Fascism doesn’t need a traditional fascist aesthetic to look and sound like fascism. Populism as dictated by an illiberal regime can easily turn to fascism, because a dictatorship built on the interests of the ruling-class with a populist economy is a fascist system.
Populist ideology has now been normalised by the Labour Party and this development in the political discourse validates and strengthens Labour’s narrative for a subsidies-based economic system. In fact, the Labour Party has run a very strong propaganda campaign attacking anyone of having doubts about an economy based on subsidies.
“The masses are always correct” says Vince Marmara – justifying Labour’s consecutive electoral wins as destiny made right by the people – the inevitable and logical conclusion. The collective intelligence of the Maltese can never be wrong and Labour’s right to govern is historically-given: the God-given right-to-rule is a choice now bestowed to the people and its legitimacy is equally divine.
Even the Labour Party’s intellectuals sound like primitive barbarians and that’s because the Labour Party has waged a war against the free press, the intellectuals and the independent publishers throughout all public institutions, including the University of Malta, where it has removed and suppressed critical voices and deep research that provides more objective and critical discourses about what is going in Malta today.
In simpler words, the Labour Party has suppressed intellectual development in Malta and has occupied the information space with its own influence and propaganda. The result is that we have a drastic dumbing down of intellectual discourse that is capable of justifying fascist rhetoric.
Everyone nods and applauds to Vince Marara’s words with no pushback. It’s becoming so banal and pathetic.
“The masses are always correct”.
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