‘I am certainly not a Fascist. I looked that up in the thesaurus on this computer in order to clarify its definition and it told me I could replace this with concepts such as authoritarian, racist, extreme right, nationalist, Aryan or Nazi. That all seems to be the exact opposite of everything I believe in. Who gives a fuck if the trains run on time if they are loaded up with a human cargo consisting of everyone who thinks differently to a fascist? A modern day fascist would be loading up the refugees, environmentalists, protestors, trade unionists, teachers, writers, all the old favourites, and me. It must end up pretty boring in a fascist world when all you’ve got left is one race, one nationality, one view, one attitude, one religion, not too many people, no prisons, mental homes or disabled, an intelligent conformist population with no protestors and plenty of huge graveyards. Pretty orderly I suppose and extremely efficient but bland, unadventurous and sterile. Sounds like my idea of hell. Nope. Give me chaos, variety, loud abuse, argument, adventure, tolerance, scruffiness, freedom and lots of loud protest and individuality.
If you could get in the head of a fascist I guess you’d find a great love of order, a need for security, a feeling of certain superiority, a desire to order others about or be ordered about, a disgust for everyone who isn’t part of the same group and an inability to show the slightest bit of humanity and compassion. I have a tendency to stereotype fascists as being stupid. I know they are not. Some are and some are not. There are some extremely bright fascists. I imagine they like the power of manipulating others and exerting their own superiority. They are ruthless schemers and self-promoters.’
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