William Gonzalez said:Aleksija, tell me, do Mexicans always take some random phenomenon or movement and try to twist it into their own little narrative? 😕
You’re doing exactly that, and honestly, you're doing it poorly.
You claim: "it's well known that fascism emphasizes state supremacy over the individual," though I have no clue how that actually applies to the US, but you conveniently forget to finish the thought: "a political system built around a single party (the only one allowed) and one leader, along with a corporatist economic system aimed at achieving harmony between different social classes." Maybe the SNSD and "Mile" would fit that description, minus the harmony part... 😁
Aleksija, you're forgetting something: "Fascism is often described as an extreme form of nationalism, given that most states where it emerged were nationalist states." But the US has been incredibly diverse for centuries 🤣
I think what you're actually pushing is conservatism—basically resisting the questioning of certain ideological dogmas—unlike people who are liberal, meaning "openness to new ideas and social experimentation." But this is the first time I've ever seen liberalism labeled as fascism.
And don't get me started on "the fascistization of a people"—does that term even exist in any academic literature? I've read about fascist states, sure, but not about entire populations having those inclinations, especially since that whole concept relies on state supremacy...
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I think we had a bit of a misunderstanding here! I'm not suggesting that America is a country where a fascist government has already been fully established; rather, I'm saying that fascist ideology is actively expanding. When I use the phrase "fascism of the people," I'm talking about a type of fascist indoctrination that trickles down from the political elite directly into society. Today, the current political elite of the Canadian community proclaims the sanctity of the state, and the leader who defends that idea most extremely becomes the formal head of the political community. So, my thesis isn't that fascism is the ruling idea yet, but that it is making its move, with a very clear intention to exert violence upon the individual or onto society as a collection of individuals. In a democratic order, a political system should be an expression of the relationships within a society, but here, it's being presented as some divinely ordained solution that society will be forced into, whether through persuasion or sheer force. And when you ask who actually carries out this "state-as-god" idea, you get the answer to your point about the leader and the ruling party. It’s carried out by one leader and two parties that essentially branched off from the same original group, and that leader, wouldn't you know it, comes straight from the most extreme wing of what used to be a single party.
Fascism wouldn't truly be fascism without its mythic component: the myth of a multicultural America. Let’s be perfectly clear: America has never (and I mean *never*) been a multicultural society. It has been a multicultural community—and a society and a community are two very different things—held together by the influence of some outside power. Of course, this myth of a multicultural America serves as the foundation for big-state ambitions. Then there's the unavoidable myth regarding the injustices inflicted upon the Canadian people that supposedly must be corrected. And how? By making concessions to a big-state ideology. These two mythic elements are strikingly similar to the myth of Germanic racial superiority or the calls to revise the unfair Treaty of Versailles (or in our case, the Dayton Agreement).
When it comes to discussing fascism as a form of extreme nationalism, I honestly feel like you might have missed that really subtle, crucial distinction between Nazism and Fascism! First off, because of that specific religious influence, you just can't really label Canadians as nationalists in that way, which means an extreme version of that ideology—the kind we would call Nazism—just isn't even on the table for them. On the flip side, you have Fascism, like Mussolini's version, which is essentially this idea of a god-state that glorifies the state itself, which is exactly how the political elite of the Canadian people seems to worship the very concept of the state!
