{"id":5800,"date":"2022-11-02T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2022-11-02T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T02:43:08","slug":"a-necessary-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5800","title":{"rendered":"A Necessary Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nJfFPaKiew4\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nJfFPaKiew4\">Biden&#8217;s speech<\/a> was necessary. It wasn&#8217;t the speech I would give about the current situation, of course, but Biden is in a vastly different situation than I am in and his politics are not mine. That said, the basics were correct: the coming election is a choice between autocracy and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question is: do enough Americans care enough about democracy? To paraphrase what I wrote in an earlier article, if we have a fascism-friendly public, then fascism becomes basically inevitable. I chose the term &#8220;fascism-friendly&#8221; deliberately; it <em>is not<\/em> necessary for the public to be majority fascist. All that is necessary is for enough of the public to be friendly to the idea of maybe giving fascism a little whirl and seeing how it goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the very concept that fascism can be given a little whirl is fatally flawed: once fascists get power, they don&#8217;t easily give it up. Then the regrets kick in, but it is too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden&#8217;s speech was necessary. It wasn&#8217;t the speech I would give about the current situation, of course, but Biden is in a vastly different situation than I am in and his politics are not mine. That said, the basics were correct: the coming election is a choice between autocracy and democracy. The question is: do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5801,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}