"In my own experience as an analyst in U.S. Central Command who studied #insurgency, I estimated that 👉you only needed 10 to 15 percent of the population to be supportive of the insurgents 👈to get a situation like what I saw in Iraq in 2005–2006. In short, you...
...don’t need all that many people dedicated to dictatorship, theocracy, or any other awful possibility to absolutely collapse a country into barbarism...
....the 👉best-case scenario is that only 14 percent of voters are really dedicated to installing a #fascist#dictatorship👈. However, history tells us that that is a sufficient critical...
When [journalist, educator, and author] #MiltonMayer visited #Germany in the early 1950s to interview former low-level members of the #Nazi party, he concluded that 👉perhaps only a million out of 70 million #Germans were “Fanatiker” (fanatics or true believers)👈—the rest were just along for...
...resist, the guardrails of individual conscience will evaporate faster than a snow flurry in hell."
"#BrynnTannehill is a #NavalAcademy graduate, former naval aviator, author, and senior defense analyst. She currently lives in Northern Virginia with her wife and three children. "
@BrynnTannehill74 A larger proportion of Americans than that explicitly want a democratic socialist country: one where the rich are heavily taxed and the poor are taken care of. But the US political system fights that off just fine, because no elites want it. The problem isn't that a percent of voters admit they want fascism but that almost all of the political elite want it at least a little bit - all GOP and most Dem elites think fascism would suit them just fine.
@peltast@BrynnTannehill74 I fear you are absolutely correct in your assessment. Your concluding sentence really stood out to me - “When Trump takes power and turns the full might of the government against anyone who might resist, the guardrails of individual conscience will evaporate faster than a snow flurry in hell.” As someone who does not live in USA I greatly fear what effect this American fascism will have globally.
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