My grandfather supported a family of four on a single hose man income. The American dream was alive and well back then.

In other words, fascism is the elites playing games, and it’s sold to the people as a way to become liberated from would-be oppressors (imo at least)

“… He writes in Discourses, that ‘[i]t will be seen that in the former [the nobles] there is a great desire to dominate and in the latter [the People] merely the desire not be dominated.’”

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Reminds me of Machiavelli warning about the aristocrats always being up to no good. Terrorizing the common folks for their own gains or amusement.