On Fascism and Facts – UKIP – The Strategic Adversary?
Fascism – the Strategic Adversary?
From Prue Plumridge
‘The strategic adversary is fascism … the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behaviour. The fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.’
Michel Foucault.
Alex Andreou wrote in the New Statesman’ ‘The danger with extremism is that, when filtered through eyes and minds of reasonable people, it appears ridiculous. The reasonable assumption is that others will view it through the same filter and find it equally ridiculous. But, while The Reasonable laugh, support for extremist views creeps up. Because what The Reasonable fail to notice is that fear and insecurity have a way of robbing others of reason. Instead, if you find yourself nodding in agreement with a couple of items on Ukip’s long list of empty promises, remember all the other things you will also…
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