Read on Twitter
The UK is not close to the stage the US is at, but people who, for years, dismissed concerns about where the US was heading as scaremongering should maybe sit down and have a think before arguing that “the US is not like the UK, stop scaremongering”
Maybe your fucking fetish for being sensible lead to be you being blindsided by what was growing. And maybe, just maybe, the people raising alarms in this country now, because they can see five minutes into the future, are worth listening to to avoid being blinsided again.
There’s a self-satisfied quote I’ve heard before, but can’t find again, that posited that the reason fascism never gained a proper foothold in Britain is because it was too silly, that the goose steps and the saluting was all just too ridiculous to be taken seriously.
And it was right, just not quite in the way it meant. “Fascism” won’t ever gain a foothold in Britain because we’ve been conditioned to only identify fascism in its most overt and unsubtle form.
So we congratulate ourselves on not being Nazis, in the literal sense of not being members of the NSDAP, all the while cheerily ignoring that every year things become a little more normalised, a little less taboo, and a little more rationalised in the collective consciousness
I do not think the worst outcome is inevitable. But more and more I think that if we do not end up in a very dark place, it will be because of luck and luck alone
But really, the rubicon was crossed when a sitting MP was assassinated in broad daylight and most of the political class shrugged its shoulders at the wider implications. In a way, we’ve normalised shit faster than America has
Say what you like about the US response to Sandy Hook, it remains a rallying cry for gun control advocates.
I’m not sure a huge chunk of the UK political class, let alone your average person, even remember who Jo Cox was
I’m not sure a huge chunk of the UK political class, let alone your average person, even remember who Jo Cox was
