The goal is clear, but the system was designed to withstand the blow.
The system was largely designed over two hundred years ago, and fascism was designed to take advantage of its inadequacies.
The Weimar Republic was modeled after the American government, and fell to the same gridlock and political schisms we are seeing happen today.
The system does not have a way to hamper fascism because fascism is a revolutionary force. The goal isn’t to command the current government, but to destroy it and replace it with another.
As I see it, their only real goal is to make the government so dysfunctional that the people will demand a strong man to come and fix it all. And I think most people will say they’ve been doing a fine job at that.
Yeah, we’re seeing it a lot right now. Our government was designed to work when everyone is operating in good faith. It has nothing to defend against that not being the case
It’s designed to block a few bad faith attackers. The problem is the GOP decided to embrace bad actors from the core, and that rot has taken over the entire party.
Now it’s not a few bad faith actors, it’s half the electorate, who have also been systematically appointing their bad faith cronies in unelected positions.
Edit - And by a few, I mean less than 1/3rd. The constitution is designed for all political parties to band together and oust the bad actors in a 2/3rd majority.
But GOP allowed themselves to be fully taken over by fascists, and those that aren’t full fascists in ideology won’t even make a stand. Those that did are already out, and never tried to organize to stand together with the Dems to remove the zealots.
The system was largely designed over two hundred years ago, and fascism was designed to take advantage of its inadequacies.
The Weimar Republic was modeled after the American government, and fell to the same gridlock and political schisms we are seeing happen today.
The system does not have a way to hamper fascism because fascism is a revolutionary force. The goal isn’t to command the current government, but to destroy it and replace it with another.
As I see it, their only real goal is to make the government so dysfunctional that the people will demand a strong man to come and fix it all. And I think most people will say they’ve been doing a fine job at that.
Yeah, we’re seeing it a lot right now. Our government was designed to work when everyone is operating in good faith. It has nothing to defend against that not being the case
It’s designed to block a few bad faith attackers. The problem is the GOP decided to embrace bad actors from the core, and that rot has taken over the entire party.
Now it’s not a few bad faith actors, it’s half the electorate, who have also been systematically appointing their bad faith cronies in unelected positions.
Edit - And by a few, I mean less than 1/3rd. The constitution is designed for all political parties to band together and oust the bad actors in a 2/3rd majority.
But GOP allowed themselves to be fully taken over by fascists, and those that aren’t full fascists in ideology won’t even make a stand. Those that did are already out, and never tried to organize to stand together with the Dems to remove the zealots.
Trump’s presidency highlighted just how much “spit and a handshake” the US government really is.