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Fisher: Across the world, there's a constituency for fascism. Raccoon: Maybe people simply realize Western Civilization took a wrong turn. Fisher: Some percentage of people will happily support and even vote for a dictator because they think that will solve all their problems. Raccoon: Who are you to say they're wrong? What if the problem is race-mixing, open homosexuality, and women in the workforce? Fisher: The real problem of our time is how we all move forward from here. Raccoon: The real problem is how we bypass elites like you who think they know everything.

NEW COMIC TWO OR THREE TIMES A WEEK, OR WHEN THE MOOD STRIKES

I was just musing on this Bluesky post by Nicholas Grossman. He doesn't really go into this but my feeling is that this relates to my hypothesis, which is that the electorate can be led, but the left (especially in the United States and the U.K.) has been doing a monumentally lousy job of leading, while the fascist right has understood the assignment, especially in the age of social media, and has therefore led the electorate into fascism. Think of all the culture war bullshit drummed up by the right: Trans athletes! Litterboxes in classrooms! Immigrants! These bogeymen are basically created out of whole cloth as needed. Meanwhile the left in the U.S. can't even seem to get ahead of the "maybe not everyone should have military-grade firearms" while schoolchildren are being murdered.

Is it possible there's something beneath the level at which voters are being led, something deeper, which makes it easier to lead them one way than another? If you mean racism, then yes. I don't know if there needs to be more to it. But even given the racism of the U.S. I think solid leadership would make some headway. It did before. It can again.

I'm probably mildly incoherent here but I need to get a comic out today.

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