Well, then you should study what fasicm is. It's vilification of group in society which you blame for problems you made. It already happened in Germany before.
That's not fascism or the vilification of a group. It's just common sense and for the greater good. Fascism is what the US is about to have for the next 4 years under Trump. And hopefully it's only 4 years.
That doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the sources. That's just disagreeing with my point. But how is imprisoning people for going outside not fascism?
I'm not disagreeing with your sources. I'm disagreeing with you. You're the one saying these actions are fascist. And I'm telling you it's not. I suggest you do some actual reading on fascism before sitting there saying that implementing public health measure for a once-in-a-century virus outbreak that's killed tens of millions is fascism.
Itโs vilification of group in society which you blame for problems you made
I think you should definitely let Umberto Eco know that his generally accepted definition of fascism is totally wrong. Of course, he did die in 2016, so that will be difficult.
On the other hand, unlike you, he actually lived in a fascist state and experienced fascism first-hand, so maybe he knew a thing or two about it.
Does that article change the fact that all of that happened while Trump was president? Because, and I donโt know if you know this, but you canโt change the past.
Consider that Donald Trump in his last term presided over the single most comprehensive impositions on the rights and liberties of all Americans, including shutting down on religious freedom and free enterprise itself, plus violating property rights of renters and even home owners to hold parties, not to mention exploding the budget in a way that broke all records. The controls wrecked education and plunged the population into deep ill-health and new levels of substance abuse, then poverty.
In this, he went beyond anything done by Wilson, FDR, or LBJ.
HERE IS THE TWIST
All his opponents only criticize him for not locking down sooner and staying locking down longer! Meanwhile, though he never talks about it, he worked to reverse his egregious errors from mid summer 2020 and after. But he had already lost power and was no longer in charge, and had become nothing but a pundit with social media that was taken down too with the urging of the bureaucracy now in control. It was the first coup of several that followed.
When the new government took over, it did not reverse the outrages but added to them. It imposed masks on the whole population and then conscripted the population to be biological subjects in an science experiment with a new form of vaccine that turned out to be useless at best, very often injurious, and deadly at worst.
So here we are: shocked at what Trump did but more than aware that all the viable alternatives hate him mostly because he was not totalitarian enough, while promising even more censorship and more control. Harris's own ads brag about the coming price controls on groceries and rents! And they call Trump the fascist.
I truly do not see how historians in 100 years will make sense of any of this
Sorry. You canโt change the past no matter what you paste. The things you donโt like happened while Trump was president. Lockdowns, masking, vaccine requirementsโฆ all happened under Trump. They even happened under Trump here in deep red Indiana.
I know youโre trying to gaslight history away, but youโre bad at it.
Yes, you have the right not to vaccinate, but if you do, your presence will jepordize the saftey of anyone around you, particularly those who medically can't vaccinate.
It is not oppression to say that if you make a medical choice that threatens other people's safety, businesses and institutions and not required to allow you to risk the saftey of their other patrons
There was also that ban on drink driving, where measures were put in place to stop people doing things that could kill them and just as likely others, but it meant you no longer have the FREEDOM to control what goes into your body and do what you want.
Good regulations exist for a reason - you are welcome to show me your doctorate dissertation that disagrees.