people don’t want what liberals are selling go cry about it and respect “democracy”
@@cross8215BASED ON DEEZ NUTS BAHAHHWHAHAHW 😂😂😂
@@morbidhime based on deez nuts going across your face
Italy taking another big L, even by European standards
That's why knowledge and education is so important.
I feel a certain desperation realizing this kind of thing. It is not only happening in the US though. In Brazil we are going to have an even greater issue, with American companies such as Twitter being an integral part to that
Fuck Bolsonaro. Stay strong, friend
From what I've seen, a lot of right wing leaders in other countries started copying Trump and fringe far right groups started to capitalize it because they realized culture war panic is the easiest way to build loyalty no matter how corrupt your actual politics are, which was premise of Nazi Germany's own. Thats what I see happening in Brazil and the UK.
@@Isaaxz123 Conservatism is.
@@user-oi6ec8ge4c I see him closer to Ron DeSantes. He's more openly fascist than Trump himself was, wanting to create his own independent paramilitary and making it legal to run over protestors.
In Argentina we have the libertarians who of course are full of admirers of the dictatorship and of course have a cult of personality while claiming to be educated
"Our families are starving" how right you are, you should be angry about that but you're facing the anger in the wrong direction
The right spreads false consciousness and corporate libs refuse to counter it.
He went right to blaming face masks right before that video was stopped. As if that has remotely anything to do with why he's suffering.
Yep, its wild how some people who have lost their jobs love to blame the "illegals" for stealing their "jobs", its partially true as in corporations are hiring "illegals" as they are cheaper to employee.
"Let owners of businesses do what they need to do to feed their families."
So, continue to let Bezos, the Waltons, Musk, and the rest of the ghouls make record profits while their workers get screwed? Somehow, I think he embraces that "dark side of humanity" than he lets on if he's more concerned about business owners instead of the employees who are one financial hiccup away from bankruptcy and disaster.
@@Moonayyy it's all about propaganda.
Corperations are suposed to be their salvation. Rich elites are the new royalty and rolemodels to aspire to.
Always kick down. They are the source of your missery.
People who aren't taught history NEVER even have to forget it to repeat history's mistakes.
Which is part of why right wing officials are working so hard to sanitize history. Replacing anything that dares threaten their narratives with propaganda in the name of "anti-CRT" and other inane buzzwords.
That’s a problem for everyone, we need to prioritize history more everywhere
Both of you are midwits that don't even realize you are no different than the supposed propagandized people you feel better than. You only care about history when it's the system-approved history of the state you live under.
Maybe tell leftist communists to read history aswell
Yea and politicians don't seem to understand
We need to foster caring values, education and critical history knowledge to avoid repeating horrors.
When you say Education,
The right is trying to break our education system by Home schooling. Period
That’s what the hippies thought. Look at their children today.
You’re right
The extreme polarization of the two sides of american politics is a really big problem in the US. When you vote for one side, you're cosidered a gay communist, when you vote for the other, a Nazi. So you gotta choose between those two sides, while the average american, is none of both. Huge part of that is the two party system in the US. Here in Germany, there will almost always be a party, which is in the best of your interests. New parties can always arise and unpopular ones can always die out. Here, its not an eternal battle between two parties. Here, politics can always change. Only 5% of germans have to vote for one party, so that it enters the parliament, and gets heard by others. Here, a really wide range of opinions are always discussed, and not just one vs the other. I really hope the US can do something similar and adopt a new system similar to germany's, cause honstly, i think our current political system in germany is great. Definitely a lot better than a two party system. The nice thing is also, that different parties with different opinions actually have to work together here, to form a majority. This way, they have to listen to people with other opinions and work together. Like that, the people also get a bit of everything. For a long time even, the rather conservative party of germany worked hands in hands with the Social Democratic party of Germany. Left working together with right. Something unimaginable im the US. What might surprise a few people is that Merkel was actually the head of the more right wing party. Altough she herself made it a bit more left tbh. Anyways, i just hope the US will finally turm away from that two party system and bring the people together again, so there wont be a civil war there. I really respect the US, but sadly, its evolving into the wrong direction currently. I myself got family there, so I really just hope this gets resolved peacefully.
This hits harder when hearing about all the book bans lately.
What books were banned?
@@Rob-- Well, 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 among others.
@@Rob-- just gay sex and tranny books, no loss
@@mattestethe irony of 1984 being banned and crazy how i haven't really heard of this stuff
@@matteste
Two of my favorite books.
Hi. I am writing this post from Europe, more precisely from Croatia.
I must say that I am very afraid on situation that is currently happening in the US.
I believe that fascism i a result of a constant degradation of the school system in America. This degradation caused that majority of people of the most powerful force on Earth cannot analyze any data that they receive in a daily life. If you compare a classic republican from 90's and todays publican you would notice that difference is huge.
Todays republican thinks that Putin is a leader of new world, 90s republican would laugh on that.
I met a significant amount of Americans here in Europe and talked to them. Honestly, I couldn't believe how stupid they are, completely unaware of the world they live in. I was terrified because, at the end of the day, these brutally ignorant people are voters in the most powerful country in the world. If US goes far let or far right all planed is doomed.
@jurybunn4051 I thought that good old Hrvatska had it's own considerable amount of fascists. And, it is a former part of Yugoslavia, which was supposed to have a pretty good education system.
Sooo... Does the education system acttually destroy fascism? Or, are the root much deeper than we realise?
In Nazi-germany they use "Gleichschaltung" to make everyone a Nazi. It was a process where the eductaion was focused around the fascist ideologie. This caused an insane problem after WW2 since the allies needed to denazify everyone, which was very dificult.
Basically, Education is a huge tool. If not maintained it causes to rust and become worse, until it is useless. This is the point where extremism rises and the world slides into tough times again.
Mass shootings on the rise
There have been more than 630 mass shootings across the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed. Their figures include shootings that happen in homes and in public places For each of the last three years there have been more than 600 mass shootings - almost two a day on average.
"To reduce the power of the people whose ancestors who lived here"
Said Tucker with zero hint of irony.
Native American rights are a serious blind spot- even among “racial justice” people. We can’t turn back the clock but we can treat them better now and in the future.
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The white colonist families have had way too much power over others, losing that privy feels like oppression to them. They have no concept of real oppression, and fear it because they see other people doing that to them if they lose.
The U.S. only became a superpower due to Europeans. no one wanted to immigrate here until the 1800s. until then it was a risky place. a big jungle more like
@@alexmurrow7132 gee whiz that's a lot to read. if you have to bring up so many talking points to try and subvert an ideology maybe it's time you look at your own and wonder why it needs so much proving and didn't work the first time.
USA: *props up fascist regimes and dictatorships around the world for a century in the name of profit*
**american fascism appears**
USA: *surprised pikachu face*
This Neo-Liberal government has antifa as it's political street-soldiers as well, so I don't understand what point you're trying to make.
@@kingfred3755 Of course you don't.
@@zefft.f4010 what did the guy with the same name as me say
@@Fred_the_1996 That he didn't get my point and something about ANTIFA being footsoldiers of international jewry or some such nonsense.
They Created a Monster called "Operation Condor"
And decades later they started to cry AmErICaN FaSCism iS TakInG Out OuR BeLOveD SocIeTy DEmoCraCY!!!! OOHH Naaaw.
Fascism has never worked and every country that followed it has paid a big price in the end. Spain was the most successful. I was there when I was young. Franco was their dictator. He won his revolution in the 1930s. I was there in the early seventies. They had machine gun nests on street corners at that time. Not to protect the citizens but to protect the government from the citizens. In the end the economy crashed. Entire towns were abandoned. Spain was a big vacation area because of climate and beaches that was much lower cost then other places in Europe but no one came after awhile. It took the years to rebuild. Looking at other fascist countries it was usually much worse. From Cambodia to Germany it was a disaster. When you start going against education your country is doomed. It is the reason our founding fathers tried to make a free education system for all in this country. They knew a free democracy requires educated people.
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This video made me realise something extremely important - the real reason this is happening is because they are anxious and filled with fear and no one is listening except demagogues and talking heads on fox news telling them to get more afraid. We need to find a way to make them feel heard and relieve the pressure and frustration.
Sure because your side will totally be okay with letting the right have a voice of course. Your people are evil and have no restraint in restricting mine and show it time and time again. You hate us and in basically every communist country ever your people have imprisoned, enslaved, or killed mine so we don't expect it to be any different now. I know i sound like a nat soc or a white supremacist right now but sometimes a little verbal agression is needed. You are correct about fear, we fear that you will take our voice away even more and that you will see victory and get your way to do atrocious things. But you are incorrect about the "find a way to relieve the pressure stuff" we're sick of listening to your lies. You and me both know neither side will settle for anything less than total victory. Anyway what im trying to say is you aren't gonna take the rebellious rage away from this generation/ movement. You can laugh as you always do and joke that me and my conservative brothers aren't even adults yet (while you guys are from the exact same generation for the most part yet claim that communism is great) and that we are "chuds" or whatever that word is that your out of shape reddit comrades throw around. That age thing is only partially true, and at best you have like what? 6 years before we are full grown so when you say stuff like that all you are doing is making noise. Im sorry that it has to be this way my friend i truly am but like i said, somebody is losing the fight for dominance in this country. We will defend our home to the death should need be. Good day to you brother/ sister. I hope that you will see the wrong in your ways and join us but if not then i wish for your best. Other than that stay healthy and happy because every day is a blessing and a chance to improve.
Def. People who are economically secure are far less likely to become political extremists. It just seems so ironic that their anger is directed at completely the wrong target. It's sad how the cold War has left the US branding any left wing policies designed for the benefit of the people as communist which will destroy America. So fascinating some of the videos of Americans moving abroad and realising the enormous benefits and security that healthcare and workers rights brings and that it doesn't equate to a totalitarian communist regime.
I don't know how to do that, because they're literally the putting a stick in your own spokes meme. The demagogues and talking heads keep causing all their problems, but they just keep supporting them.
Why do I see 4 replies on YT but when i click your comment I csn't see any? Censorship much?
@@johndawson6057 that IS weird. What's going on?
I really hate that most fascists' consider themselves patriots. A true patriot would want to see their home country strive to become better than it was rather than holding the country, that they claim to love, back. A patriot should be the first person to call out the wrong doings of their country so that they can fix it and help make their country the best that it can be.
The irony is,
They do strive to become "better" but to them "Better" means White
They do call out wrong doings, sadly what they consided wrong is any human that has a skin tone that isn't white
They're lying to you about what's really going on.
@@Chrome-uc3fw That sounds like a pretty racist statement- do you hate whites?
@@Chrome-uc3fw that's the line they use, but even among the "Mature, white family man, evangelical gentleman of the entrepreneurial persuasion" life expectancy and quality of life is plummeting. they are panicking, and the only empirical fix is in the hand of the communists. to fix the system is to capitulate to the solution of their blood enemies. and as they often say "I'd rather die standing, than live kneeling"
Well done man great video and very informative, Keep up the good work 👍👍👍
January 6th was a cross between 'The Night of the Long Knives' and the burning of the Whitehouse.
"I did not create fascism, I took it from the unconscious of the Italians."
-Benito Mussolini
"Race is a feeling, not a reality [...] nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. National pride has no need for the delirium of race".
-Benito Mussolini (evidently, not racist)
@Brutally Goofy Buddha yes see the word evident means that the evidence clearly suggest the point. Yet you have no evidence whatsoever that I only study history for personal bias. It is however evident that you haven’t studied history enough because Mussolini was not a “Notsee” or their real name National Socialist. Mussolini was a Fascist which is a different political ideology which arose from the Italian syndicalist movement as opposed to National Socialism which arose from one German man’s anti-Semitic interpretation of socialism. The idea that Fascism and National Socialism are one ideology is an idea from high school history classes because it’s easier just to put the two ideologies together rather than study the differences. So you can baselessly accuse me of personal bias all you like, it’s obvious you haven’t studied this area of history very closely.
@Brutally Goofy Buddha this is a lovely rant about how you know so much yet once again no real evidence is provided. An argument from authority isn’t a real argument. I also find it very funny you think that Hitler being classed as a socialist is repugnant and amusing, like he would somehow downgrade the same group of people who include Stalin, Lenin, Mao, and Pol Pot. Socialism is a historically destructive ideology in all forms. If you knew so much about the left as you say you do then you might understand the very real and important differences between National Socialism (a term I see you don’t like using despite it being more accurate) and Fascism. The National Socialists of Germany held extensive control over the economy and embarked on vast spending programs. I’ll agree that they weren’t Marxists nor extremely ideologically socialist as they focused more on race and militarism however their economic policies can’t be called anything other than Socialistic.
@@hojc4508 Again, fascism doesn't have to be about race (Even though Mussolini did pass a policy in 1938 called "The Manifesto of Race" which took away the rights of racial minorities.) It's more about what puts "Us" whatever that demographic happens to be at the time (Usually a white demographic) at the top of any hierarchy they are in. Racism and totalitarianism are just tools to achieve that goal. That's why modern fascists use Capitalism since it can be tinkered with to get them the same results.
@@Dis_Dis Tell me you haven’t read the Fascist Manifeso or any other early work of fascism without telling me you haven’t read the Fascist Manifeso or any other early work of fascism. Fascism is a philosophy that the goal of life is to contribute to history through dedication to family, community, and country. Fascism has been demonised despite Mussolini’s Italy, (the only fascist state other then the Italian Regency of Carnaro) not having the massive number of political deaths which Germany and the USSR had under similar political disarray and totalitarian governments.
The convergence of declining living standards under neo-liberalism, an aggrieved portion of the dominant ethno-cultural group feeling existentially threatened by evolving social norms, and a culmination of decades of radicalization by profit driven media platforms have brought us to this point. Which is to say that US Democracy was in crisis long before fascism began entering in to mainstream politics over the last 5-10 years.
Capitalism eats democracy in the end.
So is fascism a byproduct of a failing democracy, or a side effect of machines takin their jerbs?
Bingo.
@@jarednthomas Whenever people are suffering be it from a failing democracy or a a country losing a big war. Fasicm is waiting in the shadows to pounce. In a country where people are employed, making a good amount of money, living comfortable lives and corporations don't rule everything Fasicm can't thrive. The desperate, deluded and con men turn to Fasicm.
@@jarednthomas Fascism as a product of a failing democracy is good way of putting it. As to 'taking our jerbs', when the dominant ethno-cultural group is increasingly being subjected to the same sorts of economic deprivation that's been the lived reality of marginalized groups throughout the history of a country like the United States, well it's a recipe for the widespread feelings of alienation and resentment that provide the fuel for fascism.
Thanks for this.
Subscribed.
I love this video, but after watching more recent uploads I'm so happy we got over the snapping transition sound.
The more you pay attention the more you realize we are absolutely screwed
Yes. Hostility against the people who do know.
And a lot of people who can't accept an Uncomfortable Truth.
"You don't fight fascism because you're gonna win, you fight it because it is fascism" -Some CZcams comment I read
Reminders to the left:
•The corrupt always utilizes underhanded tactics to remove the power from the masses
•The corrupt always twist narrative and want to start divisions think of Mc Carthy, red scare, etc for instance.
•The corrupt almost-aways never deliever on their promises
Also, if you want more information on various tactics they would use. Look up psychological warfare, Sun Tzu the art of war, and the book on how to destroy a government by a former agent? (I forgot the author and the book, sorry)
Weve been screwed ever since Biden got into office
@@youraveragetanker1745 did you even watch the vid? These problems were around way before Biden
Honestly the Dump indictment has me kinda nervous. People tend to forget but Hitler's first march failed and ended with him in jail
Hitler tried to burn down parliament. That's why he went to jail. Pretty much a more violent Jan 6.
Trump is not comparable to hitler. Trump is actually a good guy
This presentation is similar to Hitler's Germany in WWII in
what he did to the Jews and other minorities.
I’m ashamed to see fellow Marines taking part in the riot let alone bearing the EGA openly. Awful
As a historical perspective, people are always susceptible to doing something stupid (like giving their power to dictators) when they perceive their present/future situation being worse than their past. Right now there is a huge sense of nostalgia about the past and desperation about the present. Work is awful. Our cultural heroes (Elon Musk, Trump, Bezos, etc) are pretty much on the doorstep of being idiots, the media is untrustworthy and there is a constant stream of negativity from social media the likes of which has never been seen.
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So it took an idiot to make it possible for humans to physically expand off our planet and explore space? Whatever . . .
Bro thinks elon the one making the rockets. Bro cant even tell his head from his ass all he does is uses his unfairly obtained money to fund selfish research for himself to take credit. He doesnt really care about humanity all he wants are profits.
@@tonyduncan9852 funny, I haven’t heard about anybody stepping on mars.
@@savary5050 You won't have heard because space intervenes. In space no-one can hear you scream.
It’s gotten bad. I’m currently in he military and they had to give us PowerPoint classes on why it’s bad to be racist and extremist. Failure of the parents who raised them imo. At least the military is trying to get rid of them though
The anti fascists are the real fascists. The anti racists are the real racists. That PowerPoint is propoganda to divide us.
Have military bases turned off Fox propaganda?
@@pamelamccall5653 most recently thing I remember is them banning the flying of the confederate flag
@@kilikdudley You're delusional.
Not always the parents though. My friend has gone far right of his own accord, and is even openly homophobic, even though his own father is gay. His father is great, btw.
Excellent content! One suggestion: there is some music playing in the background of your videos that makes listeners drowsy. Keep up the good work, but turn the snooze fest music down so we can make it through to the end, since there is no way we can turn just the volume of 'the music' down and only hear you.
I joined the military because my parents left me no choice. Before I had a chance to take a life, I left before my term was up. I walked away, and swore that I wouldn’t pick up a weapon again, because I value all life. Being there was never my option in the first place.
That said; I am not opposed to self defense. I know I may need to take up arms against a fascist revolution. If there is to be a revolution, let us build an equitable society in which the working class owns the means of production and all unnecessary hierarchies are abolished. I’m here to support and build back a world where we can all benefit.
Fight the fascists, no matter what ✊🏼⬛️🟥
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I: Indeed ✊
The workers and anti-fascists shouldn't be opposed to self defense in general. They are the only ones who can stop fascism. Never let yourself get disarmed.
Greetings from Germany. Hopefully the American working class can do what the german one couldn't.
@@theredjoker8857 Just to be clear, ALL Americans should oppose fascism, working class or not.
@@PKMNFan4664 Yes but the workers are the only ones who can stop it. One can't fight fascism without fighting capitalism because that is its source. Anyone opposed to a working class uprising against fascism and therefore capitalism will find himself on the fascist side without even being a convinced fascist.
To my non POC who stand against Facism and speak out against it, I personally thank you as a man of color🙌🏾🙌🏾.
“Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.”
You know what, actually, it seems that they don’t care. They know it, they just want power, so be ready for it if you want to protect your freedom.
*Bingo!*
Took you long enough...
with the education of the average american being so low, that obvious disinfo like "fascism is a left wing political movement" became somewhat mainstream in the past 5 years, I wouldn't assume that a lot of people actually understand history, which is part of the problem
Like time was a republic and now turns to Emperor a dictator
@@Brandonhayhew Roman Emperors where not fascists....
@@CrazyKraut20 fascism does has similarities to dictatorship. Rome turned to dictator when their republic was falling apart
I'm currently reading a book about the history of capitalism, and there is a chapter that links the emergence of European fascism and eventually WW2 to the great depression that started 1929 and affected the whole world. The book goes on describing how wealth inequality and private household debt quote (I believe) have reached a similar level to before 1929, hinting that a similar dynamic might be triggered again.
What’s the name of the book I’d love to read it
I second that, I’d look to read this book. Given that I’m currently reading American Marxism; it’ll be a good contrast
@@Teshaar It's called "The victory of capital. How wealth came into the world: The story of growth, money, and crises." by Ulrike Herrmann. But it's a German book and it seems there is no English translation of it.
hOW MANY MILLIONAIRES STARTED FROM NOTHING???????????The magna carta is where the change to our society started, allowing freedom of ideas and other areas, the insurance company, Lloyds started because of the magna carta.
Nationalism worked so good the people of Germany started inventing technology on a new level because they had so much time and money they didnt know what else to do... Work together and shit gets done argue and blame and everything burns down.
I live in the UK, and I am horrified by what's happening in American politics. The massive divide between the parties, the absolute absence of any form of cooperation, And the extremism on the right.
We don't have that here, yet, our two main parties are really not separated by anything other than personalities, their policies are so similar you'd need a wafer to put them apart
However, what is scary, is that what happens in America tends to happen here 5 to 10 years later. We have a different electoral system, and there is nobody querying that it's not fair, so hopefully we won't have a 'stop the steal' movement.
I just hope we don't end up with so polarised a political system that cooperation is unthinkable. It's very sad.
I'm horrified what's happening in British media to be honest. It's exactly the same thing, just maybe a few years behind.
Headlines like "Another 40 bludging illegals arrive". The Tori's are allowed to spout any hateful crap they want and the media absolutely mollycoddles them.
If you think it's not bad in ol' Blighty, you need to pull your head out of the sand.
This is a really amazing video. Good job ❤
American "Patriots" waving the Confederate flag is the ultimate form of irony.
I would call them traitors
Those were actors trying to fool people- the insurrection was a hoax. We have them all on video- like Ray Epps- organizer and inciter- not charged- John Sullivan of BLM who was wearing a MAGA cap inciting violence inside the Capitol--part of the Babbitt incident 'team'- can't wait for the trials for that- I want to see pelosi's communications from that day.
@@guacamolekid3899 I: Oh, really? Show us the video, then, why don´t you.
@@guacamolekid3899 proof or source
@@guacamolekid3899 🤡
"I went to war for this Country. Now I go to war WITH this Country".
What a patriot.
Yeah what a hypocrite
Thats what you call fighting for your beliefs, enemies hide both outside and inside, didn't the progressives perceive the whole right as a group they must oust from power to create equality, that is also going to war with your own country
😂😂😂😂😅 shut your ass up you were not no active Frontline soldier
We swore an oath to fight all enemies, foreign AND domestic. If you served you would know the sacred oath we took and that we mean to keep that oath. If one wants to destroy America and replace it with communism, they are an enemy regardless if they live here. An enemy deserves no mercy. Strike hard, strike fast, strike first.
@@peebay3515 If we want to save this country we must embrace fascism, I hate to say. But its the only way to prevent the independents, socialists, Chinese and Russian commies, and demoncraps from ruining our country.
Boy, I can't wait for my kids to learn about this in school one day.
It made it through the algorithm for me. And now I comment this comment that no one will see to help it further.
Hey fellow viewer reading the comments,
I know that the world looks bleak right now, but, if you want to change the world in a better state than it is right now, first, you need to take care of yourself and those you love.
Edit: replaced country with world
This comment needs plenty of attention. It's one thing being educated on the matter, but you need to care of yourself as well. Stay healthy both mentally and physically folks
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“When people aren’t listened to, all it takes is for one man to cross the Rubicon, for it all to end.” -MTWright.
this content should be on everyones starting page
I've watched fascism rise my entire life and my family just completely ignores it. My family lost people to the Holocaust so the country gaslit itself into thinking nothing is wrong
@@pebblepod30 You're definitely a fascist
@@pebblepod30 the right promotes fascism and authoritarianism. The right doesn’t oppose them. Nationalism, xenophobia, anti left/Marxism/socialism, and anti democracy are all thing that fit fascism and the right in America.
Trying to associate fascism and covid, is just a fascists attempt at watering down the definition of fascism, and distracting from the rise of fascism by the right.
“Racist double standards” is another fascist tactic by making xenophobic fascists think they are the victims of the racism that they perpetuate.
Far left protests are against a fascist police state that is killing people in the streets. Again, blaming the victims of the fascists police state for the actions of the fascist police state.
I don’t want dumb fascist sympathizers parents determining what my children learn. I’d much rather have professional educators determine the education of children, than stupid right wing parents.
@@pebblepod30 fascism is a very specific ideology and form of government. Left wing fascism is like right wing communism, it doesn’t exist. Only conservatives who don’t know what fascism is try to use it to describe things. Read the doctrine of fascism.
@@saintcain what about nazbols and Starsserists?
@@mappingmapping95 the nazbols were not right wing communism, or left wing fascism. They were a failed attempt to combine the two extremes. Strasserism was not left wing at all.
Go read the doctrine of fascism, and the communist manifesto, and you’ll know why there is no left wing fascism or right wing communism.
I spoke to a baby boomer I work with & she’s convinced what we’re seeing now is the “last gasp” of the bigots before the country inevitably becomes more diverse & egalitarian. Must be nice to be *that* optimistic…
You know that might actually be true. The death throws if you will, the thrashing and convulsing movements of a outdated and dying ideology coming into one big crescendo before erasure.
He has a 50/50 chance to be right though.
Something has to give eventually. And it could break out either way.
America is on a path to becoming a Venezuela 2.0
@@Yandel21ableify Venezuela would be doing extraordinarily better right now of it weren't for those U.S. sanctions. Being locked out of international trade and excluded from the SWIFT system is devastating on their economy.
Boomers are worse than fascists.
great stuff
It's not on the rise. it's always been here.
Well technically it declined by late 60’s and was underground and weak sicne, but now they attempting uprisings sicne 2015 majorly, and we have been in fascist civil war sicne
I agree. The recent and current environment has made it more acceptable to voice these opinions. Growing up in the 1970's and 1980's South, it was not socially acceptable in decent circles to voice support for the KKK or similar beliefs, though we knew it was out there latent and hidden.. It stuns me to see today that " nice " people are embracing these philosophies openly and shamelessly. Their fathers, uncles and grandfathers fought and died fighting these ideologies.
@@mikeohawk95What uprisings? What civil war? Are you lost?
well the mass protests, racial predjice in last decades, border disputes,etc akak some well "civil wars" happing right now under our noses@@thepreacher7399
The forest was getting smaller, yet the trees welcomed the axe. The axe was clever; he convinced the trees that because he had a wooden handle he was one of them.
wtf?
@@samfire3067 "wtf?", said the tree, when the concerned traveler tried to warn him not to trust the Axe.
That is an awesome anecdote...bravo
Isn’t that about Jews….
Reported for antisemitism
COVID should never have been politicized too...
Just remember Naomi, our Senate and House had their chance to get rid of the guy that would go on to screw up the response and then politicize the whole thing through media mouthpieces about two months before it hit, and DIDN’T.
By either side. All of this works because people are turned against each other so they can't fight off the real problem. The far right here seized entire cities and shut down border crossings because their feelings were hurt and those pinky leftist commies wouldn't listen, and that got us pinky leftist commies to hate them and draw attention away from all the companies profiting off of COVID and all the government policy on both sides that was driving the issue even further. It spiraled into absolute insanity, and that's exactly what the far right wants. It wants us fighting so it can march in with guns.
People are dying left and right causing lives to be worse and affecting the Economic system I'm pretty sure that’s political.
In the wise words of the most beloved cartoon character Rick Sanchez reacting to 9/11
"Oh no! They're gonna use this as an excuse to take away our freedoms!"
Save me...what do you mean by that? 'Covid' shoulda been called 'Duck...the State employees are in power'.
Good content. Thank you
Thanks for the good work. We need it
As people watch something they love disappear they turn to extremes-my history teacher
Yep. It’s pretty much seeing changing demographics in the USA that could be fueling this facist rise.
to someone who is already accustomed to privilege equality may feel like oppression.
@@Doyourbest4245 Iso has a point and your rebuttal is a ad- hominem smh
Except that what’s disappearing that they love is the ability to discriminate and enjoyment of unfettered white privilege.
@@flowersinawasteland equality is when u run away from ur home and steal others jobs
I’m writing this from the UK.
We had our bizarre moment of what you might call extremism, with Brexit. An outpouring of anger and disappointment from those feeling left behind. Personally I voted remain because I couldn’t see any benefit in leaving of the European Union. However the majority of the country, for whatever reason decided that the EU was the cause of their discontent.
For me the failure was not of the political right or left, it was of the ruling class that completely misjudged the feeling of those people in areas feeling left behind, and what they would do about it. We gave them the chance to kick the ruling classes in the testicles, and they took it. The fact that almost certainly their lives will be no better subsequently is of no matter.
I do wonder if the majority of trump supporters who latched onto his message of MAGA, And his populism will realise subsequently that it was actually an illusion? In the same way that the alleged benefits of Brexit will also prove to be an illusion?
As a British person living in Canada I completely agree with you. I left there in 2010 and have only seen the country turn back into "the sick man of Europe."
The EU countries are spending money on infrastructure on the whole Continent, joining people with high speed rail links and investing in the future for economic benefit. We see none of this in the UK, hell they cant even build a high speed rail line without broken promises. HS2 for example.
I fear for the UK. My parents still live there and I see them now championing Bojo and thinking he can't do anything wrong, when all he has done is divided the country. Similarities between the UK and USA are becoming more apparent. Isolationism, paranoia and ignorance are taking hold and its scary to see looking from the outside in. In fact even in Canada we are suffering from these same problems. It seems to be an Anglo specific issue because I have also heard of these same problems arising in Australia. Which makes me believe that there is a certain elements of racism and fascism involved.
Brexit was a pretty tight margin at the time, now I think only about 30% of the UK still supports it. It was sold under false pretences and a lot of misinformation was flying around (thanks a fuckin' lot Cambridge Analytica!) and it's caused a whole bunch of problems for the country. Honestly, I don't BoJo the clown even believes in it anymore.
Still, it's good to see that a lot of the UK have realized that it was a bad idea and have hopefully learned from their mistakes. And unlike the US, I haven't seen a single person trying to blame it on Greenpeace or MI5.
@@SLJShortt yeah there is that. But there is a subsection of the British public who are so isolated and polarized. I compare the situation to anti-vaxxers. Even though the numbers tell them they are vastly in the minority, they can't be told and think they are the majority. People who live in bubbles and surround themselves with like minded people and like minded ideologies can never be told what reality is.
We thank social media for that.
@@bubba842 That's true. I actually know a few anti-vaxxers. Luckily they're simply aren't the type to go to rallies or storm buildings...they spend most of their time talking about TV shows while smoking half a ton of weed. But, they are poorly educated and stuck in their beliefs.
Again, I'm pleased by the fact that the anti-vax movement and far-right extremism are far smaller groups in the UK than in the US. 78% of the UK is vaccinated and the law isn't shy about going after white-supremists.
@@bubba842 I'm in the UK, and I've noticed one thing that makes antivaxxers here feel like they're in the majority is that they're terminally online. They dislike bomb and dogpile the comment sections of every mainstream British news channel on CZcams, and it gives the effect that they form the majority consensus of opinion. But the numbers just don't bear that out. We're currently on 90% of over 12s having had 1 jab and 82% having had 2, plus 34 million have had boosters. I work for a company with 194 employees and as far as I know only one of my colleagues is an antivaxxer, and she recently retired. She's also exactly the kind of person you'd expect to fit the profile: very right-wing, blames immigrants for every problem in the known universe, and thick as pig shit.
Oh boy a controversial video on radicalism, can't wait to see what the comments look like!
big shock its full of right wing psychos lol
Am Kenyan and i remember in 2007, when elections happened which was obviously fraudulent, we literally descended into a civil war that lasted for a couple of months before the police could manage to separate people but the damage was done foreign investors left and thousands of people killed and displaced.
Unfortunately, this is the same situation America could find itself, the only thing missing is the trigger, it might be some mistrusted elections or death of a popular right wing politician, but it might turn out to be a civil war, though i think the American security forces are capable of protecting public areas and stabilising militias unless they are also compromised by right wing apologists and moles.
Just a quick note: fascism may be the word traditionally used for Mousolini's regime, but it denotes really a state of mind. The state of mind of being superior so deserving resources that must be obtained at all costs, including war. It is a modus operandi used by humanity's powerful psychopaths millenia before Mousolini. It has always brought suffering and misery, without exceptions.
The US is the only country that after WWII is involved in so many armed force conflicts and fascistic puppet regimes. So the rise of fascism that the video explains is a actually a rise in expression, not a rise in culture and systemic behavior which is an integral part of the country. As Bill Hicks cleverly said: Nazism was beaten by fascism.
Nailed it. Capitalisms Invisible Army and Nazi made natural homies.
@Tagedieb love from the U.S.
@@RanchDressingPop-Tarts Indeed but the context of this discussion is US.
@@tuckerbugeater yes authoritarian regimes are not only capitalist. The thing is that the model does not allow social justice. It is impossible. It is rigged and serves best the organized crime around the world. USSR failed but at least the initial motives were far better than get rich or die trying.
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Love that people believe the whole “replacement theory” thing, and that our countries makeup and legacy is being destroyed, because that’s exactly what we did to Native Americans.
Would you not resist had you realized you were being replaced? It’s not ironic if they also agree native replacement was bad too. Why antagonize those that are hurting?
@@jounce1111 because white people are not being replaced, this is not up for debate either. I’ll antagonize them if they say stupid shit like that even if you don’t like it, it’s what they deserve. Letting people run rampant with stupid conspiracies is part of how we got here in the first place.
@@jounce1111 "white" as an identity is made up, all races are made up because of colonialism, but that does not mean that it isn't socially constructed and doesn't have real world consequences, the entire genocide of people that lived in the americas must be reverted with land back movements, the "white" label is a byproduct of the white persons socially constructed superiority, and the idea that they are being replaced puts them on the pedestal that their race is a "default" and any taint in their race is then a "genocide" against them. They also make this argument in Europe concerning the rise of "Islam" when the type of violence used is all Europeans condemn even though Europeans attack the countries of Muslims in full head on invasions, away from the europeans home and into their homes, and those very same europeans are the manufacturers of conflict in the countries of Muslims and other areas around the world. "white replacement" is fascist bullshit
@Karl Marx no one deserves to pay for the crimes of another
@@heheheha5726 i think you're jumping to too many conclusions. This sounds racist against white people. Land reversion is wrong because the stripping of property and opportunity is wrong, and especially because no one should pay for someone else's actions and their effects on people long since dead. Replacement can be thought of factually in this case according to the statistics, which youtube will not allow me to post.
The average person is not a manufacturer of conflict. I wish no Ill will upon those that would not hurt me. Aim your anger at the people that could actually change something
I have never been into fashion so i look forward to learning about this.
Speaking as an Australian, I have always been amused by what is referred to as left wing in the USA. I suppose the reality is that in my own country, liberals are on the conservative side of politics, whilst on the other side of the political socialism is about our responsibility to others in our society. The reality of our situation as a commonwealth is, that there will always be a balance between liberty of the individual being impacted by the requirements of society, and the impact of the perceived rights of the Individual upon the rest of society.
So what happens in the polemic of society to create a schism to polarise extreme points of views that lead to lead to hard right views such as fascism. What is the very shit that creates the soil from which it can grow. In recent years we have lived through the advent of a covid pandemic. Simply put viruses exist, and have a very long history. In my country we did endure the opinions of individuals who could only perceive this from the perspective of how it impacted upon them, and utterly failed to understand their own impact upon others.
The world we are living in is changing, as indeed were the changes that happened at the end of WW1, that led to the eventual rise of Fascism and the subsequent conflict of WW2.
The USA has certainly produced, and hopefully will continue to produce great minds that have contributed to the advancement of humanity. However, it has also produced some of the most powerful ratbags, Trump being the latest in a long line. There is an old saying that states it quite clearly, come the occasion come the individual, as no doubt MAGA is nothing but a rehash of the 1930s, and those famous speeches of Lindberg.
I wish you well in the work that you are doing, and the very best of luck to help heal your own country of its current malady.😇
It's getting progressively harder and harder to wake up every morning to this place
Maybe time to join the thousands who have already abandoned this sinking ship and found warner and more free countries?
@@johnmguzman7491 Europe sounds nice it's not completely perfect but it's hell a lot of better than this place
@@johnmguzman7491 "More free countries". 🤡
@@BozgorSlayer America doesn’t even make it to the top 10 “most free” countries. Pull your head out of the sand.
@@BozgorSlayer 👢👅
This is exactly why I say in the near future American society is either going to be socialist or fascist. Like you said neoliberalism has failed and something's got to give. The change is going to be either positive or negative, depending on which side gains the most power.
To be fair there are some concerning signs but seems people comparing things to Weimar don´t really know there history, we talk about inflation wiping out all money savings while there are two radical groups acutely trying to overthrow the government violently whit 100 death in uprisings. Kapp-putsch which just failed by a national strike, the Spartacist uprising where the Military killed 130-180 people while also losing 20 men and the more famous Beerhall Putch of the NSDAP.
Considering what we've seen in the last 20 years, especially the Arab Spring, the outcome of these revolutions has led to right-wing control of these governments. Any branch or wing of law enforcement and government with any prominent position is a conservative capitalist. Any member of law enforcement is either hard conservative or center-right. At best they have single issues they're liberal about, like drug incarceration and criticism of the prison industrial complex. Look at any legislation involving gains for the donor class and you have near bipartisan support across the board in Congress. Those bills get passed. So it makes sense that Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon says we could be a right-wing dictatorship in 10 years; the amount of RWers to do it is already there in those institutions to carry it out.
The few actual leftists that exist in the aforementioned institutions are either new or have no power because they are an affront to that established ingroup. You can't rise through the ranks of power when the people who are the problem are the gatekeepers. So that other angle that 'leftists are the true fascists' is made by people who call anyone two steps to the left of their fascism, a radical leftist.
Let’s face it, Capitolism isn’t working. Socialism is better than fascism.
Currently the churches do the socialism thing, distributing food to the needy, sheltering and feeding the homeless, etc. Government and business run on capitalism. It works out pretty good. I’ve seen through experience that people in the ages that are transitioning from older teenager to young adult on into full adulthood are naturally driven to do something to stand out, to take the lead. They seem to quit worrying about fascism, etc.,, when they reach the age where they have children to worry about. When you’ve seen it and lived through it, you can look back on it and see the results. Just saying.
"socialist or fascis"
Facism is just a variant of Socialism.
Good show . GO
and the george floyd unrest caused way more damage than jan 6th
The arrest protests were a responce to murder commited by a corrupt organisation. Jan 6th was a bunch of sore losers staging a coup
but no one cares even though mostly black people died or got hurt during blm protests
Who cares about the summer protests? They were a necessary reaction to police brutality. January 6th was about brainwashed Republicans who couldn't accept their loss.
@@Mike-ne8eb so in other words your a hypocrite.
@@ChaffyExpert swing and a miss
Literally the most fertile time and place for fascism to take root is during periods of serve economic upheavals and a country full of people desperately wanting something to have faith in even something that promotes cruelty and violence. In capitalism economic upheavals are a designed feature not a bug of the system which means this was inevitable, capitalists will gladly turn to full on, unabashed fascism if that means maintaining their exploitative system.
*Capitalism is the best enabler and friend of fascism, fascism is the "right" bloodiest and coldest hand of capitalism".*
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Fascist capitalism will be defeated.
Because fascist won't threaten the elites and the status quo they set up
Capitalism and religion = fascism
@@tuckerbugeater mhm and Jan6 was a huge set up. Clear as day
"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." - Antonio Gramsci
Mao's Red Guard is what you end up with when you are following Gramsci.
@@Knight81976 here in Italy Gramsci it's considered a sort of "freedom icon" by the left.
Truth Is that he and the communist party Lost After the "two Red years" and he couldn't be in Power instead of Mussolini.
@@jasperzanovich2504 yeah, well Gramsci, Koch, and the rest of that bunch were vile. Mao used Koch’s ideas to make the young generation hate their culture and hate their parents using the education system. He then used his radicalized and indoctrinated “new” to murder their parents and anyone else he wanted to send them against to remake China on his “new” image. Any ideology teaching you to hate your parents, ancestors, and culture is automatically evil.
And what are you: the old, or the new?
@@jasperzanovich2504 On the contrary, complex societal systems are made of individuals and it is impossible to have them without individuals.
Excellent commentary
Video made it theu the algorithm. Thanks
I'd say one big point is that the US never had a fascist or Nazi period like basically all of Europe if you count all the conquered areas and puppet states of the time so the "let's maybe NOT go through that again" factor just isn't there, at least for a big chunk of the general public.
European nations such as Germany and Italy had a history of feudalism. A lot of people wanted something to bring about a bigger, more United country. Germany in particular had issues with the economy that got pushed under the rug and much of the public lost faith in established left and right factions in handling the divide. Not to mention a lot of the laborers in small businesses and farming in Germany felt neglected and unfairly treated by the reforms.
America arguably had almost feudalism under the Articles of Confederation, but that was fixed to a decent extent by overriding it with the US Constitution.
@@KaosNova2 Germany in general was the perfect storm at the time, you've got conspiracy theories about the end of WWI going around, a completely fucked economy and starvation in the early 30s (partly because that retard Brüning actively worsened it as he saw a possibility to reduce the payments for Versailles), a president in Hindenburg who actively despises democracy and is still fiercely loyal to the emperor and the several chancellors who sabotaged each other until no one except ol' Moustachio was left who had any sort of "claim" for the job.
And let's not forget the genius naming and personnel decisions of the party, the S sure helped with workers but the N and people like Göring and Ludendorff (at least early on) were easily usable public figureheads.
So I'm not sure if the situation that led to the rise of the Nazis can be used as a template to describe the rise of fascist or totalitarian regimes.
The same should be seriously considered for our current low-value flirtations with far-Left mistakes, such as collegiate Critical Theory "long march through the institutions" agendised manifestations, and sociosexual stupidities such as echo chamber output opinions like today's peer-enforced, "politically correct" Cultural Marxism.
Incidentally, the same goal of outright Communism is hoped for. Perhaps they didn't get the memo, though...
@@LordBones.Cascadia”cultural Marxism” whenever someone says that you know for a fact that they’ve been listening to too many pundits
Except facism is growing in Europe even more than in America unfortunately
History really does play a lot of reruns.
*Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it until they learn.*
*Those who do learn and take care to not repeat it are doomed to watch people repeat it.*
I mean yeah, it's not like humans have changed.
@@junkers1337 Humans never change. The material conditions have to change. Our suroundings, the human organisation of life and society because they create our existence and the ways we are and think. The basis of all this is the economy. It will never change as long capitalism exists, which creates the economic crises in the first place.
Cause people remix the same broken systems and expect different results.
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Excellent video.
I think you’re missing the fact that the pandemic played a large part in the growth of right wing extremism. As we get further and further from the effects of the pandemic, their influence has waned and will continue to wane.
I'm from The Bahamas and I truly enjoy your videos. I am afraid of living in a scenario where America becomes fascist especially living within the backyard of the United States. My government moves to the tune of the United States on regional matters and we are heavily dependent on North American tourists as well as your exports of food. Please keep up the good fight!
I wouldn't worry about tourism, most of the people who were present on Jan 6 have never left the United States, for some it was probably the first time that they left their own county or state.
This kind of thinking doesn't happen to people who have traveled to other places and met people from other cultures.
This people are extremely isolated and probably have no idea where the Bahamas are.
The world will never find peace until amerikkka is gone. Its looking like itll collapse in my lifetime...but the only thing that woreies me is thst america will not go out with a wimper, we may try to take everyone with us. Do not let that happen
@@mikeyorkav4039 They will destroy themselves from the inside. The only fear is what will emerge afterwards. Alot of these people would rather die than change their ideology. It's sad that people would die for ideas inside their heads.
@@theinquisitor7191 you need to go for President 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
@@papasthopoulous1117 User-President.
I think the problem with this is Americans in general just assume fascism just happens overnight. Like Germany woke up one morning, just before WW2 starts, and said, "OMG we're fascists now! They took over the whole government while we were asleep!" It took the better part of a decade for past-Germany to become a fascist state, and it started with (spoiler alert) nationalism and patriotism. So yeah, Second Thought IS very right and you cannot argue/deflect it.
You can argue that the roots of fascism in Germany started with the treaty of Versailles. Many of the members of the Freicorps of the Weimar Republic later went on to become the members of the SA (Brownshirts). Its quite understandable since the Freicorps were used to quell communist meetings and gatherings.
@@user-oi6ec8ge4c And the far-right conservative base thinks THEY are being screwed over by the democrats. So it's running the "proper course".
Let's not forget a lost WW1 with 2 million germans casualties, the resignation of the German Kaiser resulting in a fiercly contested representative democracy, civil unrest close to open civil war, the hyperinflation of the Reichsmark destroying all accumulated wealth as well as all wages, and the world economic crisis in 1929, which brought unemployment rates up to 30% in 1932 - *all this within 15 years after end of WW1 !!!* The Weimar Republic was economically, socially, politically and ideologically messed up, fragmented and destabilized by both the right and the left from the inside, as well as from the outside.
@@bubba842 fascism was on its way out, if you want to chalk it up to a single event then the Great Depression was what put Hitler on the map.
@@thematic3893 Yes, when the NSDAP took power in Germany, it had already passed its zenith as a movement. See the results of the Reichstag elections in 1933. Probably because the economic situation began to improve
If you want to know what Fascism is, I suggest you read The Doctrine of Fascism and other works of Giovanni Gentile, Hegel, and Hitler.
The amount of misinformation everywhere, it is hard to trust anything, and it is sad. I was trying to look into books that are banned, and I can not find a reliable online source to tell me which are banned and why
Considering recent American history, calling January 6, 2021, "the weirdest day in recent American history" is really saying something!
For any other country, the day its leader displayed such blatant corruption would be the most important day in its history. But for America, it was Wednesday. -Tweaking of Raul Julia as M. Bison from Street Fighter
OK, it was shitty but Pearl Harbor was and still is worse. Thousands of deaths compared to a few and launched us into WW2.....and even more deaths....then atomic bombs in 1945. No comparison
@@archangelofcoffee922 No doubt, but that raises the question of how you define "recent history." WWII is definitely *modern* history, but I wouldn't consider it *recent* history. For me, recent history begins in 1970.
@Hello There You're joking.. right?
@@archangelofcoffee922 Pearl Harbor was terrible but war with Japan and Germany was inevitable. WW2 sucked but it was a clear cut case of good vs evil and we did what we had to do. Jan 6th though is completely different, it highlights the erosion of our democracy. We can handle fighting off foreign adversaries but it seems we struggle, and in some ways, are welcoming domestic ones.
There's only one thing I disagree with this video: landowners, business owners and upper-middle class white collar workers are absolutely the core demographics of fascism, together with disaffected veterans. I don't know where this idea of backward hillbillies being the bulk of fascism comes from, but it makes no sense.
They’re the disposable muscle due to the intended lack of education and propaganda.
Thank you for pointing this out!!!
Yeah, it is always the classes between the proletariat and bourgeosie because they're hit by the crisis first and they want to smash any workers rights. By doing this and because the petty-bourgoisie isn't able to politically rule themselves, they will always serve the bourgeoisie and big capital.
I've alway's thought of fascism as a social belief not an economic one, so why does economic status matter when viewing who is a fascist?
Total BS- it's the leftists who are doing the vax mandates and passports. They're the ones who scream 'fascist' at people while beating them up in packs. The right has remained relatively calm during all of this- that's why they had to fake the insurrection- it's the Jussie Smollett of insurrections.
A well made video, but it doesnt explain much the "why", but the "how". I was more right leaning a couple of years ago (but still somewhat central), now I am more left leaning (but still somewhat central) and I can say that there wouldnt be a HUGE fire without a HUGE smoke.
Fascism springing out of an imperialist nation is the least surprising thing, especially when you consider WWII: Where America dedicated itself to working with communists to crush fascism, only to then give the fascists jobs in the government to crush communism.
Unfortunately the US has been exporting this thinking to the rest of the world, the U.K. is not far behind and it’s incredibly disappointing
Even the oddity of there being Trumpers that exist in Canada and use his rhetoric to form conspiracies against their own Parliament.
Stupidity spread but it’s in the blood line of white Anglo imperialism
@@user-oi6ec8ge4c I'm curious, where do you live now?
@@theinquisitor7191 The reason christianity is on the decline is because people realized we don't really need it. Islam and muslims aren't a problem, more so any radical religion.
@@IshkenJD people who give up on their Christian beliefs are either on the wrong side of god, or they know the truth, but refuse to listen to it. There are simply people who belong to the darkness, and those snatched from darkness to belong to the light, and those born of the light.
In a nutshell, hubris leads to calamity. There's a difference between being proud and blinded by exceptionalism. History shows us that "pride" comes before fall. There are plenty of factors involved, but simply put, jingoism is a product of exceptionalism and a form of tribalism.
A Guide to Those Debating in the Comment Section:
The key to sliding unpopular ideas into a conversation is to avoid those exact, identifying uncomfortable words. Try to center Capitalism around its functions. How it fails, exploits, wastes. Talk about the things they care about, if you're able: the environment, animal welfare, workers' rights. If someone is less sympathetic and more self-centered, consider focusing on how it would benefit them and theirs. It's not a guarantee of course, but in my experience (of being a person the last decade or so) it can make quite a difference. Also, remember to be respectful as much as possible.
@@dillonkeller4477 Anybody can be guilty of it. We all know that all of us can be a little too full with ourselves or too comfortable in our echo chamber(s). We're humans, we just make bad decisions and have foggy perceptions from time to time.
@@alexmurrow7132 Agreed. Peace and connecting yields the best results. Very rarely do ad hominems ever convince anyone of anything.
"Hey. I never thought of it like that. You're right! I am a total ---k face and I hope that I die too for thinking the way I did a few seconds ago. Thanks for physically assaulting me too! I'm going to go tell it to the mountains! Look at me, I'm so happy now!"
lol Never will that be said though.
As a liberal Tennessean raised in the shadow of memorials, monuments, and epitaphs recounting civil strife and national tragedy, the republic is endangered for the first time since a plantation aristocracy turned patrician republic. I have a front row seat to Trumpland here in Columbia, TN where a Jason Aldean video used my hometown for hyperpartisan antics to peddle the Two Americas myth.
No one wants to be told they have to Xcept what they hate. gone X
America when an elderly qanon crowd riots on the white house *calm*
America when indegenous americans doesnt want a petrol line go straight outta their fresh water sources *Angry* *Do Not Resist*
Native Americans threaten capital. White Q anons don’t
@@georgekostaras they literally *raided* the everlasting hell out of capital lmao!
@@georgekostaras Imagine thinking this
As a non-American, watching what is unfolding regularly in the States, the situation is definitely dire - far worse than what most Liberals want to assume. This video reminded me of the Zizek quote (to paraphrase) that a vote for Macron is a vote for Le Pen in the future - implying that so long as Neo-liberal politicians are elected and the Neo-liberal structure is not dismantled, far-right politics will continue to gain steam and supporters.
Fortunately for the time being, most fascists and conservatives are not particularly intelligent people, or rather they tend to fall in particular personality types - which serves to be their Achilles heel. I was reading a book by George Hawley, where he examines a number of recent far-right groups/movements in America and the general theme behind such groups tends to be that they tend to collapse due to very poor organization/in-fighting or inevitable legal problems which their activities bring about - all of this tends to come from outside pressure brought on by anti-fascist activists like Antifa or SPLC who make it harder for such groups to operate and often bring to the surface many of the organizational flaws inherent within such groups (which is often exacerbated by the paranoid nature of many of their members). Furthermore, due to the lack of coherent political vision on the part of fascists (I mean Fascism is a collection of often contradictory ideas and is notoriously hard to define for such reasons), most groups have historically fallen apart and tend to splinter off into smaller groups which tend to beef with one another/disagree on their vision of a perfect society. There is a humorous anecdote that come to mind of two prominent Nazi's in my home town who got into an argument over who was more racially pure which ended with one of them going to jail for stabbing the other.
I say all this not to imply that we can all chill out because the far-right are a bunch of bumbling morons who will ultimately trip over themselves (they are VERY dangerous, especially considering the dire economic conditions which neo-liberal policies are creating), but more to share information (albeit very limited) with others on how such groups function, where some of their weaknesses lie and highlight both the importance and effectiveness of direct action against the far-right/reactionaries (which doesn't have to always encompass violent direct action)
I’ll def hold onto that zizek quote
This is true in nazi germany was a lot of infighting of who had the more pure race, even if somehow they had won WW2 there would have been a lot of infighting and more racian cleaning within cause it's an unstable bealieve system.
I voted Biden, but watching this video and the constant progressive failures of the "most progressive" admin in history really make me question what was truly best for America on 2020. Voting rights is about as bad as it was in the segregation era and far right groups have tons of momentum that may not slow down for at least a decade, meanwhile our decrepit ghouls of leadership in Congress are bragging that insider trading is perfectly fine and beholden to 2 conservative senators and Mitch McConnell. The rich have a stranglehold over the Democratic party and just run business as usual on the Republican side. We could easily see a more charismatic and effective Fascist rise up from the right wing in the next decade with no effective message to counter it coming from the democrats if we keep running Pelosi and Schumer types in leadership roles till they literally turn to dust and bone.
@@user-oi6ec8ge4c I at least wanted to believe there was potential for a left wing movement to gain momentum within the Democratic party, yes it would be nothing truly left wing, but center left moving in that direction rather than what we have now. But not even that seems possible now.
@@amberbrandenburg4175 Oh here we go another Alt-Right Nutjob here to defend their god…
These people are not only ignorant, but so scary 😳
It’s a shame fascism is infecting so many places around the world nowadays. Let’s all hope it gets better.
Fascism is not a disease.
Indeed. One can only hope. That said, younger generations such as mine must stand up to tyranny so we can one day make a better world (hopefully)
It did not get better
@@Hadfield15
We heard the same thing in the 70's.
Generations come thinking they're going to change the world for the better. They pass only to be replaced by the next generation which thinks it will be the one to fix everything. Never ending circle called life.
So then let’s pull a France and start revolting. even better, hold the economy hostage, it’s the only thing they’ll pay attention to