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Fasicism always fails. May take awhile. But if does. Takes people with courage. Most generations dont have enough on their own. Each one has less people willing to endure hardships for greatness and freedom and, they become more more in pablum, and state backed entertainment
Fascism in Portugal lasted from 1933 to 1974.
In Spain it lasted from 1936 to 1975.
Fascism did fail (specifically, in Portugal there was a Revolution and in Spain the Fascists just gave power away whilst keeping their loot) but it took about 50 years in both cases.
Had Hitler and Mussolini not gone to war with basically most of the World, I wouldn't be at all surprised if their regimes hadn't lasted until well after both died (which was what happened in both Portugal and Spain - those regimes only fell a while after after Salazar and Franco were dead).
Meanwhile just to give you an idea of how bad things can be under Fascism without people rebelling, Portugal during the Fascist days was a dirt poor country with mainly subsistence agriculture which even received Food Aid from the rest of Europe and this without even having gone through a war. Just a reminder that during the Age of the Discoveries, both Portugal and Spain were for a while (about a century) the pinnacle powers in the World to the point that they divided it in half between themselves (which is why in South America Brasil speaks Portuguese and the rest speak Spanish and why most Portuguese "colonies" were in Africa whilst Spain was mostly present in South America), so it's not as if those weren't rich countries at some point.
So, yeah, you're right that Fascism always falls (then again, so does everything else), but it can take a while to get there and entire generations can suffer horribly before things change.
This is all what if stuff, but it's worth noting that Hitler basically financed Germany's reconstruction (and more importantly Germany's rearmament) by borrowing heavily, notably from Jewish financiers and from the Soviet Union (a nearly unknown aspect of the non-aggression treaties between Germany and the USSR was an enormous loan). Had Hitler not opted for war and genocide like he did, he would have faced other major problems such as the collapse of his entire economy (The Wages of Destruction is an excellent read on this subject).
Another fun fact about the non-aggression treaties was that ironically enough they included military technology transfers from Germany to the Soviets. For the most part, none of the stuff Germany handed over to Russia resulted in anything significant - with a noteworthy exception being some advanced 37mm antiaircraft turrets that had been earmarked for installation on the Bismarck, the battleship that was rather famously crippled by fucking biplanes.
Yeah it's kinda a subset i of the old "how could the Germans win WW2? By not being Nazis." joke. The German economy was already starting to struggle as early as the annexation of Austria and may have very well collapsed if they had been denied Czechoslovakia, there's a reason they were basically looting everywhere they invaded rather than just taking over the factories.
Also in the defense of the Bismark having more AA wouldn't have helped, the reason they didn't do well against the swordfish naval biplanes is because they didn't have the right ammo and their guns weren't calibrated for planes that slow they were calibrated for planes like the spitfires naval sub model. It'd be like some dude in a with a ballistic plate getting shit canned by a blunderbuss, under no circumstances did the engineers consider that a viable risk.
Because there are two few people who have the courage.
It's not about numbers or weapons. It's about fear. Being afraid is normal
Question is, how does one want to be remembered and deal with it?
I'm in my 40's. I'm not changing jack shit, and these thugs aren't going anywhere in the next two decades.
This battle is well and truly lost. I know "hope" is important but take a fucking look out of the window. Evil prevails, everywhere in the world simultaneously. "Good" people are at an automatic disadvantage by virtue of giving a shit about anything other than themselves. The game is rigged and has been for a long time. They've just stopped caring about the veneer that was on top of the ugly truth.
Sociopathy is the name of the game, and you can only beat them by playing by their rules.
Like I said, youngster.