Fascist politians are not rare individuals, they're a structural problem. Why would someone go through all the rigamarole to gain authority via public office if s/he didn't plan to use the hell out of it? There's a systemic bias toward authoritarianism in representative democracy. Which is ideally balanced out by the populace voting out fascists, but we've seen how well that works.
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Date: 2007-03-22 04:16 pm (UTC)