Been interested in the last part of this quote for awhile, what need of humans does fascism appeal to? Security? Righteousness?
Shoutout from the physicist in me to @bjchippindale.bsky.social's take that economics breaking conservation of energy, though like language, I'm not sure it applies.
Why is the descent into oligarchy and fascism so historically inevitable that Benjamin Franklin predicted ours so well?
It is the money, of course, but what is it about our money that makes it so useful and, at the same time, so poisonous to the body politic?