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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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I think you misunderstand the origins and meaning of the saying. The saying itself is based on historical context, where liberals in places like Italy and Germany chose to support growing fascist movements in the name of maintaining some sort of stability and perceived normalcy, instead of combatting those movements alongside communists and socialists. As an example, in my opinion we are seeing the same history play out again in the modern United States as various corporations, universities, and state governments, etc are following along with certain policies of the Trump administration in order to maintain normalcy instead of choosing to resist those policies and cause an upset. The saying "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds" is based on the historical kowtowing of moderates and liberals to fascist movements instead of choosing to resist.
I'm not misunderstanding. The meaning is explicitly laid out in the phrase itself. Its a memetic phrase and repeated as a point of propaganda, as your previous post alludes to. People who spot memes in the wild are going to interpret them at face value and the person posting the meme knows this. Neither party is going going to reflect on its historical meaning, they'll just think "oh libs are fash".
I also don't think refusing to resist makes someone equivalent to fascist if they did everything they could to prevent a fascist take over already. If you think the blame lies at least partially on people refusing to vote or you think they are people purposefully hoping to drag you into violent conflict when this was all avoidable you don't owe those people shit.
In fact, it just means you are surrounded by pieces of shit. Bad people OK with throwing countless others under the bus for a chance for their own well being or gain. Am I wrong?
There are very few US citizens who made it out morally clean from the 2024 US election. Efforts to help them means helping bad people get what they wanted. Its rewarding them for making everything worse through their horrifically selfish gambit.
Make no mistake, I do not like liberals or their worship of private property. Liberals vary from awful people to at best morally flawed people. However, I think if they voted against Trump or canvassed for Harris, etc they're better people than protesting vote-abstaining lefties.