Do You Understand How Dangerous This Moment Is — How Far We've Drifted?

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Do You Understand How Dangerous This Moment Is — How Far We've Drifted? | Common Dreams

Once the government claims the right to strip anyone of due process, rights cease to be rights and become privileges, granted or revoked at the whim of those in power. That is not a constitutional democracy. That is the scaffolding of fascism.

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Why is everyone insisting on specifically calling it fascism instead of authoritarianism, totalitarianism, or dictatorship? Because really, it's using a specific term for something just as easily defined by the general term.
- Fascism is the definition of what's happening right now. Also shorter than any of those other words when you're trying to write an article headline.
  
  That and none of the others easily rhyme or can be shortened to something that easily rhymes. Meanwhile, I could have a fash bash in a flash if I had some cash.
- Because what's going on right now isn't just a dictatorship; it's a fascist dictatorship. Like my country is also a dictatorship and they still won't kidnap you and put you in concentration camps for being brown (or any other color). Many of this administration's actions can only be understood as part of a fascist takeover.
  
  It's not even a takeover, that's the sad part. We elected these chucklefucks.
  
  Still.
  
  I voted. Against all this. I'm not taking any credit with that garbage "we".

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