A Closer Look at Liberalism, and Why Liberals Last For Centuries and Fascists Don't

[ancianita]

1. Some thoughts:

The power that fascism promises is appealing. But it's a false freedom, which is why fascists don't run nations for long. Fascists never last for a good reason -- Antifascists -- liberals who allow live and let live governance -- appeal to the drives of the most humans for just freedoms, not "conferred" freedoms.

Humans always resist dominators.
Evolution does not support fascists' domination. Evolution supports liberal cooperation.

Deep down, humans know who the enemies of humanity are.

2. Today's skirmishes:

Friend-of-a-friend's tweet on the appearance of where things stand in Kenosha.

" Love that the liberal takeaway from the Kenosha shootings is "Nobody needs an AR-15" rather than "oh my fucking god the police are working with and protecting militia members."

You guys are utterly helpless in the face of fascism."

My Liberal response:

Liberals know that fascism is an ideology and an abstraction.
Liberals know when they face fascists.
To be antifa, liberals know to be anti-fascist, not anti-fascism.

Liberals DO attack access to the tools of fascists.

So this criticism is bogus.

Liberals have lasted longer than fascists for a lot of fucking good reasons. Knowing how to live and let live is only one of them.

Seattle friend's FB post:

The Kenosha government’s fatal flaw is thinking they can appease these people.
Nope.
It means now they own you, and if you ever want to gain control again you’re going to have to take severely drastic measures.
Kenosha police and government have made a grave error.
This is a small early skirmish in what is clearly a civil war already underway.
Unlike the last civil war, this one is going to drag on for decades.
Just like our wars in the Middle East.

My Liberal response:

This skirmish came from insurgents who seek power over justice, and use an unjust killing to put on a "show" of power.
Real thinkers know how to control insurgencies so that they don't develop into civil war.

Politics is civil -- as in civilized -- war.

It is how the players play that affects the outcome of the game: win-win (both without too much loss of face) or win-lose (killing off competition of ideas and the people who produce them).

One side really wants freedom, justice and empowerment for everyone; the other side really wants freedom only for themselves, unjust order and power for the few.

Actual weapons are the refuge of the stupid and fearful. Those who think better than they can beat them and their weapons.

Yes, Kenosha government has more thinking to do. No flaws are "fatal."

3. Why Liberals Outlast Fascism
Momentum only appears to be toward civil war in the U.S. Don't believe the hype. These skirmishes are provocations.

The Liberals' homework preparation, openness and consistency of their accomplishments are what people prefer to the secrecy and unpredictability of mad power abusers.

Human momentum is still toward LIB, the base meaning of FREE.

Liberals read Sun Tzu and prefer reality. Fascists don't read and prefer stories.