Why Fascism Is Fashionable Again

At least it acknowledges that there’s a big problem

Smashing liberalism is actually appealing

I actually understand the far-right more than I understand ‘centrist’ liberals. People are the center seem to want to remain in this shit, while people at the right at least want to get away. In the wrong direction, but I understand the motivation. This to me is the appeal of fascist leaders. They at least admit that something is terribly wrong.

Hence when Italy’s new supposedly fascist leader Giorgia Meloni says:

Why is the family an enemy?… Because it is our identity… so they attack national identity, they attack religious identity, they attack gender identity, they attack family identity. I can’t define myself as Italian, Christian, woman, mother. No. I must be citizen x, gender x, parent 1, parent 2. I must be a number. Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators. The perfect consumer.

I understand. She is at least talking about the problem of the destruction of family, of community, of faith, of meaning, all sacrificed on the altar of consumerism. The fundamentally unsatisfying existence of an atomized wage slave, opiated with consumer goods. I vehemently disagree with where she goes with this (trans people and Muslims…