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you aren't one of those who counseled a vote for Biden because Trump is a fascist?

for getting ranked-choice voting in your locale?

In response to the McGovern candidacy, the Democratic Party adopted a voting framework of "superdelegates," unelected party notables who are granted votes in Presidential nominating conventions. Presumably this policy was enacted to make the Democratic Party more difficult to take over from the "outside" -- i.e. by peace candidates.

Hitler took six weeks to establish dictatorial power over Germany. Trump had four years, and was defeated in an election by a senile old man. Were gangs of brownshrts roaming America terrorizing unionists? Were children right and left forcibly inducted into Trump Youth organizations? If there were "fascists" ruling America, they were too few in number to matter.

Even the Russians and Ukrainians in power today, Putin and Zelenskyy and their cronies, pretend to believe in democracy. They just outlaw the parties which would matter, more or less in the way that Daniel Ortega outlaws the parties that matter as de facto dictator of Nicaragua. Neither Hitler nor Mussolini nor even Francisco Franco bothered with any democratic veneer, claiming outright to be dictators. Fascism was motivated by nostalgia for dictatorship -- Hitler was appointed by old guys who pined for the rule of the Kaiser. The closest America has had to a fascist President was George W. Bush, but even he gave up power after two terms.

If fascism were what ruled us right here and now, we would not be allowed to have this conversation. Someone in a room somewhere in the United States would delete our posts, and JtC would have no say in the matter.

Part of what the historic fascists did was to revive their economies as they killed thousands. Hitler created a lot of desk office and munitions industry jobs at the beginning of his tenure as dictator. Today economies falter and the point of Putin and Zelenskyy is to defend oligarchies of thieves. The problem for these people is that, unlike the historic fascists, they live in an era in which capitalism has maxed out its frontiers and there is nowhere new to grow into. Musk and Bezos, like little boys, pretend that outer space is the place for their capitalism while they prepare to exploit it in a day which will never come.

Now capitalism is a well-defined term. Capitalism is a system which features the exploitation of wage labor for the profit of capitalists, rule by the balance sheet, and appropriation of the world so it can be molded in the image of capital resources. Capitalism, like fascism, is a characteristic of a phase of human history, one which in capitalism's case should end in a few decades. But unlike fascism, it's a stock belief of this era that capitalism is eternal and will last forever. Fascism is an old term people want to revive, today, because people have trouble defining their political enemies. "Assholes" and "kleptocrats" are tried and trusted terms. "Inverted totalitarianism" and "managed democracy" are defined precisely as terms. I recommend their revival into our lexicons.

I'm sure you have cred as far as your knowledge of historic fascism is concerned. How much of a comparison have you done with current events?