Check out this article in New Humanist.
It has the ring of truth to me.
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5311...led-truths
"My father had a point. Fascism is different from other political isms. If I tell you that someone is a socialist, or a libertarian, or a communist, you know roughly what principles would govern that person’s perfect society. If I tell you someone is a fascist, all you know is that the person has put their faith in a leader. You don’t argue with the leader, any more than you argue with the Pope. Fascism is as near as you get in politics to the idea of revealed truth.
I am not arguing Catholics are fascists, or religious folk are fascists. But the good fascist, like the good Catholic, must contract out their thinking. “I am done with those who think,” said Mosley on the day that he abandoned democratic politics for fascism. “Henceforth I shall go with those who feel.” Those who feel but do not think require someone to do their thinking for them, and that, in Mosley’s view, was what the Leader (it always has an upper-case L in fascist circles) was for. "
It has the ring of truth to me.
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5311...led-truths
"My father had a point. Fascism is different from other political isms. If I tell you that someone is a socialist, or a libertarian, or a communist, you know roughly what principles would govern that person’s perfect society. If I tell you someone is a fascist, all you know is that the person has put their faith in a leader. You don’t argue with the leader, any more than you argue with the Pope. Fascism is as near as you get in politics to the idea of revealed truth.
I am not arguing Catholics are fascists, or religious folk are fascists. But the good fascist, like the good Catholic, must contract out their thinking. “I am done with those who think,” said Mosley on the day that he abandoned democratic politics for fascism. “Henceforth I shall go with those who feel.” Those who feel but do not think require someone to do their thinking for them, and that, in Mosley’s view, was what the Leader (it always has an upper-case L in fascist circles) was for. "
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Edward Gibbon
