Hot take redux: “The Union” during the US Civil War were actually fascists.

@alex that is a very hot take

@valleyforge

✅ exalts nation above the individual
✅ stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader
✅ forcible suppression of opposition

@alex @valleyforge This might not be specifically fascistic, but the Union also created a large army by means of enslavement. Commonly known as conscription.

@jeremy @alex I don't know how you can have a problem with conscription if you don't have a problem with taxation. They're basically the same thing