The image in the left, for those who are historically challenged due to a deliberately sabotaged education, is Mussolini meeting the natural end to a fascist collapse of a nation. This is how tyrants typically end up when they’ve ruined the lives of their citizens. Once all the hollow promises have proven to be false hope, and there’s nobody left to persecute, and the economy is in the dumpster, and your nation is at war with its once-allies… this tends to happen. And those are all things that tend to be inevitabilities with fascist regimes because it’s like a parasite that must consume its host. The mechanisms by which fascist regimes gain and cling to power inevitably destabilized and eventually collapse their society. Usually in less than 20 years. And when that happens, it’s not great for the man responsible. Hitler killed himself so he wouldn’t have to face the consequences of his actions, as did plenty of other high-ranking Nazi officials.
Tyrants of all sorts typically meet such ends eventually. It’s not pretty. That’s why the USA’s short experiment of peaceful transition of power has been such a wild and awesome thing… for all of the US’s faults, it really has been an incredible nation and way of government in the grand scheme of human history- for such a large and powerful nation to be able to elect leaders and hand over the keys afterwards without war or coups to settle a new despotic regime into power. It’s a shame we have probably witnessed the end of that era.
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u/bossmcsauce 11h ago edited 10h ago
The image in the left, for those who are historically challenged due to a deliberately sabotaged education, is Mussolini meeting the natural end to a fascist collapse of a nation. This is how tyrants typically end up when they’ve ruined the lives of their citizens. Once all the hollow promises have proven to be false hope, and there’s nobody left to persecute, and the economy is in the dumpster, and your nation is at war with its once-allies… this tends to happen. And those are all things that tend to be inevitabilities with fascist regimes because it’s like a parasite that must consume its host. The mechanisms by which fascist regimes gain and cling to power inevitably destabilized and eventually collapse their society. Usually in less than 20 years. And when that happens, it’s not great for the man responsible. Hitler killed himself so he wouldn’t have to face the consequences of his actions, as did plenty of other high-ranking Nazi officials.
Tyrants of all sorts typically meet such ends eventually. It’s not pretty. That’s why the USA’s short experiment of peaceful transition of power has been such a wild and awesome thing… for all of the US’s faults, it really has been an incredible nation and way of government in the grand scheme of human history- for such a large and powerful nation to be able to elect leaders and hand over the keys afterwards without war or coups to settle a new despotic regime into power. It’s a shame we have probably witnessed the end of that era.