Fascism as an ideology has been growing rapidly across the planet, and we are now firmly in its grip. It’s not what’s in the news which should be alarming you, but what isn’t. For example, during this pandemic the majority of people dying are the old and the sick – and no one cares. In most places people are not just sighing with relief, but are ready to start reopening now that they know it’s only immunocomprised sick people and the warehoused old in care homes who are dying in large numbers. The subtext is that the old and the disabled are unimportant, the formal adoption of which was marked the start of the Nazi regime.
We’ve seen rising backlash against the poor, the homeless, and the disabled, and in most places they’re being quietly encouraged to die through neglect and the slow strangulation of resources. Here in Ontario, the provincial Conservative government had a document leak which told hospitals that if they have a choice about who gets a ventilator, they are to give it to an otherwise healthy person rather than someone who is disabled; only the disabled community cares, and the media has barely reported it.
The reason people should be concerned is that history tells us it only starts with the poor, the sick, and the old. The number of people thrown under the wheels of the bus begins to slowly increase: communists, anarchists, trade unionists, roma, jews, and so on, boiling the frog until death squads are roaming the streets freely. But history also tells me that no one will care until they find themselves on the wrong side of the boot, and by then it will be too late.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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