Take it From US Survivors. This is Fascism by Umair Haque
An urgent warning from someone who has lived the experience of a society developing into fascism. Umair Haque.
Americans Have 60 Days Left to Speak Out as One — Or They’ll Lose Their Democracy For Good
America’s at a moment of extreme peril. In about 60 days, its democracy could die — for good. There’s a growing understanding of the gravity of this threat. But is it fast enough, broad enough, deep enough?Take it from us survivors. This is fascism.Let me review recent events, through the eyes of a survivor of fascism.A President incited his extremists followers to violence — and a radicalized young man who seems to have idolized him gunned down innocent protesters in the streets. Let me put it even more starkly. Innocent protesters were gunned down by a radicalized young man with a rifle — simply because they made the fatal mistake of being on the side of hated minorities.
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Re: Take it From US Survivors. This is Fascism by Umair Haque
Another profoundly disturbing article by Umair Haque.
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We Don’t Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America is Dying.
We Survivors of Authoritarianism Have a Message America Needs to Hear: This is Exactly How it Happens, and It’s Happening Here.
Right about now, something terrible is happening in America. Society is one tiny step away from the final collapse of democracy, at the hands of a true authoritarian, and his fanatics. Meanwhile, America’s silent majority is still slumbering at the depth and gravity of the threat.
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There is a crucial lesson there. America already has an ISIS, a Taliban, an SS waiting to be born. A group of young men willing to do violence at the drop of a hat, because they’ve been brainwashed into hating. The demagogue has blamed hated minorities and advocates of democracy and peace for those young men’s stunted life chances, and they believe him. That’s exactly what an ISIS is, what a Taliban is, what an SS is. The only thing left to do by an authoritarian is to formalize it.
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That’s another thing we survivors see very clearly right now, but “real” Americans might not. The capture of a police force is not just the capture of a police force. It threatens the whole fabric of a democracy. The monopoly on violence that the people’s agents should have is being transferred to the authoritarian. Why else would police forces beat people on the streets? Give hateful young men a free pass to kill people?
It all points to the beginnings of true violence, not just at the hands of the radicals — but aided and abetted by the state. That is the point at which a democracy finishes collapsing — and never comes back. Because once the state is free to do real violence — who is going to protest? Speak out? Even criticize?
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A second Trump term? It will involve all of the following. Shock troops on the streets. Disappearances becoming everyday events. Critics and dissidents being tortured in hidden jails. Expression and thought being monitored for any negative portrayal of the fascists. Hated minorities institutionally dehumanized and resegregated. It will involve levels of such horrific violence and brutality that Americans still cannot understand or grasp precisely because they have been lucky enough to have never yet personally experienced them.
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Hear our warning. None of us have the time left now for petty divisions, intellectualizations, the games pundits play, the way I lost my column when I began to warn of all this. I didn’t pay the bigger price — you did.
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