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Originally Posted by Elspode
Isn't it somewhat more reasonable to think that those who already *have* power and position also have a better shot at becoming fascists?
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Not really. That's still the kind of fever-swamp thinking that discredits the hotheaded radicals. This is a republic, and to be chosen by the electorate to exert power you have to show you have your ducks in a row. There are plenty of quasi-fascist fringies who try for office, some office, any office, in any general or special election you care to look at. But the fringies tally about a dozen votes apiece, which isn't even a drop in the bucket in a city like mine where voting precincts are between a thousand and twelve hundred registered voters in every one.
When you've been raised in a democracy, and not a one-party state like where Clinton came from, the political instincts you develop keep you away from fascism. The Left, out in the cold these many years, would like you not to understand that. The Left is mostly full of little round greenish things horses leave.