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.
Someone who is racist or fascist by definition rejects the notion that justice ought to be applied equally and just about anything else that you would likely consider moral or proper.
And fascism also is not a function of wealth inequality. Fascism has historically grown out of the middle-class. Seymour Martin Lipset identified fascism as "Extremismus der Mitte" in Germany. It's well at home in the petite bourgeoisie or in the US I guess you'd say the suburban middle class.
As to people believing that justice should be applied equally—you’ll find few Americans who disagree with that. What you’ll find is a lot of people who disagree about what that means.
The final point is a random left-wing wishlist item that has nothing to do with fighting “fascism.”
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.
This is not a solved problem, so I can not provide you an answer on how to fix it. Hence please see my last sentence in my previous post:
Life is not fair and will not be, until we find a way to make everyone equal and provide equal opportunities.
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).
I see fear behind most of the worst behavior in our modern politics. Education goes a long way to address fear.
Want politically charged? I suspect the reason the U.S. has its current president is due in part to a emasculated voting class lashing out from feelings of powerlessness. Education would have gone a long way to making them feel more relevant in a constantly changing economy/society.
I would say the perception that the system is rigged toward the elite and that the masses will never attain any measure of wealth is directly correlated to the populist election of a president (with fascist leanings) that we see right now in the U.S.
But perhaps I am ignorant of the term "fascist".
I also think it is likely necessary to do so if we intend for humanity to move forward.
