Sarah Weinman: The thing about the march to fascism is that aside from the terror and the consequences it’s also so goddamn embarrassing

The thing about the march to fascism is that aside from the terror and the consequences it’s also so goddamn embarrassing

Of course the problem is that one side feels that tremendous sense of mortification and the other pretends it doesn’t exist

Time for yet another rewatch of Cabaret

Stefan Zweig kind of said this in THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY, which I should reread

the phrase "getting run over by a clown car" has been rattling around my brain for months

Right? Like if someone is going to take this country down couldn't it be someone less humiliating than a moron like Trump?

losing the country to just the absolute dumbest people

Right? We’ve stomped all over the world, swinging our Truth, Justice, & the American Way bat and preaching about “democracy”…..and here we are. It’s like staunchly defending your husband who turns out to actually *be* the serial killer. We are a loudmouth dumbass country.

All these people thinking “and who is my neighbor” was a pretty legit question to ask Jesus

For this guy

No embarrassment from the fascists however.

“.. we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” WOW - can it be any plainer! Have yet to see decent Americans organising resistance www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

Leftist here: NO DEAL

the tragedy wore off sometime in the second millennium bc and since then history has just been farce

I'd recommend Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros play where people who convert to fascism become rhinos...

America falling to a glorified orange turnip, and that it started happening around Independence Day. Couldn't make it up if you tried.

Nah. You never get embarrassed if you don't have any self respect or shame.

It's been nine years and I still wake up and think, all this for that fucking guy?

Kids reading about this in future history books will think we were all idiots

They'll be correct

Most of us are.

We can see it coming but can't do anything, that helpless feeling.

And the people most ardently pushing for fascism are either oblivious to it or don't care.

🇨🇦Here. Yes, we are judging you. Also, dodging the same bullet - but about 2 years behind your March. Sadly, our ex PM Harper and the IDU is a lot to blame for other right wing gong shows in India, Hungary, and with Mike Roman in the Fake electors cases in Georgia an Arizona. …Sorry

I'd say we're closer. We never miss a chance to copy our imperialist big brother.

At least the Third Reich had style.

Maybe we'll get Paul Verhoeven to make our propaganda. He knows how to make corporate malevolence and bureaucratic fascism look marvelous.

Please bear in mind that the Nazis never used this word on themselves. “Nazi” is a nickname given by non-Nazi Germans, from a word that means simpleton or moron.

I find it so embarrassing that we are ***the*** world power. Economically, militarily, freakin' culturally. And a bunch of weak kneed precious baby man children are like, "nah. I just don't wanna"

I'd say that ship has officially sailed

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