Comments by "No One" (@joermundgand) on "CNN Senior Producer Admits “Russia Story Mostly Bullsh*t"" video.
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Andreas Papadakis. In answer to your open challenge, Mussolini took power in a coup, he wasn't elected.
At that time in way way back people had a terrifying choice, support the at the time yet untried idea of Fascism or choose Communism which at the time seemed to be benign, off course there were at the time allready horror stories coming out of the Soviet Union, so in hindsight I can't blame them for trying a third option. Liberal democracy in Italy had been unable to cope with the fallout from Italy's involvement in the WW1 and to properly unify Italy before and after WW1. Italy at that time had not been properly welded into a nation state, most people at the time considered themselves citizens of Italy, they did not however all consider themselves to be Italians, They considered themselves to be Lombardians, Venetians, Savoyards, Ligurians, Tuscans, Umbrians, Neapolitans, Calabresians, Sardians, Sicilians, Apulians and so on, the Fascists was offering to weld the nation into a cohesive whole, to end the mafia and its corrupting influence on public life and offered universal healthcare, public free education and a giant jobs program.
After they actually did improve the lives of the majority of citizens they got more popular support.
That explains the why, in hindsight everybody gets to be genius, the situation today is not comparable with Benito and friends, the right is not advocating publicly to abolish democracy, Mussolini did advocate for the abolishment of democracy.
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