Palmyrene wrote:Yeah. Fascism exists.
Syria and other Baathist states aren't imaginary. Islamists aren't imaginary. Fascists and populist rising the West and Latin America aren't imaginary.
Their real and pretending they aren't gives them power.
Islamists are their own thing, they are probably worse than fascists if anything. The populism in europe is pro-freedom of speech, individual liberty and democracy because in contrast the political establisment in europe leans against those things being rather technocratic. There is no fascism there. No worship of the state, no dear leaders, no censorship or any of that shit.
What is going on in Europe is a conflict of interests between the democratic national liberalism of the people vs the technocratic liberalism of the EU. Even the EU more liberal than fascist. It is national liberals vs trans-national liberals.
I do not know about Baathism but maybe it is some kind of imitation of european politics from a century ago. I give you that.