The challenges to democracy [letter] | Letters To The Editor … – LNP | LancasterOnline

Democracys main agenda is to outlive fascism, autocracy and nihilism by whatever means necessary.

When fascism was originally outlined, its objective was to become a bulwark against Marxism; it did not foresee a conflict with democracies in America and Europe. As it developed in different parties, the contradictions became obvious in Germany in the 1930s.

America faces another version of fascism, which has been simmering for a long time in the GOP. And again, as could be expected, it is in conflict with the goals of democracy.

But are we sure what the goals of a democratic society are? America is proudly pluralistic, but life today is experienced collectively by the new agendas that concern the planet we live on, what we read and who we love; these are big questions.

Included also are the struggles to defeat racism, sexism and the linchpin of American-style fascism theocracy.

America is colorful, queer and, in its diversity, intersectional, which means one can be religious and gay; Black or Latino and impoverished; or a woman with a disability. These are boundary-crossing experiences that multiply empathy.

The Republican Party is afraid of these positive ways of thinking about mutual responsibility and would bring the country to a level of cruelty unforgivable in a democratic society. Confronting fascism on the battlefield has already been done and we won; now the struggle is at home, and we do not need guns and bombs to defeat fascists. We need to vote them out.

Egon de Uriarte

Lancaster

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