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Been a lot of chatter about the intellectual inconsistency of fascists in my feed, recently.
They're perfectly consistent, once you stop listening to their ridiculous lies: "I get what I want."
Fascism is not an ideology. There's no there, there. It's the worship of power.
Does Samuel Alito really want to live in the world his theology implies? Of course he doesn't.
He just wants you to live in that world.
@fatsam A former evangelical explained it once thus:
"I get to tell you what to do, you don't get to tell ME what to do."
Ultimately, every issue gets reduced to that.
Immigration: "YOU don't get to come here!"
Gay Marriage: "Don't tell ME what to do!"
Policing: "YOU ARE IN TROUBLE! You violated the law! You don't get to do that!"
Laws Enforced against them: "Don't tell ME what to do!"
People speaking Spanish: "You can't do that, also don't tell me to learn Spanish!"
Abortion: "You can't do that!"
Pronouns: "Don't tell me what to do!"
Voting: "You can't vote like that!"
Separation of Church and State: "Don't tell my church what to do!"
So this idea that we're really sizzling them by calling out their hypocrisies is old hat.
That the rules and laws apply to us and not them is a power flex. Being a hypocrite is a power flex, too.
Or as Frank Wilhoit said it:
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
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