> People cheer for fascism when it aligns with their own ideas.
I truly resent being told I’m cheering for fascism because I don’t want my friends or family, or myself, to die from a highly contagious disease. I can only imagine that the same people calling this collective effort against community transmission of this virus fascism would have also called the orientation of all industries to the war effort during WWII fascism.
Fascism to me is sending people to work during a pandemic because the bottom line is being affected. “We’re all in this together,” and the workers aren’t pulling their weight.
The "put the genie back in the bottle" train left the station in February/March. Now this is just outrage at the sake of outrage, starting to feel almost like a religion.
This isn’t an expansion of government power. This is an expression of exactly what government power is supposed to be for. If a government can’t effectively respond to a major pandemic, what good is responsible government for exactly? (I know there are some people who would call for a significantly reduced role of government in public life, e.g. to military defence and the enforcement of contracts, but I don’t fall into this category and the reasoning for this is almost always pure ideology.)
You also talk as if this virus is scaremongering ... there have been over 200000 people who have died over the course of 5 months due to this virus; it is highly contagious, and there is no cure on the horizon. As far as I’m concerned, we’ve got a lot to fear. The best way to manage that fear isn’t to imagine the threat isn’t real, but to meet it a measured and responsible way. Many countries, of which the US is in some ways a unique exception, have done this.
That is not actually the definition of fascism. Fascism isn't "when the government does stuff". One of the defining features of fascism is state-capital cooperation (and indeed corruption).
I truly resent being told I’m cheering for fascism because I don’t want my friends or family, or myself, to die from a highly contagious disease. I can only imagine that the same people calling this collective effort against community transmission of this virus fascism would have also called the orientation of all industries to the war effort during WWII fascism.
Fascism to me is sending people to work during a pandemic because the bottom line is being affected. “We’re all in this together,” and the workers aren’t pulling their weight.