politics, deradicalization, fascist ideology
Something I wish more people - especially leftists - would realize, is that fascist beliefs may be *practically* rooted in hierarchy, but *ideologically* they're not; ideologically, people's beliefs hinge on a misguided understanding of 'human nature'.
You need to talk about someone's beliefs regarding 'human nature', if you want to have any hope of changing their mind - because "we can do without hierarchy" sounds completely absurd if your core belief is that most humans are fundamentally malicious and rotten.
politics, deradicalization, fascist ideology
(The scarequotes around 'human nature' are because part of the problem is that people have this really expansive view of 'human nature' where they assume that a lot of cultural conventions are actually innate and immutable, and so deconstructing that idea that "human nature rules everything around me, nothing you can do about it" is part of the work you need to do in deradicalization)
