Economic democracy. What an idea.
I’m trying to figure out JD Vance and as far as I can tell so far, he thinks he and the American people are oppressed by the oligarchy of the deep state, elite colleges, and the news media? Vance has turned this all around and thinks he is the people, that is trying to break free of their political and economic oppression, to usher in a libertarian utopia.
I don’t think democracy needs to exist for fascism to exist.
The ruling class enforcing the hierarchy accomplishes what Douglas describes.
He’s describing a very specific situation here. It also doesn’t require fashion choices like he said.
Look up the concept of “Elite Panic”.
The academic concept of Elite Panic is actually more about how wealthy elites view mutal aid activities (communities helping themselves to survive - people helping people outside of state assistace programs) during times if crisis.
It turns out that in multiple real world disaster examples elites see humans self-organising as a direct threat that needs to be combatted with state forces of organization - such as police and military intervention.
This is because Elite Panic is really about a kind of fear that the poorer classes are going to use disasters as an excuse to kill the nearest rich person (rather than act with any sense of shared humanity or community in mind).
In response Elites tend to demand that police/governments shoot “looters” and anyone that isn’t official basically. Elites demand forms of “Command and Control” fascism in disasters because they’re paranoid and fearful of poor people.
That’s basically the academic concept/theory under the name “Elite Panic”. They get very twtchy, demanding, and needy during disasters, projecting their paranoia and spending most of the time demanding state action like an over indulged Karen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_panic
Behind the Bastards did an episode about it:
Sigh…
And now his home province is one of the hotbeds of rural reactionary populism
Pendulums of humans.
The only fix is to have a critical mass of living humans have enough historical education to see the pattern so they can learn the lesson.
