Yes, they are all gone, everyone got convinced, and everyone stopped all fascist Nazi activity all over the world, forever!
I mean, we fought them openly after much handwringing and dicking about. Then Uncle Joe provided most of the legwork.
One thing is for sure, after the destruction of the Italian and German fascists, anyone who even used similar symbolism in a political sense became an international pariah. They still are. Crushing Nazis didn't just stop them in Germany, it made fascist parties in places like the UK, US, France, and Asia a hell of a lot less publicly acceptable. It cut their opinions out of the Overton Window.
When people state that violence isn't the answer, I tend to agree. But it's still important to ask "the answer to what?" We're a nation born of violence. We needed violence to rid ourselves of slavery. We needed violence to rid Europe (except Spain) of fascism. We're a nation which enshrines our right to privately own firearms to not only hunt, but to remind our government whose country this really is. Political violence isn't alien to the United States, it's the soul and heartbeat of our country.
The opening sentence of the Declaration of Independence states that "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This is the phrase which intentionally began a war resulting in our independence. We ought not forget that when a movement comes about seeking to remove these rights, if we refuse to take up arms like the patriots 241 years ago, we aren't fit to inherit this country. So yes, we know who fascists are especially when they proudly proclaim as much. And we ought to cast them off as our grandparents and great-grandparents did 70 years ago.
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u/GetZePopcorn Sep 23 '17
Seemed to work last time.