@arh@smallcamp.art

just some personal observation from germany regarding this part:

> When they take the power, then the real propaganda begins. Short-term policies will give people the feeling that the situation is getting better when in long-term it just gets worse. Everything will be blamed on past mistakes, tyrannical laws will be justified by saying it’s the majority who voted for this, and every opposing voice will be shut. It’s easy to guess as it happened in history many times.
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> What conservatives advocate for is a mass social divide, same as fascists. In those societies there are two group of people: 1. People who seek liberty and are opposed to the system and 2. People who are directed to believe the system is (as it’s become a religion) taking back the pride for people and make them noble.

this is exactly what the so-called democratic parties did here for covid management. split society into the "good vaccinated" and the "evil not vaccinated" who chose so for a plethora of reasons but were blamed for every single bad thing happening.

who wasn't vaccinated couldn't do anything for nearly a year. except shopping food. even if they followed the other measures by the book. they couldn't go to the hardware store. either online shop (old people may not be able to) or get a handyman (excludes people without much money).

opposing voices on big social media were banned, those with e.g. their own website were discredited as tinfoil-hats etc.

the big parties not involved in this were AfD (right wingers, often callen nazis though not banned), most members of the left party and most members of the liberal party.

the worst dividers were the ultra-progressive greens, followed by social-democrats and christ-democrats.

this is to a degree the same for other progressive topics, like battery-electric cars. if you don't agree with their solution, you are instant pariah, just because you disagree with the solution.

does this make the big progressive parties - greens and social democrats - fascists? they sure fit the description by now.