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It’s blatant fascism in its first stages.

I have witnessed that people throw the word “fascism” out as a thought-terminating cliché in year 2024 and year 2025, to end conversation and stop thinking.

fascism in its first stages.

Bill Moyers, who used to be a director in the White House, and has direct education from Joseph Campbell when he filmed the Power of Myth series with George Lucas back in 1986 and 1987 already declared it was first stage back in March 2016. https://billmoyers.com/story/trump-the-american-fascist/

We are so far beyond first-stage in April 2025. But beyond that, what concerns me in my message you replied to is that it people don’t recognize that all dehumanization / mass dehumanization is bad. People seem to get very fixated on single topics like gender and “red states” vs “blue states” and not goodness itself. People are flocking to values of “Hate Harder”, and I don’t care if they are MAGA or against MAGA, support Trump or hate Donald Trump, if they are preaching dehumanization and “hate harder” then they are adding fuel to the bonfire of humanism.