For people with money to spare maybe, but being apolitical is the default state of working class people (aka the majority of voters). You don’t have time to get involved in activism when it’s taking all you can do to just put food on the table.
Fascism is just authoritarian capitalism, and then as now its main base of support is the middle class, meaning people with something to lose. Like, the main electoral constituency of Donald Trump is not disgruntled rust belt workers but small business owners- car dealerships, construction companies, realtors. Just like in Germany back in the day.
For people with money to spare maybe, but being apolitical is the default state of working class people (aka the majority of voters). You don’t have time to get involved in activism when it’s taking all you can do to just put food on the table.
Fascism is just authoritarian capitalism, and then as now its main base of support is the middle class, meaning people with something to lose. Like, the main electoral constituency of Donald Trump is not disgruntled rust belt workers but small business owners- car dealerships, construction companies, realtors. Just like in Germany back in the day.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/family-capitalism-and-the-small-business-insurrection/