On confronting facism

Facism invariably arises as a response to percieved social and economic crises, cynically manipulated by demagogues for their own personal power. Clearly then the best antidote to this kind of thought and action is to begin to eliminate the fertile soil upon which it flourishes. That is to say, we must begin to truly open things up, provide opportunities for the disenfranchised to
improve their lives and circumstances without resorting to scapegoating or demonizing other human beings.
Most of all, we must all constantly work at providing the counterpoint to these outrageous lies and accusations, revealing them to be the baseless bigotry that they are by always appealing to solidly based facts and reason, rather than emotion and opinion.
The silent majority must undertake the burden of its responsibility to guide society in a new, constructive direction. We can longer afford to be complacent, sitting back on the sidelines, watching everything fall apart in the name of some kind of missplaced tolerance or laissez-faire approach to freedom. It does no good to remain silent or apathetic when so much is at stake, when the language of the opposition grows ever more incidiary, and words begin to give way to actions.
What is desperately needed is an integrated strategy, based on common values (as previously outlined), that breaks down both the psychological and actual borders between the various moderate groups of individuals.
The social structure must be defended against the creep of extreme right-wing ideology, that growing spectre of facism that casts its poisonous shadow over the free lands of the earth.
There is no reward in remaining complacent- not when so much is at stake. We should not lull ourselves into believing that this cannot happen in this day and age, after all, one need only look at the headlines to discern the deeper currents of discontent and rage that are simmering just unde the surface, threatening to boil over. And as the economic climate grows ever more precarious these tendencies will only increase, becoming more overt, more tloerated and accepted as legitimate. Add to this the burden of a literal changing climate, and you have a recipie for a distaster of unprecedented enormity.We, the hitherto silent majority, must arm ourselves, not with guns and weapons, but with information, tactics, and strategy, if we are ever to have any hope of deterring this rising tide.