They’ve been periodically reminding that leaving that country after the Brexit vote was one of the best decisions in my life (and after seeing first hand the discourse around Leave, back then I already thought Britain was one of the most likely European nations to turn Fascist), but the frequency of such reminders has steeply increased in the last couple of months.
Fascism was always about the Powerful imposing their will the rest by force, though when establishing themselves they invariably start by doing it to minorities and those at the fringes of society and then progressivelly expand it to the rest, which is the evolution we are seeing here: the UK has already been doing this kind of thing to the poor, immigrants and even a fraction of the Working Class for years and even in some cases decades - all the way back to how Thatcher craked down on the miner strikes - but now they’ve expanded it to using force against Middle Class types who don’t meekly follow the dictatums of the powerful.
In the Neoliberal era, the masses were induced to stop talking about Power and its various forms and tools and were actually convinced that the system in place was one were they ruled themselves indirectly via elected representatives. This wasn’t actually true, but as long as keeping the masses content yielded higher returns for the Powerful (happy peasants are hard working peasants), a charade was kept as much as possible since it cost them very little to mostly talk the right talk whilst only seldom having to walk the right walk.
My theory is that with the 2008 Crash, then Austerity and after that the seemingly irreversible collapse of Economic growth in the UK following Brexit, the elites there went fully into pillaging mode (rather than “merely” taking an outsized cut of economic growth as they had done until then) and it became harder to keep the masses content, hence the mask is coming off from the British Power elites, even the currently supposedly (but not really, not even close) leftwing government.
Britain speed-running their way into Fascism.
They’ve been periodically reminding that leaving that country after the Brexit vote was one of the best decisions in my life (and after seeing first hand the discourse around Leave, back then I already thought Britain was one of the most likely European nations to turn Fascist), but the frequency of such reminders has steeply increased in the last couple of months.
And Reform is not even in power yet.
The final form of Fascism came not by false flag or to protect the children, but as censorship for a livestreamed genocide. What a joke.
Fascism was always about the Powerful imposing their will the rest by force, though when establishing themselves they invariably start by doing it to minorities and those at the fringes of society and then progressivelly expand it to the rest, which is the evolution we are seeing here: the UK has already been doing this kind of thing to the poor, immigrants and even a fraction of the Working Class for years and even in some cases decades - all the way back to how Thatcher craked down on the miner strikes - but now they’ve expanded it to using force against Middle Class types who don’t meekly follow the dictatums of the powerful.
In the Neoliberal era, the masses were induced to stop talking about Power and its various forms and tools and were actually convinced that the system in place was one were they ruled themselves indirectly via elected representatives. This wasn’t actually true, but as long as keeping the masses content yielded higher returns for the Powerful (happy peasants are hard working peasants), a charade was kept as much as possible since it cost them very little to mostly talk the right talk whilst only seldom having to walk the right walk.
My theory is that with the 2008 Crash, then Austerity and after that the seemingly irreversible collapse of Economic growth in the UK following Brexit, the elites there went fully into pillaging mode (rather than “merely” taking an outsized cut of economic growth as they had done until then) and it became harder to keep the masses content, hence the mask is coming off from the British Power elites, even the currently supposedly (but not really, not even close) leftwing government.