At least I registered the irony of your
"leads to fasc..." comment, though quite often your irony sails straight over my head, I'm afraid.
Yes, all that stuff about "What will the first lady wear?" is pretty silly of course but sometimes it provides a bit of light relief, or a heartwarming story to sweeten the pill that the end of civilization is nigh.
An ironical observation about the beginnings of fascism:-
Surely the first tell-tale sign is when a political party design a mock-military uniform for themselves - the Brownshirts, the Blackshirts, etc. We'll know that fascism has infiltrated MB when the mods all post avatars of themselves as Blueshirts.