Shiny happy people, of one mind, destroying the other… is collectivism. In this, both the left and right can be collectivist. Fasism is, correctly defined as working in unity.
The essence of fascism is not moustache-twirling fellows yelling and marching – or even that one video of paper-pushing flaboid Ferdy MooMoo’s In Mala Fide’s childhood. It’s the smiley face, the happy team striving against the bad guy (found in almost any action movie or 80s cartoon), the “we all agree and are nice friends, except that One Loserly Yet Wicked Source of All Evil that must be dealt with” – it’s inherent to human nature and nice leftists, like nice elementary school kids, are some of its finest practitioners.
via Escapist.
Trouble is that this does not allow badthink. Badthink is seen as not belonging to the group. And this is punished, particularly by the left, for they have not graduated from the schoolyard.
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