Abso-fucking-lutely not. Fascists would NEVER be able to gain power in a truly democratic society. No ifs, ands or butts.
Fascists are funded into power (and into existence) by CAPITALISTS - adherents to an ideology that is violently incompatible with anything that can be called democratic with a straight face.
Brazil is not a democratic society. It is a (so-called) "liberal democracy" - something that can be more accurately described as 95% capitalism with some fake democracy substitute thrown in as a legitimising measure.
We have literally just witnessed the decades old Zionist propaganda project (one of the holiest of liberalism's holy cows) come crashing down because, for the first time since 1948, the vast majority of people on the planet had access to information about it that wasn't curated for them by the designers and sponsors of said propaganda project.
So no... the attempts to distort and manipulate information does NOT invalidate the value of the truth being out there.
Apparently, the left is only willing to set fire to themselves for "protest," while it's the right-wingers that are actually willing to off capitalist parasites.
The old anarchists must be turning in their graves.
It's a fable and an utterly silly one. If you think this is a "great story" on leadership you're an idiot.
Sun Tzu himself said (and I'm paraphrasing here, because the best parts of his writing is the least quoted ones) "Treat your troops as your own beloved sons, and they shall follow you without hesitation."
That's what he had to say about leadership. Nothing about murdering concubines because of their inexperience at soldiering.
You're arguing that a veneer of false democracy that exists purely to camouflage the exact same authoritarianism actually qualifies as democracy.
It doesn't.
as it’s not guaranteed you’ll stay in the office after everything’s over.
Joe Biden leaving the White House doesn't threaten the status quo in the US. You are confusing propaganda with the actual politics said propaganda is designed to obscure.
All I argue is that “artificial democracies” are far worse.
95% capitalism with 5% fake artificial democracy substitute (ie, so-called "liberal democracy) is about as artificial as "artificial democracy" gets.
This is what you don't seem to understand. The so-called "democracy" that exists in the so-called "west" is stable because their electoral politics do not threaten the interests of the class of (thoroughly unelected) billionaire parasites who runs these societies. Regimes like Russia hasn't attained this kind of stability yet - that is why the billionaire parasites that benefit from these regimes needs overt authoritarianism to protect their interests.
If the interests of this (again, thoroughly unelected) billionaire class is truly threatened in so-called "liberal democratic" states you will see them resort to the exact same type of authoritarianism. This is why ALL "liberal democracies" comes with built-in fascist institutions (such as the police and other paramilitary organisations) that can enable such authoritarian violence in the blink of an eye if necessary.
(Please don't tell me you're naive enough to believe that the police exists to protect YOU.)
In a truly democratic society, fascism couldn't exist. Capitalism couldn't exist.
The fact that they do should tell you something.
“I don’t like it, so it’s fascist”
I hate to be the one to break it to you... but Mussolini did not invent fascism. He merely gave it a name.
Does it now? Germany, the UK, the US and France are all pushing through legislation that will enable less and less restrictions on the violence their kapos mete out to the non-collaborationist parts of the population... underneath all the liberal pretensions, the genocidal white supremacist fascism is shining through because it's always been there.
are incomparably more lenient
You mean their repression is less overt because their respective status quos is, for now, more stable than Russia's or Kazakhstan and not so easily threatened from below.
Because even Israel, strictly speaking, isn’t classified as democracy.
The countries that have been arming, funding and supporting Israel since 1948 (who also, purely coincidentally, all have deep histories of white supremacist and antisemitic represssion, exploitation and genocide) disagrees with you. After all, if you can call the mixture of 95% capitalism and 5% artificial democracy substitute that gets classified as "democracy" by the (so-called) west "democratic" it's not a far stretch to extend that classification to any nation that acts "white" enough - you know, like Israel and Apartheid-South Africa.
Since this word often gets thrown around with no real meaning behind it.
And it also gets thrown around with a lot of meaning behind it - and I'm always curious about people who seem to grow insecure about it when I do.
thus compared to the USA, when it is far worse in reality.
This is that power working as intended. What did you think the 2nd amendment was really all about? You can't have white supremacist and well-armed militias ready to repress the population if you don't arm them in the first place.
This is just business as usual, and these piggies will get off with barely a slap on the wrist because they were performing their function as intended.
If Brazil had learned from it's mistake it WOULDN'T HAVE ALLOWED A FASCIST INTO POWER, genius.