Well, there will at least be historians in other countries covering the downfall in detail, if there is indeed a bigger downfall than has already happened.
Democracies are pretty good at studying the failures of other countries and learning about them.
That's always an open question. Fascism does frequently collapse into other authoritarian regimes, too. But fascism itself will always fail.
It is a movement motivated by the petty grievances of cowards and fools, and the same hate and violence they project outward always turns inward at the end.
Fair. Though based on previous experiments fascist regimes aren’t that stable and competent, they have a tendency to self-destruct once they are in power. It’s a sad state of affairs that is considered optimistic
Yeah, as Norm Macdonald put it:
> “It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?”
Well, there will at least be historians in other countries covering the downfall in detail, if there is indeed a bigger downfall than has already happened.
Democracies are pretty good at studying the failures of other countries and learning about them.
‘and learning about them’
I’m not at all convinced about this part.
Optimistic, this requires a civilization to have a history.
>the arc of history to bend towards non-fascism.
From wikipedia: "Fascism [...] rose to prominence primarily in Europe of the interwar period"
So what were humans doing for all the thousands of years after the advent of recorded history but before that?
Fascism with a different name
Fascism always collapses, the question is only how much will remain by the time that occurs.
And whether or not what replaces it is any better. Historically speaking, widespread democracy is still a recent development.
That's always an open question. Fascism does frequently collapse into other authoritarian regimes, too. But fascism itself will always fail.
It is a movement motivated by the petty grievances of cowards and fools, and the same hate and violence they project outward always turns inward at the end.
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What definition of fascism are you using? Is China fascist?
> What definition of fascism are you using?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
> Is China fascist?
What a strange and completely irrelevant question.
Fair. Though based on previous experiments fascist regimes aren’t that stable and competent, they have a tendency to self-destruct once they are in power. It’s a sad state of affairs that is considered optimistic