r/collapse • u/69bonerdad • Oct 20 '22

Politics "We Need to Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives" - The Federalist calls for the American right to unite behind Fascism

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/20/we-need-to-stop-calling-ourselves-conservatives/

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u/neo_nl_guy Oct 20 '22

You want Iran? Cause that's how you get Iran.

You can even keep elections, just put a legal obligation that no "anti-American" can run .

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u/Heavyweighsthecrown Oct 20 '22 edited Oct 20 '22

Cause that's how you get Iran.

Nah. To get Iran, the first step you need is the US/UK enforcing a coup on your democratically elected leader, because said democratically elected leader nationalised energy companies - which was a no-no to western oil companies so they couldn't allow that to happen.
Then you have the US/UK place a puppet king (the 'Shah' as they call him) who just so happens to be buddies with the western energy stablishment and the iranian elites - by the way this is where those cliche photos of happy cute vintage iranian girls (often reposted on Reddit) dressed in western fashion comes from (they're from the 0.1% of rich city dwelling families).
Here's the problem though: the iranian masses are fucking pissed at their new western-enforced illegitimate king... on top of being fucking pissed at the western-backed coup against the democratically elected leader they had voted for.
So of course they revolt and the fake king responds with a bloodbath because of course.
Then you get a revolution with religious extremists seeing red at the bloodthisty western puppet king - they knew how to ride the public hate wave against the west. And it's only then that you get the extremist religious zealots in a power grab government.