America is a Fascist nation. The Republican & Democratic Parties are aware of this fact, are complicit, i.e.: in gouging of Americans by Amazon & Walmart, and innocents killed in Wars of aggression.
Fascism
American-Style: Corporationalism's,
The Right Of
Might
& The
American War Machine:
Part One: Our American Reality As A Fascist
Nation 101
“Americans
have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the
number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other
countries, since 1947 is more than 250.”
“There
is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it
has two right wings: Republican
and Democrat.”
Respectfully
dedicated to the memory
of
that courageous Novelist, Essayist,
and
Defender of the American Republic:
Gore
Vidal
Within the following
in-depth research article, as the true facts of our American Reality
unfold, I shall attempt to enlighten and encourage Average Jane-N-Joe
citizens to willingly become fully aware of the truthful sordid state
of affairs of our nation a sordid state of affairs which is not the
pure bullshit of any President's State of the Union speech.
Now. If it should be
that you prefer tasty Lie-Pies that will tickle your ears' innards,
please do exit this page, because, clearly you are not a member of
those true American citizens with whom I do, vehemently and
adamantly, seek to share the cold, hard, brutally-frank and ugly,
s****y and most unpleasant, truth with. No hard feelings, just,
simply “bugger off!”
Below, I shall present
the following introductory piece to my valued readers as an article
of speculative conjecture which is also supported by in-depth
researched evidential footnote proofs, which I have provided for the
study, scrutiny, and contemplation of my readers in reaching their
own, personal and individual, conclusions as to the theoretically
possible veracity of all that I shall share below. We shall discuss
a number of interrelated topics of serious interest to all Americans
-- including article's evidenced examples which I shall provide as
excerpts in which the font colors have been altered and rendered, by
myself, and set before my readers eyes as Purple,
Red, and
Black
Tahoma Font (occasionally
rendered initalics
or as Bold)
for easier Identifiability
as, indeed, being reliable evidential-facts proofs
excerpts and not, simply, my own thoughts set to page (note: This
article is currently not viewable with the aforementioned colored
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Fascism and the
identifiable characteristics exhibited as Fascism during the World
War II era.
An explanation, as
clarification, of my self-coined terminology, The Right of Might.
The American War
Machine which President Dwight D. Eisenhower identified explicitly
and emphatically -- in his 1961 farewell speech's warning of
admonition to the American People -- as “The Military Industrial
Complex.”
“...
During his Farewell Address in January 1961, President Eisenhower
warned Americans of the dangers of the military-industrial complex.
The military-industrial complex is the close relationship between the
U.S. Military and the giant corporations that built its weapons. He
viewed it as a threat to liberty and to democracy...”
President,
John F. Kennedy, also, warned the American People, as did his
brother, Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The warnings of two Presidents
and a respected U.S. Senator were totally ignored and went unheeded.
As a result, after the tragically needless slaughter -- innocent
North Vietnamese civilians and Viet Cong Troops, South Vietnamese
civilians and soldiers, coupled with a loss of American lives to
rival that of America's Civil War, which ultimately resulted in the
shameful fiasco of the Vietnam War
-- a Think Tank (duh?)
was put together to devise the best means and strategy of Rebuilding
America's Defenses for the future -- a fact which makes clear
American Leadership has learned nothing, to date, in hindsight's
total lack of perceptive presence of a true peace seeking mind's
foresight: The Project For A New American Century (i.e.: The
American War Machine). Best summed up with a one liner that makes
for a great book title? Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace: How We
Got To Be So Hated, by Gore Vidal.
Tragically,
the above shared information serves as a statement of ominous
reality, a statement which clearly indicates that there
are issues which are direly foreboding and increasingly wrong in
America today. As Americans, we can
all see that something
is wrong. However, the flak and smoke of, both,
the Republican and Democratic Parties seek to blind us to the
pertinent (facts revealing) details of exactly that which is
wrong as they (again, BOTH
Parties) attempt to steer us away from the real issues by waging a
game of finger's pointing one towards the others, when in fact both
Parties are willing conspirators --
complicit and guilty. Best summed up by the late, Gore Vidal?
“There
is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it
has two right wings: Republican
and Democrat.” Gore
Vidal
If
Gore Vidal was correct, andI
do, adamantly, believe that he was,
then, “that one party in the United States: The Property Party,”
a party consisting of cooperative elements of both
Republicans and Democrats
are more than complicit and are, in all reality, fully in collusion,
in various aspects, concerning the intentional obfuscation of the
real
issues facing,
shaping, and determining the current and ongoing direction and future
of our
nation
-- issues which I believe boils down to a very sad state of affairs
for
all Americans.
Why so? Because of this most pertinent fact of reality as per that
great classic Science Fiction novelist, Robert Anson Heinlein:
“A
generation which ignores history has no past-and no future.”
Why
is the past so important? Simply this: Americans were led to
believe that we fought World War II in order to save the world from
the “evils”
of “Fascism.” However, have we ever considered this pertinent
question: Do we, as Average Jane-N-Joe Americans, really know and
understand, exactly, what Fascism truly represents, and
is, in regards to this controversial
ideology's recognizably demonstrable characteristics and attributes?
After
all, most of us older folks have heard Sheb Wooley's oldies song, The
Purple People Eater, but have any of us ever seen a purple people
person, much less seen a purple people eater? Surely we would
recognize a purple person, if ever we met or saw one, but, more to
the point, would we recognize a purple people eater if we saw one, or
actually met one face to face, beyond the context of the lyrics of
The Purple People Eater song?
Hence,
would we recognize Fascism as, indeed being, Fascism, even if it bit
us on our proverbial noses? Without knowing the characteristics and
attributes of Fascism, how can (or could) we possibly recognize its
alleged, ideological -- “evils?”
Thus,
it is, expressly, for the above stated reasons -- Without knowing
the characteristics and attributes of Fascism, how can (or could) we
possibly recognize its, alleged, ideological -- “evils?” --
that this article is dedicated to my readers as a genuinely sincere
attempt to awaken Average Jane-N-Joe American citizens (folks just
like you and I), and hope to cause them to become responsibly aware
of the easily identifiable attributes and characteristics of Fascism
exhibited daily -- here, in our America, and as such, right
before our very pointy noses' and undiscerning eyes.
Albeit,
(as stated within my Author's Preliminary Note) we, simply, cannot
see the Fascism's-Forest
for all the many beefy-leafy Fascism-Trees, hence unrecognized, as
the very true threat which they do represent. It
is most direly imperative to the future of our nation -- to
the future of all Americans as Average Jane-N-Joe folks --
that we, each come to know, grasp, and comprehend the facts regarding
the existence of Fascism as the driving-force ideology that has
become America as our nation. Why so? Because, ignorance
is not -- never was, never shall be -- bliss!
In
olden days it was said that soldiers received and obeyed orders based
solely upon information provided to them on a need to know basis, and
in many cases there existed sensitive information which they simply
did not need to know, nor be accessibly privy to. As such remains
true unto this very day within the U.S. Armed Forces, as well as
those of nations all around the world.
But
you and I, as Average Jane-N-Joe Americans, are not soldiers, are not
subject to the regulations, orders, and restrictions of military
service. We, both you and I, are American Citizens of these United
States of America. We are, “We the People!” Our American
Government -- along with its
facts-obfuscating (News & Social) Media-Henchmen-Collaborators
-- owes to us, one and all, an explanation of the truth as to
why, “We the People,' have been kept in “the dark” as to
the factual truth of the ongoing transformation of America into a
Fascist nation that is much
more than just similar to those very nations we fought so vigilantly
against during World War II. Nothing could have been further from
the real-deal's truth of America's (ulterior?) motivations for
entering World War II.
Imagine
a metaphorical analogy, whereby the true reason's events of World War
II as a gangland style war between Organized-Crime Cartels, and the
war was waged over which Cartel is determined enough and powerful
enough to win out as “king of the mountain,” and crowned as
“top-dog” of all Cartels, and you may just begin to grasp
the reality-picture of all that has, indeed, transpired since the end
of, and as a result of World War II. And as such, right beneath our
Media blinded eyes, and our overly trusting faith in a lying a*s
Government which no longer serves the best interest (any interests)
of, “We the People,” the American People. If you can envision
such a real to life scenario, then, you are beginning to catch on.
But,
let's not take my word for it, in my, now, openly stating that our
America is a “Fascist nation.”
Shall we examine some hard evidence regarding those Fascist nations
of World War II, their exhibited attributes and characteristics that
defined them as Fascist, and those striking similarities that are
undeniably discernible in scrutinizing our
America of today?
Fascism
Definition, Characteristics & Examples: “...Characteristics
of fascism included authoritarianism,
nationalism, totalitarianism, militarism, and corporatism.
All of these elements were designed to allow the fascist ideology to
maintain complete control over political institutions and society.
Fascist movements were highly critical of parliamentary democracy,
which was deemed by Hitler to undermine the “natural selection of
the ruling elites,” though both Hitler and Mussolini used the
electoral political system to gain power initially ...” Study.com.
How
about a more intricately detailed definition of that which is
verifiable as Fascism?
“...
As an economic system, fascism is
socialismwith
a capitalist veneer.
The word derives from fasces,
the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods
with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was
seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal
capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition,
and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism,
with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the
bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism and
racialism--“blood and soil”--for the internationalism of both
classical liberalism and Marxism …
…
Fascism embodied
corporatism, in which political representation was based on
trade and industry rather than on geography. In
this, fascism revealed its roots in syndicalism,
a form of socialism originating on the left. The government
cartelized firms of the same industry, with representatives of labor
and management serving on myriad local, regional, and national
boards--subject always to the final authority of the dictator’s
economic plan. Corporatism was intended to avert unsettling
divisions within the nation, such as lockouts and union strikes. The
price of such forced “harmony” was the loss of the ability to
bargain and move about freely.
To
maintain high employment and minimize popular discontent, fascist
governments also undertook massive public-works projects financed by
steep taxes, borrowing, and fiat money creation. While many of
these projects were domestic--roads, buildings, stadiums--the
largest project of all was militarism, with huge armies and arms
production.
The
fascist leaders’ antagonism to communismhas
been misinterpreted
as an affinity for capitalism.
In fact, fascists’ anticommunism was motivated by a belief that in
the collectivist milieu of early-twentieth-century Europe, communism
was its closest rival for people’s allegiance.
As with communism, under fascism, every citizen was regarded as an
employee and tenant of the totalitarian, party-dominated state.
Consequently, it was the state’s prerogative to use force, or the
threat of it, to suppress even peaceful opposition …” Written
by Sheldon Richman @ Econlib.com.
I
do believe that an astute summation of the above information will
yield more than several similarities of World War II style Fascism to
actual events taking place, right here, in our America of today.
Allow me to pinpoint and isolate a few conspicuous points from the
above article excerpt which I do deem as pertinent to our discussion:
“As
an economic system, fascism is
socialismwith
a capitalist veneer.”
Sheldon
Richman @ Econlib.com.
Shall
we examine the definition and meaning of the word, veneer?
“Veneer:
A thin layer of decorative wood or plastic use to cover a cheaper
material. Something that hides something unpleasant or unwanted.”Cambridge
Dictionary.org.
“Fascism
embodied corporatism,
in which political representation was based on trade and industry
rather than on geography.
Corporatism
was intended to avert unsettling divisions within the nation, such as
lockouts and union strikes.” Sheldon Richman
@ Econlib.com.
Shall
we now examine the definition and meaning of the word, Corporatism?
Corporatism:
“the
control of a country, society, or organization by large groups who
share the same interests. Corporatism was originally conceived of as
an alternative to both free market economies and socialism. The word
corporatism can be problematic since it may evoke the specter of
fascism and authoritarian rule. In some way we are returning to an
earlier phase of corporatism, one with less consumer choice.”
Cambridge Dictionary.com.
“To
maintain high employment and minimize popular discontent, fascist
governments also undertook … steep taxes, borrowing, and fiat
money creation.” Sheldon Richman
@
Econlib.com. .
And,
fiat money? What exactly is fiat money?
Fiat Money:
“Fiat
money is a
government-issued currency that is not backed by a commodity such as
gold.
Fiat money gives central banks greater control over the economy
because they can control how much money is printed. Most modern paper
currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, are fiat currencies.”
Investopedia.com
“While
many of these projects were domestic�"roads, buildings, stadiums --
the largest project of all was militarism, with huge armies and
arms production.” Sheldon
Richman @ Econlib.com. .
Perhaps,
the word militarism
is totally innocent in nature? Militarism:
“the
belief that it is necessary to have strong armed forced and that they
should be used in order to win political and economic advantages.”
Cambridge Dictionary.com.
Another
witnesses as testimony to the cold hard facts?
“The
fascists were not quite socialist enough to nationalize all industry;
instead, they adopted an economic model called “corporatism,” in
which the government was a primary stakeholder in large, somewhat
private corporations. The governments would regulate what was to be
made, how much to pay workers, and on what matters to conduct
research, but they left the question of means to the executives and
managers ...”
Is
The New Right Fascist? By ActonUniversity.org.
Thus,
we see that, every
major facet of Fascism, in Tahoma
Font above, is present and, undeniably, accounted for in our America,
today. How could I make such a bold and audacious statement, and how
could as such possibly be true? Because, America was already within
the grasp of early developmental stages of transformation into a
Fascist nation quite a number of years before
World War II erupted. How so, you say? The very elemental ingredient
that has set the stage for Fascism to develop and take control, as an
ideology within any nation -- an elemental ingredient that serves as
a catalyst propelling Free Enterprise's Capitalism headlong into an
incremental transformational process of eventuality's perversion that
renders emasculation's castration of the very testicles of Capitalism
that are none other than those gonads of Free Enterprise-- is that
of none other than the entity known as a Corporation, a an economic
life's blood tick with an insatiable appetite for profits which in
turn engorges said beast into insatiable rabbit-like breeding that
becomes, Corporatism and, finally, Corporationalsim.
An undeniable fact of reality:
America is a Fascist nation, awaiting that right moment's nudge to
come out of the proverbial closet. This next Presidential Election
may well prove to be the nudge which serves to bring the American
Fascism Monster our its hibernating, laying in wait, closet's Little
Shop of Horrors,” wherein the Great Economic Reset announced, in
Davos, Switzerland, by the world's richest and most powerful and
influential people comes to full fruition of resurrecting the
Lord-Serfdom Feudalism of the Dark Ages as a streamlined, modernized
and technology empowered, form Fascism, for Feudalism is Fascism,
which is, also, Corporationalism.
We have established and
witnessed powerful evidence that does substantiate my stated point
number one: Fascism and the identifiable characteristics exhibited
as Fascism during the World War II era. However, we have yet to
touch upon the tip of the proverbial iceberg as to the seething evils
of writhing corruption which I shall share with you all in detailing
my stated points, two and three, as this article is continued in
Parts Two and Three.
No? You find my words of
stated suggestion too much too believe? Well. Think on this, my
fellow Average Jane-N-Joe Americans, if Walmart and Amazon do not own
a very large chunk of your financial and economic a*s, as prime
examples of Fascism that is Corporationalism -- out of sheer
necessity's lack of options of anywhere else to purchase basic needs
with ever shrinking avenues of seeking elsewhere -- then, who does?
Think hard before you answer,
because, the truth is, our asses are owned and controlled by more
influences than we care to admit: Taxes to the IRS, Sales Tax, Life
Insurance, Car Insurance, Home Insurance, Property Taxes on Homes we
have bought and paid for, but will forfeit if we fail to pay our
taxes. The list of all the far too many Corporate Entities who are
daily milking and shearing us, fleecing us for all that we can
produce and ever hope to be worth is mind boggling, and seemingly
without end. My youngest son summed it all up years ago within the
title of a poem which he wrote, titled, The Corporate Slave Trade.
The above, my friends, is
our American Reality! We are nothing more than domesticated and
placated complacently docile Sheeple-People Cattle, one and all,
corralled and fenced in within the confines of our Government
controlled, United Nations owned, Society. Slavery for Human Beings
reduced to Cattle still rules in every land around this world, and
reigns supreme, here, in our America.
“We
are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that
has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their
corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.” Gore
Vidal.
1 Fascism and the identifiable characteristics exhibited as Fascism during the World War II era --
Fascism – Britannica Online Encyclopedia -- There is no universally accepted definition of fascism. Nevertheless, it is possible to identify a number of general characteristics that fascist movements between 1922 and 1945 tended to have in common.”
Common characteristics of fascist movements
Opposition to Marxism “... Fascists made no secret of their hatred of Marxists of all stripes, from totalitarian communists to democratic socialists ...”
Opposition to parliamentary democracy “...Fascist movements criticized parliamentary democracy for allowing the Marxist threat to exist in the first place. According to Hitler, democracy undermined the natural selection of ruling elites and was 'nothing other than the systematic cultivation of human failure.'...”
Opposition to political and cultural liberalism “... Although circumstances sometimes made accommodation to political liberalism necessary, fascists condemned this doctrine for placing the rights of the individual above the needs of the Volk, encouraging “divisiveness” (i.e., political pluralism), tolerating “decadent” values, and limiting the power of the state. Fascists accused liberal “fellow travelers” of wittingly or unwittingly abetting communism ...”
Totalitarian ambitions “ … Although Hitler had not revealed the full extent of his totalitarian aims before he came to power, as Führer (“Leader”) of the Third Reich, he attempted not only to control all political power but also to dominate many institutions and organizations that were previously independent of the state, such as courts, churches, universities, social clubs, veterans groups, sports associations, and youth groups. Even the German family came under assault, as members of the Hitler Youth were told that it was their patriotic duty to inform on anti-Nazi parents ...”
Conservative economic programs “... the economic programs of the great majority of fascist movements were extremely conservative, favouring the wealthy far more than the middle class and the working class ...”
Corporatism “... The fascist economic theory corporatism called for organizing each of the major sectors of industry, agriculture, the professions, and the arts into state- or management-controlled trade unions and employer associations, or “corporations,” each of which would negotiate labour contracts and working conditions and represent the general interests of their professions in a larger assembly of corporations, or “corporatist parliament.” Corporatist institutions would replace all independent organizations of workers and employers, and the corporatist parliament would replace, or at least exist alongside, traditional representative and legislative bodies. In theory, the corporatist model represented a “third way” between capitalism and communism, allowing for the harmonious cooperation of workers and employers for the good of the nation as a whole. In practice, fascist corporatism was used to destroy labour movements and suppress political dissent ...”
Alleged equality of social status “... In the political discourse of the fascist right, economic problems related to large disparities of wealth between rich and poor were treated as problems of social status and class prejudice. Rather than attacking upper-class wealth, fascists attacked upper-class snobbism. Rather than narrowing class differences, they taught that these differences were subjective and unimportant. National “socialism” was said to occur when a Hitler Youth from a rich family and a Hitler Youth from a poor family became comrades; no wealth had to be shared. This conception of socialism was in part an outgrowth of the Nazis’ attempt to transfer military values to civilian life: In war it did not matter if the soldier next to you came from a poor or a wealthy background as long as he fought loyally for the combat unit ...”
Imperialism “... Many fascist movements had imperialistic aims. Hitler hoped that his Drang nach Osten (“drive toward the east”), by conquering eastern Europe and Russia, would not only prove the racial superiority of Aryans over Slavs but also provide enough plunder and Lebensraum (“living space”) to overcome continuing economic difficulties at home ...”
Military values “... Fascists favoured military values such as courage, unquestioning obedience to authority, discipline, and physical strength. They also adapted the outward trappings of military organizations, such as paramilitary uniforms and Roman salutes. Hitler imagined a God who presided over military conflicts and ensured the survival of the fittest. Mussolini was famous for slogans such as 'A minute on the battlefield is worth a lifetime of peace,' 'Better to live an hour like a lion than a hundred years like a sheep,' and 'Nothing has ever been won in history without bloodshed.' Similarly, a pamphlet published by the Japanese War Ministry in 1934 declared: 'War is the father of creation and the mother of culture.'...”
Volksgemeinschaft “... Hitler envisioned the ideal German society as a Volksgemeinschaft, a racially unified and hierarchically organized body in which the interests of individuals would be strictly subordinate to those of the nation, or Volk. Like a military battalion, the people’s community would be permanently prepared for war and would accept the discipline that this required ...”
Mass mobilization “... Fascists characteristically attempted to win popular support and consolidate their power by mobilizing the population in mass meetings, parades, and other gatherings. Exploiting principles borrowed from modern American advertising, which stressed the importance of appealing to the audience’s emotions rather than to its reason, fascists used such gatherings to create patriotic fervour and to encourage fanatic enthusiasm for the fascist cause ...”
The leadership principle “... Fascists defended the Führerprinzip (“leadership principle”), the belief that the party and the state should have a single leader with absolute power. Hitler was the Führer and Mussolini the Duce, both words for the “leader” who gave the orders that everyone else had to obey. The authority of the leader was often enhanced by his personal charisma.
The leadership principle was also conceived to apply at lower levels of the political and social hierarchy. Fascist organizations sometimes exhibited the so-called “corporal syndrome,” in which persons willingly submit to the authority of those above them in exchange for the gratification they derive from dominating those below. Japanese fascists believed that owners of stores and workshops should exercise “paternal” authority over their assistants, clerks, workers, servants, and tenants. Subordinates were not permitted to organize themselves into unions, and the small bosses assumed the leadership of town and village councils ...”
The “new man” “... Fascists aimed to transform the ordinary man into the 'new man,' a 'virile' being who would put decadent bourgeoisie, cerebral Marxists, and 'feminine' liberals to shame. The new man would be physically strong and morally 'hard,' admiring what was forceful and vigorous and despising everything 'weak' and 'soft.'...”
Glorification of youth “... Fascists praised the young for their physical strength and honoured them for their idealism and spirit of self-sacrifice—qualities, they said, that were often lacking in their elders. Fascists often presented their cause in generational terms. As the young Goebbels declared, 'The old ones don’t even want to understand that we young people even exist. They defend their power to the last. But one day they will be defeated after all. Youth finally must be victorious.' ...”
Education as character building “... Fascist educators emphasized character building over intellectual growth, devalued the transmission of information, inculcated blind obedience to authority, and discouraged critical and independent thinking that challenged fascist ideology ...”
Decadence and spirituality “... Some of the ugliest aspects of fascism—intolerance, repression, and violence—were fueled by what fascists saw as a morally justified struggle against “decadence.” For fascists, decadence meant a number of things: materialism, self-indulgence, hedonism, cowardice, and physical and moral softness. It was also associated with rationalism, skepticism, atheism, humanitarianism, and political, economic, and gender democracy, as well as rule by the Darwinian unfit, by the weak and the 'female.' For anti-Semitic fascists, Jews were the most decadent of all ...”
Violence “... Fascists reacted to their opponents with physical force. Primo de Rivera maintained that “no other argument is admissible than that of fists and pistols when justice or the Fatherland is attacked.' ...”
Extreme nationalism “... Whereas cosmopolitan conservatives often supported international cooperation and admired elite culture in other countries, fascists espoused extreme nationalism and cultural parochialism. Fascist ideologues taught that national identity was the foundation of individual identity and should not be corrupted by foreign influences, especially if they were left-wing ...”
Scapegoating “... Fascists often blamed their countries’ problems on scapegoats. Jews, Freemasons, Marxists,and immigrants were prominent among the groups that were demonized. According to fascist propaganda, the long depression of the 1930s resulted less from insufficient government regulation of the economy or inadequate lower-class purchasing power than from 'Judeo-Masonic-bolshevik' conspiracies, left-wing agitation, and the presence of immigrants. The implication was that depriving these demons of their power and influence would cause the nation’s major problems to go away ...”
Populism “... Fascists praised the Volk and pandered to populist anti-intellectualism. Nazi art criticism, for example, upheld the populist view that the common man was the best judge of art and that artthat did not appeal to popular taste was decadent. Also populist was the Nazi propaganda theme that Hitler was a 'new man' who had “emerged from the depth of the people.” Unlike left-wing populism, fascist populism did not attribute workers’ hardships to big business and big landowners and did not advocate measures such as progressive taxation, higher pay for industrial and farm workers, protection of unions, and the right to strike. In general it spared the wealth of the upper classes—except that belonging to Jews ...”
Revolutionary image “... Fascists sometimes portrayed their movements as 'new' and 'revolutionary,' an image that appealed not just to the young but to older literary modernists such as Filippo Marinetti, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, William Butler Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, and Paul de Man. However, dozens of fascist writers also praised cultural traditionalism, or rootedness' ...”
Antiurbanism “... Fascists also pandered to antiurban feelings. The Nazis won most of their electoral support from rural areas and small towns. In Nazi propaganda the ideal German was not an urban intellectual but a simple peasant, and uprooted intellectualism was considered a threat to the deep, irrational sources of the Volk soul. Jews were often portrayed—and therefore condemned—as quintessential city dwellers. In 1941 La Rocque commented: 'The theory of ‘families of good stock who have their roots in the earth’ leads us to conclusions not far from [those of]Walter Darre, Minister of Agriculture for the Reich.' Romanian fascism relied heavily on the support of landed peasants who distrusted the “wicked” city. The agrarian wing of Japanese fascism praised the peasant soldier and denigrated the industrial worker ...”
Sexism and misogyny “... Under fascist regimes women were urged to perform their traditional gender role as wives and mothers and to bear many children for the nation. Mussolini instituted policies severely restricting women’s access to jobs outside the home (policies that later had to be revised to meet wartime exigencies), and he distributed gold medals to mothers who produced the most children. In Germany the Nazis forbade female party members from giving orders to male members. In a speech in 1937, Charles Vallin, vice president of the French Social Party, equated feminists with insubordinate proletarians: “It is not with class struggle that the social question will be resolved. Yet, it is toward a sort of class struggle, opposing the feminine ‘proletariat’ to the masculine ‘capitalist,’ that feminism is leading us.' ...” https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism
2 Eisenhower Farewell Speech Warning To The American People -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEGpTu8sVKI
3 Explanation of Eisenhower's Warning -- https://quizlet.com/134459405/apush-unit-8-flash-cards/
4 JFK's Warning That America Must Not Impose Its Will Upon The World -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fD8PXIiD1A
5 RFK Speech On The GNP -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FAmr1la6w0
6 Vietnam War -- “... The human costs of the long conflict were harsh for all involved. Not until 1995 did Vietnam release its official estimate of war dead: as many as 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters. The U.S. military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died in the war. In 1982 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., inscribed with the names of 57,939 members of U.S. armed forces who had died or were missing as a result of the war. Over the following years, additions to the list have brought the total past 58,200. (At least 100 names on the memorial are those of servicemen who were actually Canadian citizens.) Among other countries that fought for South Vietnam on a smaller scale, South Korea suffered more than 4,000 dead, Thailand about 350, Australia more than 500, and New Zealand some three dozen ...” https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War
7 The Project For A New American Century pdf & video -- https://ia803100.us.archive.org/32/items/RebuildingAmericasDefenses/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LimQY4Kmhhg
8 Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal -- https://www.amazon.com/Perpetual-War-Peace-How-Hated/dp/156025405X/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4gBleI5HpN-IRRI0XE3mRIWtxapWmxTUY7s_8yCf6fjl_ib3uRiVfQJRR4uBDppVGjwn_R_yhmJw55wEsd-UhxVud2YebJsddhmSfwEsnJQ.XLvKNS9sGmgR-PgV4VULmfAyZXY1wIrj3v5WZRucgUo&dib_tag=se&keywords=perpetual+war+for+perpetual+peace+gore+vidal&qid=1708511460&s=books&sr=1-1
9 Robert A. Heinlein Quote -- https://www.forbes.com/quotes/7974/
10 Fascism Definition, Characteristics & Examples: “... Characteristics of fascism included authoritarianism, nationalism, totalitarianism, militarism, and corporatism. All of these elements were designed to allow the fascist ideology to maintain complete control over political institutions and society. Fascist movements were highly critical of parliamentary democracy, which was deemed by Hitler to undermine the ''natural selection of ruling elites,'' though both Hitler and Mussolini used the electoral political system to gain power initially ...” https://study.com/academy/lesson/fascism-history-ideology-and-influence.html
11 “... As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism …
… Fascism embodied corporatism, in which political representation was based on trade and industry rather than on geography. In this, fascism revealed its roots in syndicalism, a form of socialism originating on the left. The government cartelized firms of the same industry, with representatives of labor and management serving on myriad local, regional, and national boards—subject always to the final authority of the dictator’s economic plan. Corporatism was intended to avert unsettling divisions within the nation, such as lockouts and union strikes. The price of such forced “harmony” was the loss of the ability to bargain and move about freely.
To maintain high employment and minimize popular discontent, fascist governments also undertook massive public-works projects financed by steep taxes, borrowing, and fiat money creation. While many of these projects were domestic—roads, buildings, stadiums—the largest project of all was militarism, with huge armies and arms production.
The fascist leaders’ antagonism to communism has been misinterpreted as an affinity for capitalism. In fact, fascists’ anticommunism was motivated by a belief that in the collectivist milieu of early-twentieth-century Europe, communism was its closest rival for people’s allegiance. As with communism, under fascism, every citizen was regarded as an employee and tenant of the totalitarian, party-dominated state. Consequently, it was the state’s prerogative to use force, or the threat of it, to suppress even peaceful opposition …” Written by Sheldon Richman at https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html
12 Veneer: A thin layer of decorative wood or plastic use to cover a cheaper material. Something that hides something unpleasant or unwanted. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/veneer
13 Corporatism: “the control of a country, society, or ogranization by large groups who share the same interests. Corporattism was orignally conceived of as an alternative to both free market economies and socialism. The word corporatism can be problematic since it may evoke the specter of fascism and authoritarian rule. In some way we are reutrning to an earlier phase of corporatism, one with less consumer choice.” https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/corporatism
14 Fiat Money -- Fiat Money: “Fiat money is a government-issued currency that is not backed by a commodity such as gold. Fiat money gives central banks greater control over the economy because they can control how much money is printed. Most modern paper currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, are fiat currencies.” https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp
15 Militarism: “the belief that it is necessary to have strong armed forced and that they should be used in order to win political and economic advantages.: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/militarism
16 Is The New Right Fascist by Acton University -- https://www.acton.org/religion-liberty/volume-33-number-3/new-right-fascist
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Wow! What a beautiful treatise!
I enjoyed every word, and agree with almost everything you said. Fascists want to control EVERY aspect of life from thought to the supply of toilet paper.
The only difference I have with this well-researched, articulate article has to do with political stances as economics. The United States Constitution was written to be the law of the land. I fail to see how that makes it a political document. It is nothing more or less than the final statement of how this country works. Opinions concerning its truths are political, but not the document itself. Only when it is changed does it become political, and there are very specific statements within it to determine how that might be done. For example, the 10th Amendment says any subject not addressed in the Constitution devolves to the states, but that was ignored when President Carter and the Congress established the Department of Education, a politically motivated violation of the law and therefore does not have the legal standing necessary to even exist. American Constitutional conservatism is only concerned with protection of the Document, True Liberalism here in the U.S.A. is a stance that says the Document can be "interpreted" depending on evolving circumstances. Neither stand is, at its core, based on an economic philosophy. From the clear and simple language used in the Constitution, any change that violates the original intent is, by definition, political, a violation, and legally invalid. All the ills of Fascism in America come from not following the inherent wisdom of the founding fathers, men who actually had the intelligence and nobility to think through its tenets to their logical conclusions.
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