The name of the new world order--or here we go again!

Started by Mike Cl, May 14, 2022, 07:10:50 PM

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Mike Cl

My Take: The nature of fascism.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nature-fascism-041507179.html

There seems to be a huge uprising of leaders who are fascist (and not just in this country) and a huge number of people who are supporting them; they are growing in number and power.  And this country seems to be leading the way.  This snippet from the article is particularly worrisome:

-Historians studying Fascists have discovered they shared many traits:

-Powerful and continuing nationalism. You oppose me; you're no patriot.

-Disdain for human rights

-Use of and often creating chaos to justify control to restore order

-Identification of enemies, creating fear

-Racism, scapegoating minorities as a unifying cause

-Supremacy of the military; the use of force to solve problems

-Obsession with national security

-Rampant sexism

-Control over mass media; no free press

-The Big Lie, propaganda

-Banning and burning of books

-Use of the judiciary to protect their power

-Intertwining of government and the dominant religion

-Protection of corporate power; a symbiotic relationship with the very wealthy

-Suppression of labor power

-No concern for income inequality

-Disdain for intellectuals and the arts

-Obsession with crime and punishment; often miss-applied to minorities

-Rampant, nepotism, cronyism and corruption

-Fraudulent sham elections

-Cult of personality; loyalty to a messianic leader who says, "I alone can fix it!"

This is a checklist of who Trump is and how he operates. 
Do practice your goose stepping and stiff-arm salutes.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?

ferdmonger

'Its the economy, stupid!'

I'm voting for fascism, because gas prices and all.

I fear this mindset > lack of critical thinking - is too common in this country.


FreethinkingSceptic

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Quote from: Mike Cl on May 14, 2022, 07:10:50 PMMy Take: The nature of fascism.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nature-fascism-041507179.html

There seems to be a huge uprising of leaders who are fascist (and not just in this country) and a huge number of people who are supporting them; they are growing in number and power.  And this country seems to be leading the way.  This snippet from the article is particularly worrisome:

-Historians studying Fascists have discovered they shared many traits:

-Powerful and continuing nationalism. You oppose me; you're no patriot.

-Disdain for human rights

-Use of and often creating chaos to justify control to restore order

-Identification of enemies, creating fear

-Racism, scapegoating minorities as a unifying cause

-Supremacy of the military; the use of force to solve problems

-Obsession with national security

-Rampant sexism

-Control over mass media; no free press

-The Big Lie, propaganda

-Banning and burning of books

-Use of the judiciary to protect their power

-Intertwining of government and the dominant religion

-Protection of corporate power; a symbiotic relationship with the very wealthy

-Suppression of labor power

-No concern for income inequality

-Disdain for intellectuals and the arts

-Obsession with crime and punishment; often miss-applied to minorities

-Rampant, nepotism, cronyism and corruption

-Fraudulent sham elections

-Cult of personality; loyalty to a messianic leader who says, "I alone can fix it!"

This is a checklist of who Trump is and how he operates. 
Do practice your goose stepping and stiff-arm salutes.
Essentially, a list of entirely ambiguous assertions which, without any meaningful contextualization, could be interpreted to mean anything one wants them to mean, about whoever they want them to mean said thing about.

I'm unsure how a regime such as that of Nazi Germany actively exterminating peoples they believed to be "mentally or intellectually defective" equates to a "distain for intellectualism". Much as how fascist leaders and philosophers were always "intellectuals", or above-average in intelligence and education (but, in no means immune to human folly or corruption).

Obviously their favor of intellectualism was so extreme that they found it palpable to exterminate people on the basis of their intellectual qualities.

Ideologies which heavily favored "the people", "the proletariat", or the interests of groups viewed as "minorities" victimized by a bourgeoise (or "elite"), such as Marxism or Communism, could be said to be much more anti-intellectual in their rhetoric (despite them likewise being founded by radical intellectuals themselves).

Also, fascism is much more imperialist and globalist (which is closer to the original definitions of "nationalism", since "nations" were always more global in scope than mere cities and towns which people identified their "tribe" with) - the goal of fascism has always been to expand their ideology globally and subvert all "inferior" nations, tribes, and such - to a global, fascist empire or "new world order" of sorts.

Much as Hitler had no problem subverting his own country (Austria) to the interest of Germany's globalist, fascist empire - any minority ethnic or subcultural group which its own localized "identity" over that of the fascist empire and cause would've been viewed as seditious and antithetical to fascist values.

If they were just "isolationist", this would be them recognizing the equality and sovereignty of other nations, cultures, and tribes - which would've been heretical to fascism's goal of their "superior" tribe forcibly dominating and controlling all "inferior" ones.

ferdmonger

How can anyone be a republican now?  They quite literally don't have a national platform.  Think about that.  A major political party that doesn't have a platform.  Or as Mitch McTurtleface says:  'Vote for us and we'll tell you our platform.'

We know your platform Mitch.  We hate gays, abortion, public education, immigrants. and non-christians.

The republican party is saying the quiet parts out loud.

Dark Lightning

Last presidential election, they didn't even bother to claim a platform. Crazy how anyone can vote for that.