I’ve always been curious how fascism takes hold, and how people like Hitler, Stalin. etc rise to power. Do people not see what is happening? Shouldn’t hindsight, foresight and common sense kick in at some point? I used t think they were like mob bosses early on - anyone disagreeing with them ends up in a barrel, but surely were civilized and educated by now?

It seems the people don’t want to jeopardize their comfortable livelihoods and individual lives so expect the ‘powerful elected officials’ to do their bidding. After all, the public gave them the power to do just that. Otoh, the politicians don’t want to jeopardize their cushy jobs and accumulated power by challenging the majority, so are waiting for the public to start a jan6 situation so they can point and say, ‘see, the people are unhappy so we should act’.

It’s a shitstorm of no consequences and a man child hacking away at the country and no one seems to be doing anything meaningful. I’m literally watching fascism take place.

History/ psychology/ sociology majors care to chime in?

    • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
      11·
      13 hours ago

      It absolutely is finite, there is an economic theory that says wealth is theoretically infinite, but it’s theory, not reality.

        • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
          21·
          10 hours ago

          1 is a finite number

          1+1 is a finite number

          1+? Is a finite number, even if you don’t know what it is

          If you look at the amount of currency at any given point in time you can absolutely track every debt and dollar to a number, the fact that that number is always changing does not stop it from being finite.

          You’re really embarrassing yourself here

          • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
            1·
            8 hours ago

            So in your opinion, infinite doesn’t exist? If you can keep printing money whenever you want, no, the amount of currency in existence is not finite. What is the limit of how much of a currency can be created? What is the limit of USD? If it’s finite then you should be able to answer.

            You’re really embarrassing yourself here

            Not me who’s doing that lol. You just said this lol…

            1+? Is a finite number, even if you don’t know what it is

            • dangercake@feddit.uk
              1·
              6 hours ago

              Is human population infinite too? More babies are made all the time, i don’t know if there’s a limit to how many can be born