What are talking about? I don’t know where you’re from or where you currently live but I can tell you that everything you mentioned is still alive and well in my world. That said, I have no idea what jinkies are. Born and raised in Mass and I never heard that outside of Scooby Doo.
6. Fascism grows and seeks consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the fear of difference. It is racist by definition. It appeals to the frustrated middle classes.
5. The Enlightenment and the Age of Reason were seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense, fascism can be defined as irrationalism. And irrationalism depends on the cult of action for action's sake. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Dissent is betrayal.
4. The first characteristic of fascism is the cult of tradition. There can be no advancement of learning. The truth has already been announced once and for all, and all we can do is continue interpreting its obscure message.
2. Behind a regime and its ideology there is always a way of thinking and feeling, a series of cultural habits, a nebula of obscure instincts and unfathomable drives.
1. Mussolini's fascism was based on the idea of the charismatic leader, on corporatism, on utopia, on the imperialistic will to conquer new lands, and on inflammatory nationalism. Sound familiar?
@DudeShoes I'm about 35 miles from Indian Point. We had 20 to 30 seconds of rumbling. Felt similar to standing next to those rolling machines they use when paving. Fortunately not strong enough to do any damage. Just an odd experience!