Welcome with the commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow.

Over the past few months, I've been getting a deluge of questions from listeners and other folks that follow me on these social media.

And these questions range from the sociopolitical to the nature of my feelings about public health policy, to intermittent fasting protocols, to what I put in my coffee and how those all intersect, if they do.

And I often try to answer these questions

in concise videos that don't offend the algorithm on Instagram and TikTok. So I have assembled a

variety of questions and answers here in today's episode and an Ask Me Anything compilation.

If you have a question that you would like me to address, shoot me an email at jeff k

at one commune.com.

And you can also find my writing over on substack at jeffcrasno.substack.com and be sure to follow me

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Okay, without further delay, let's dive into some of today's questions.

So the first one throws me right on top of the political third rail.

Jeff, do you think we're headed towards fascism, or am I just watching too much liberal news media?

Well, the answer could be yes to both. Unfortunately, the word fascism has

gotten thrown around a lot by both sides of the political aisle. And when you overuse a word,

it becomes less potent. So I might make the same argument for the word racist. There was a time

when the worst thing you could ever call someone was a racist. So the word was

used relatively sparingly, at least in relation to today, open up your TikTok app. Every other

post has an accusation of someone or something being racist. But fascism actually has a definition.

So here I try to analyze where we are through the lens of that definition.

Let's perform a dispassionate analysis of it.

So fascism is a political ideology and system of governance marked by some core components.

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