The comments celebrating Renee Good’s death reveal a pattern familiar to anyone who has studied authoritarian movements. It’s the same impulse that filled Roman coliseums & medieval execution squares.
The comments celebrating Renee Good’s death reveal a pattern familiar to anyone who has studied authoritarian movements. It’s the same impulse that filled Roman coliseums & medieval execution squares.
“This is the psychology of fascism, and it doesn’t require jackboots or swastikas. It just requires enough people who have learned to derive pleasure from watching the state hurt the right people.”
Is it just pleasure or is there also something like the joy of the relief of “choosing the right side, the one which is powerful, the one which can protect them”? This is an honest question.
The other thing I’d like to mention and what I think also plays a role in this: US Americans are indoctrinated from a very young age, that their country is the one with the most freedom, the best constitution, the greatest presidents, … and in addition to this they rarely get any news about other countries, other political solutions to problems we are all facing. Which means a lot of US Americans don’t know that there are better political solutions, they don’t know that there are other countries more free than them and they also don’t know they don’t have the best constitution.
Yep. They basically have a state religion, where they venerate the founding fathers, pray to a flag, and venerate the constitution like it’s a religious text.