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This meit be a bit confusing, because it was late at neit, but it is something that pops up constantly with supporters of Liberals (not just the politicians themselves): the Rule Of Law.

All the time, I see that Rule Of Law is cast as something that is the best thing ever, as if Fascism is a criminal phenomenon.

I originally thoht this was Liberals trying to get courts to fight Fascism due to fears about having Fascists being in kahoots with the legal system, but lately it seems that this "rule of law" idea is pushed as a sort of anti-Fascist panacea. It is really ahistorical, considering how the law and police force are not simply there, but evolve and expand as Capitalism does: instead of simply catching criminals, there is an entire network of copaganda to convince people that they need the police due to fear of crime, then there are private prisons which inherently need more prisoners due to the logic of the market, then there are the politicians who do nothing as police get more and more funding, then there is the mistreatment of criminals which seeps into the mistreatment of prisoners, then mistreatment of people near cops, then mistreatment of people that the cops dislike. All because there the needs of the Law were put above the needs of the human being.

I need to really research this, and find out why this line is being pushed, in detail.

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[-] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 days ago

The Rule of Law is a core pillar of liberal ideology and the most important method of legitimizing the fascist state when it comes into being.

If the law is unquestionable, and the law is fascist, then fascism is unquestionable and dissent is treason.

This is one of the many contradictions of a liberal system.

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