That Salute Was No Accident

Going back to geopolitics, I really think this interview between James O’Brian and Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is worth watching. Ahmed is an expert in fascism, and he says that the recent deplorable behaviour we saw from Elon Musk was no accident: his nazi salute was clearly intentional, and a result of a covert resurgence which far right extremism has been making over the last two to three decades. Such people seek to end liberal democracy and return society to a sickening neo-Darwinian, elitist, discriminatory state where power resides only in the hands of a wealthy few. If that is true, then surely we must fight back. We cannot let ignorant, arrogant disgraces to humanity like Musk and Trump undo the precious steps towards equality and tolerance which we have made over the last sixty to seventy years. All thinking, intelligent people need to be aware of what is going on, in order to fight against it for the sake of humanity. If we don’t, there is a real risk we could return to history’s darkest days.

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