Are Americans going to tolerate living under Fascism?

[Marius25]

I'm having a hard time trying to comprehend what's about to happen. Will 70% of Americans tolerate Republicans turning us into the Republic of Gilead or Nazi Germany?

It feels like Civil War is inevitable to me. I honestly think we need to reform as separate countries, but I know that's not a popular opinion.

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. Yep. Apparently, many people actively want it.

Right up until it gets used against them. And then it’s already too late.

[gldstwmn]

7. Yes. Continue to slave away and make the billionaires money and they'll throw us some crumbs every

once in a while. Fascism is such a big picture concept that I don't know that some fully get it or are just too damn tired from working to be concerned with it. And now organized religion is in on it. People think social media is some sort of encyclopedia. That's Putin's doing. At least we are seeing the beginning of the end of hm I hope.

[maxsolomon]

2. Yes, as long as it's soft Fascism

Mainly we just have to make sure those uppity woke Libs and Blacks and Gays know their place.

[chowder66]

3. Maybe. There are those that haven't a clue what fascism is and those that don't pay attention.

Then there are those who actually want it because they think it will benefit them....they shouldn't count on that because the people at the top will devour those trying to get to the top or are also at the top.

[underpants]

8. Many have been turned to think the opposite of fascism is fascism

Classic Repub projection.

[Carlitos Brigante]

11. I've had coworkers in the past asking me what fascism means, when

I'd use the term. We're talking about college graduates in their 20s and 30s.

[keithbvadu2]

14. Those millions of republicans want an authoritarian gov't but they mistakenly think they will be the

Those millions of republicans want an authoritarian gov't but they mistakenly think they will be the few thousand elites actually in charge.

Those millions are useful tools for those who will actually be in charge.

One poster called it a 'new social feudalism age'.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Oligarchs pay no taxes; politicians get total permanent power; the people

get white christian rule.

Winning combination for them.

The rest of us are screwed.

[Cosmocat]

15. That is the math

Whatever kick back the idiots get they will blame us.

[BannonsLiver]

5. If their personal wants/needs are satisfied Americans will tolerate anything.

[NoMoreRepugs]

19. THIS. That explanation fits a tremendous number of our

fellow citizens.

[FoxNewsSucks]

20. That's true

As long as the MAGAts can get a 55" big screen for less than $200 at Walmart, they don't give a rat's ass about anything else.

[BadgerKid]

23. Bread and circuses

I think is the term.

[LiberatedUSA]

6. Well if things really turn bad...

…us atheists will have to pretend to believe in God in order to get by.

[brush]

9. There are more of us who pay attention and will fight it...

then the extreme rightist who want it. It's not written in stone that they will win. trump was supposed win and didn't and his coup attempt didn't work either.

Revelations are coming out daily of repug complicity all thru that admin.

[Marius25]

18. True, but...

None of those repugs are being held accountable. Not a single one of Trump's team has been arrested. Navarro still hasn't been charged. Meadows still not charged. No Republicans in Congress charged.

[FoxNewsSucks]

21. The fix is in.

Just like with the BBB and that infrastructure bill.

[Carlitos Brigante]

10. Have you met them?...... Or I should say, us. nt

[Cha]

12. We Didn't in 2020.. Hopefully We'll

Rally Again!

💙💛

[SoonerPride]

13. For black and brown people this has always been a fascist country

Stop and frisk.
Watch all interactions with police.

Followed in stores

This is a fascist country for black and brown people already.

[live love laugh]

16. We're all "tolerating" it right now.

[Hekate]

17. Call it something else, and the GOPers certainly will

“When Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross”

Apparently the saying is of uncertain origin (i.e. not Sinclair Lewis after all) but it endures because it is so true.

[cayugafalls]

22. The actual phrase is most likely an internet distillation of several other quotes.

There are some famous quotes that allude to a similar sentiment, as you stated it is not Sinclair Lewis (a book I own and have read).

The most relevant and truthful quote is in John Thomas Flynn’s As We Go Marching, published in 1944.

But when fascism comes it will not be in the form of an anti-American movement or pro-Hitler bund, practicing disloyalty. Nor will it come in the form of a crusade against war. It will appear rather in the luminous robes of flaming patriotism; it will take some genuinely indigenous shape and color, and it will spread only because its leaders, who are not yet visible, will know how to locate the great springs of public opinion and desire and the streams of thought that flow from them and will know how to attract to their banners leaders who can command the support of the controlling minorities in American public life. The danger lies not so much in the would-be Fuhrers who may arise, but in the presence in our midst of certainly deeply running currents of hope and appetite and opinion. The war upon fascism must be begun there.

This paragraph by Flynn is extremely unsettling in it's accuracy.

[Hekate]

26. Thanks for that quote, which I hadn't seen before. As far as the one-liner -- it came to me as a kid

…before even DARPA was born, much less the Internet. It was something my dear old mother said more than once to me. She was also of the opinion that we wouldn’t lose our country to an invasion, but that we would vote the enemy in.

RIP, Mom. I’m glad you didn’t have to live to see Trump.

[vercetti2021]

24. Over my dead body

Not gonna get me without a bloody fight

[ZonkerHarris]

25. Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America is a book written by Bertram Gross...in 1980

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Fascism_(book)

The book examines the history of fascism and, based on the growth of big business and big government, describes possible political scenarios for a future United States.[1][2][3] According to a 1981 review in the journal Crime and Social Justice, the book is described as "timely" on a subject requiring serious consideration and is about the dangers of fascism, focusing primarily on the United States, but being aware that monopoly capitalism needs to be understood internationally since capitalism "is not a national mode of production".[4]

In 2016, the book prompted the following response right after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States: "The next wave of fascists will not come with cattle cars and concentration camps, but they'll come with a smiley face and maybe a TV show. [...] That's how the 21st-century fascists will essentially take over".[5]

[Polybius]

27. If the gas is low and the stock market is up, then yes

I know three Romney Republicans who hated the Tweets, racism, and personality of Trump. Two didn't vote, one voted for Biden. All three said they will regret it, because of finances and Biden ending the remain in Mexico policy which has remained since Covid.