Why Certain Demographics Are Turning To Fascism

The loss of community from technology (among other things) made many people who feel alienated from the world at large struggle with their identity. The majority of these are typically white, male, and are part of the crumbling middle class that is, in reality, part of the lower class. This group of disaffected white males perk their ears up when they are told about their White Privilege. Because, for them, they look around at the trials and tribulations of their lives and they do not feel privileged, they instead feel downtrodden and cast-aside by society. They sit there and watch people marching to make Black lives better, to make Women’s lives better, to male the lives of LGBTQ better, and wonder when is it their turn? The poor white male wondering when his white privilege gets kicked in, all the while feeling like the world is against them. This makes them far too easy to recruit. Far too easy to manipulate.

Obviously the vast majority of young white men are not white nationalists or neo-Nazis, but lacking a lucid understanding of the world due to their age, class, and lack of regional mobility makes them ripe for the picking for brainwashing. The trend I am seeing is that people on the lower socioeconomic classes are blaming one another for their problems. But the real culprit is classism and government. These two forces are pitting the poor against each other and it’s a matter of time before they notice this, which is why you see the government trying to instigate and strengthen the divide between them.

Why does this matter? Why the delve into understanding the mindset of these white males that are being brainwashed into becoming fascists? Fascism arises out of a historical context. Do not think of fascism as ideological, think of it as methodological and psychological.

There are no real ideas in fascism. There are only uses to those ideas. If you look at the main points fascists try to make, you’ll find nothing but contradictions. It is populist, yet elitist. It is revolutionary, yet conservative. It will create a new world by returning to a mythical past. It brings peace by bringing violence. The modern society it struggles against is both too free and decadent and yet too stifling and too restrictive. When the Nazis were trying to come to power, they were using as much rhetoric from as many points of view to broaden their appeal as much as possible. They took terminology from both social democrats and communists.

A more notable feature of fascism is that the enemy is both strong and weak at the same time. Hitler’s very magnum opus, Mein Kampf had him struggling with this concept. He mentioned the Jews he saw in Vienna. They were poor and did not live well. On top of that, he made a note to mention they were short, their facial features ugly, their smell unbearably bad along with being feeble-minded with intellectual disabilities. And yet, somehow, they controlled an international banking empire and the entire press of the Western World and were somehow mind-linked at birth all agreeing with a single obsession to constantly undermine the Aryans. He was almost self-aware of this contradiction when saying he couldn’t understand it.

Fascism always starts during a crisis when things seem confusing and chaotic, especially during or after government gridlock. Combine this along with pushing an obsession with a plot (conspiracy theories), scapegoating certain groups, using national imagery to pump up patriotism and forming an uneasy alliance with conservatives. It comes to political power when an uneasy conservative elite then support a rambunctious politician or political movement because they see that the Left or leftist movements in the country are gaining steam (oh hey, this is kind of starting to sound familiar…?). In Italy, this was the workers’ councils movements in 1919–21: the Catholic Church had an uneasy relationship with Mussolini and his fascists, but they believed this would stop the workers’ movement. In Germany, a good ten years after a socialist workers’ revolution, the conservatives believed Hitler would settle things. In Austria, after another socialist uprising there around the same time, the conservatives supported the fascists to suppress the socialist movement.

It should be noted that so-called “Austro-fascism” was not based on anti-Semitism — fascism doesn’t always have to do with blaming Jewish people. Fascism is also not a phenomenon unique to the industrialized world; it emerged in Cambodia and Rwanda, for example, that created results all too similar to the Holocaust. Whenever a nation has experienced a form of national humiliation or pain, felt often by conservatives, fascism rushes to appear to dress these wounds. In Germany, it was the defeat of World War I. In Italy, it was the workers’ movement and factory occupations and to rebuild the Roman Empire. In Japan, it was an attempt to remake the Great Japanese Empire. In Cambodia, it was after being bombed to pieces by the US and the collapse of its monarchy. In Rwanda, it was after their President Habyarimana died in a plane crash which was suspected to be an assassination.

Ultimately, the base of fascism’s growth is to manipulate a desperate population in need of easy answers to complex problems and feelings of humiliation and pain.

The Nazis promised giving power to pure “Aryans” but did the average Hans come to power? Of course not: they were being used and their lives were thrown away for madmen with a hard-on for their barbaric worldviews. Fascism is not an “idea” in the most common sense, it is a method of mass manipulation of the ignorant to intensify power to narcissists and psychopaths.

The modern neo-Nazis do not realize they are being used. They are not coming to power, but are only pawns to further solidify it for the wealthy and the powerful. Your black neighbor or Jewish classmate had nothing to do with the state of the world falling apart. The Race, the Fatherland and the Family are all protected while we keep out those horrible Others. Viktor Orban is a fascist. Rodrigo Duterte is a fascist. Bolsonaro is a fascist. Aleksandar Vucic is a fascist. And, yes, Donald Trump (along with many of his Republican allies constantly tongue-fucking his asshole) is a blubbering orange fascist.

Once the black lives matter protester and the poor white american Midwesterner realize that they were both setup by the same system, and this spreads around the world a true revolution will happen. Because everyone deserves to live life with dignity and the pursuit of happiness. And the elites of the world will stop at nothing to keep them from realizing this. History shows us this, from the bombing of Black Wall Street, to the CIA creating the crack epidemic of the 80’s in black communities that still are reeling from the effects.

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