Dr. Richard Wolff on Hartmann: America is one great depression away from Fascism

A lot of these threads, on here and 4/pol/ alike, always seem to ignore normies and liberals. Not to pull a It Cant Happen Here or anything, but how/why would any sort of oppressive fascism of the '30s reappear in the US? I just don't think most people would take it laying down, even if they're filthy libs and neocons. Groucho Totalitarianism a la modern Italy or crackdown era Regan is far more believable, and likely, desu.

Which will solve nothing if it happens.

I think you're underestimating how spineless liberal normies are. They'll take the path that leads to the least amount of conflict for them personally.

Libs gonna lib. But to think that every single lib and neocon is just going to do nothing is pretty ridiculous, imo. These are the guys who pulled the youth and aids riots of the '60s and '80s after all.

None of this is to say that they'll be effective or even helpful, but let's not just call them passive and forget they exist. They're still the vast majority of the American populous.

your thinking is exactly that of cuckdems from 1930s, or at least what they argued. "hitler will have to play by the rules", they said. well, he didn't. and it's not dependend on just trump. his entire clique, the military, many more people, they are all interested in violently oppressing any resistance to what is yet to come. those cuts on social spending will have an effect. and the radicalisation has only just begun to show itself.
it is going to happen.

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That very rhetoric is being destroyed by lib media right now though. I just refuse to be overly pessimistic about all of this. These aren't invincible people we're up against. Libs are finally starting to wake up again. Especially when you have Cornell West explicitly defending and promoting the anarchists.

Well it removes a president that is lowkey assisting fascism. That said he didn't invent racism and that and the knife edge economy will still be there.

and the SPD did attack hitler as anti-democratic and so on back then too. there is really not much different today.

the tools to shut down opposition are already there, created in the "ar against terror". it's not just street violence that played a role back then or now. the system has already been prepared for a fascist takeover. it's far more subtle than you make things out to be. just as in the 30's. then too the cuckdems had already created and used laws to shut down and even shoot up protests. it will happen again, it will cause radicalisation, it will create more restictive laws and those existing be more abused.

But liberals fought in the Spanish Civil War and overthrew the French Monarchy. It's absolutely in our best interest to encourage liberals to return to '60s styled revolts, even if they aren't far enough. Divide & Conquer.