His failure is why we know it can't work

reading what GLR said about how the Founding Fathers were actually Fascists makes me cringe

GLR speaks in simple terms, which makes him a good orator, but also means that a lot gets lost in translation

Yea, it is cringe. I know people who unironically think that

How you can believe that is beyond me

If a man as great as GLR couldn't make it work, then none of us will be able to

@BasedWhiteGoy to counter what you say about Heidegger, there exists the "hive mind analysis" phenomenon, where groups of people making predictions about something are usually better than an individual

Though I do think that if he hadn't been murdered, there's a good chance he would have become Governor

Fascism, intellectually, sprung from a rejection of modernity and the enlightenment. Almost every major fascist philosopher was very explicit about that

He was murdered by the fucking feds because he made so much sense

GLR failed because he was fucking assassinated.

The founders created a nation steeped in modernity

for example, it's been shown that when a bunch of people play a "guess the weight game", their answers, while varying wildly, will always average out very close to the true value

(((They))) knew GLR was redpilling too many too fast.

the same is true of other things

the problem is

of course

the mob

the effect is ruined when someone's decision making is influenced by everyone else's

which is why democracy often doesn't experience that effect

The hivemind is consistent with fascism. No one said that people wouldn't pool their collective intellect and efforts to advance the nation, in fact that is what fascism is all about

But the leader that the people elevate and will in to power gets the final say

Fascism is a sort of third way between democracy and total dictatorship. Usually a fascist dictator ought to be and is a charismatic, strong person that is beloved by the people

I can't wait for the day when I can catch a flight out of George Lincoln Rockwell Airport

There's that quote from Huey Long about how a perfect democracy almost looks like a dictatorship, where the people are so satisfied they have no complaint

Mussolini is a great example of this. Mussolini drew from Julius Caesar and italy's rich roman history to invigorate the national spirit of the italian people

Some day 😢

Caesar was, in a sense, the first example of what a fascist leader would look like

@Hadrian what annoys me about that little easter egg is that it makes zero sense in the world of High Castle

A charismatic, popular, beloved man who the people entrusted with total power

@The Inquisitor [☧] Shhhhh let us dream

The show takes place BEFORE GLR was assassinated in our timeline

and it's unlikely he would have been assassinated sooner in High Castle

Its a easter egg, that's fine. Few normies would know who GLR is

Yes and he probably would have never came to the realization Hitler was right if he still had to fight against them

There are any number of reasons he might have died in that universe

And GLR was an honorable and noble man, but I do disagree with his strategy to redpill people

He probably would have died a navy piolet

pilot

Maybe in this universe he actually did become Governor