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>>dredmo+(OP)
What can we do, as a community, to limit the spread of fascism? It seems that it's quite a problem.

>>Kednic+q5
As a start:

Education.

People need to believe justice is applied equally: white as well as black, rich as well as poor.

Close the extreme and growing wealth gap in the country.

>>JKCalh+s6
The wealth gap will not be closed, unless an economic wipe (e.g. a world war again) occurs.

>>csunbi+17
Well than here we go, why is this, and what can be done to rectify it before that happens?

>>Aviceb+l7
It is actually simple: The wealth gap will not close, because not everybody is born equal.

Wealthy people will have wealthy kids (the right of inheritance), kids can use the wealth to increase their wealth because they will have more opportunities to exploit.

Poor people will have poor kids, which wont have enough opportunities to exploit and will probably stay poor.

It just snowballs from here, unless you wipe the economy and make everyone equal again. But then a couple of people will get wealthy again, does not matter if pure luck or skill, and the trend will continue.

Life is not fair and will not be, until we find a way to make everyone equal and provide equal opportunities.

>>csunbi+C8
I believe you have touched upon the fundamental problem.

We severely reduced inherited political power in the West. It was bloody and painful, but it was accomplished.

We can reduce or remove inherited economic power also. Hopefully it doesn't have to be so bloody (I am not so sure).

>>aniro+sb
Bertrand Russell, in one of his more political books (I forget which—maybe New Hopes for a Changing World?) points out how odd it is that we now consider the notion that people would inherit titles & positions obviously silly and can't even understand how anyone ever took it seriously, but consider inherited wealth completely normal and questioning it as radical.

>>karate+0e
This is pretty off-topic but I've read a lot of Russell, and I just want to point out that he was declared unfit to teach by the judiciary owing to his political beliefs. Just to disabuse anyone of the notion that the United States values free speech and expression.