Short Summary
- Discusses how Trump or someone like him could potentially turn America into a fascist state in five steps.
- The first step involves using threats of violence to gain power, as seen with Trump’s attempts to intimidate voters and election officials in 2020.
- The second step is to consolidate power by turning every arm of government into a tool of the party, similar to Hitler’s actions in purging non-Nazis from the civil service.
- The third step is to establish a police state, with Trump planning to deploy troops for immigration raids and crackdowns on crime.
- The fourth step is to jail the opposition, with Trump openly threatening to prosecute his opponents and remake the Justice Department for personal vendettas.
- The final step is to undermine the free press, as a fascist regime needs to control the flow of information, which Trump has been attacking and threatening to punish news outlets.
- The video emphasizes the importance of recognizing the threat of fascism and taking action to prevent it from taking hold.
One thing that I’ve realized: Fascism is not strictly top down. It’s also bottom up. It’s the people on every rung (police, courts, whatever) that act on his behalf without being directly ordered.
Yeah it’s a weird concept called voluntary servitude, Étienne de La Boétie que about that in 1577.
Somehow people seem fond of the idea of a big leader.
I saw a lemmygrad post in which a college student was wondering if he should report a Chinese Co Ed that has said some things about xi to the Chinese government. It’s wonderful
I too, dropped it into summarize.tech to glean what it was saying haha
Edit: for reference, a really excellent tool to figure out the content of a video is without watching is summarize.tech
This is the AI summary
https://www.summarize.tech/www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSxJRIiCNs8
I was planning on it, you beat me there. But I wanted to make sure that people know that the summary was AI generated and they could use that same tool
