Freedoms, Violence, Democracy, & Fascism

So, it has been a few days since the shooting in Arizona. A lot of information about Jared Loughner has been exposed by the media.  Most of it really says nothing more than the fact this man is deeply, mentally disturbed.  Politicians are all busy pointing blame at everyone but themselves.  News pundits are doing the same.  Sarah Palin backtracked many of her statements.  Gun sales are up.  Some politicians want new laws that basically do everything existing laws already do.  Rush Limbaugh is a loud mouthed asshole, as usual.

Cenk Uygur, from The Young Turks, wrote an op-ed piece about the shooting for the Huffington Post and it was removed.  I do not necessarily fault Huffington Post for removing it.  They have guidelines to follow and it is their site, they may do as they wish.  I think it is important to note this is a rarity on their site.

Still, Cenk had very valid points that no one seems to want to address.  A man shot a member of Congress, point blank, in the head.  And then people say this is not political?  Would this man have shot Congresswoman Giffords in the head were she not a politician?  It is not likely.  And Mr. Uygur points out a lot of the violent rhetoric of the New Right is pretty violent.

But I do not think that Mr. Loughner was compelled by the violent rhetoric of the pundits and politicians, such as Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, or politicians such as Michelle Bachmann and Sharon Angle.  This man is a lunatic. He probably would have committed some random act of violence on someone, somewhere, at some time, without provocation.  There is even little evidence that he was directly inspired by these people.  What really concerns me is the misunderstanding so many prominent people have over the Constitution, the Law, and the rules of the nation.

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No Really, Epithets for Arizona

I haven’t had an entry in over a week.  I wish I could say it was because everything has filled me with a sense of futility, but the reality is that I haven’t budgeted my time very well.

While on hiatus, Arizona made the news again with the mural on a school in Prescott.  An article can be found on the Daily Courier, here. In a nutshell, they hired artists to paint a mural with the students of an elementary school, of the students of the elementary school.  The students were of multiple ethnicities, which prompted some shouting of racial epithets by passers-by for two months.  The artist contributes this hostility to City Councilman, Steve Blair.  On his radio show on KYCA, he stated:

“I am not a racist individual, but I will tell you depicting a black guy in the middle of that mural, based upon who’s president of the United States today and based upon the history of this community when I grew up, we had four black families – who I have been very good friends with for years – to depict the biggest picture on that building as a black person, I would have to ask the question, ‘Why?’”

Then the school decided to “lighten the mural” or, more specifically, lighten the faces of the students.  Then the school decided not to do this, because of the national outcry.

What I find is the real issue here is the attack on “pluralism” and the identification of “who is an American” with a specific image.  This is really fascist.  Not in an attempt to spread a slur around… it really is fascist.  It is a tenant of fascism.  The most notable case was the image of the “Aryan” – the blue eyed, blonde haired German that was the “only real German” according to Hitler’s Nazi Party.  Just like with anything else, there are varying degrees.  Would I equate this to the Nazi platform?  No, not really.  But is it fascism?  Yes, definitely.

This has been a rising tide since the election of the first Black American President.  This rallying cry of the New Right for what it means to “Be an American.”
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Tags: african-american, apartheid, Arizona, chicano, discrimination, equal rights, fascism, fascist, Glenn Beck, Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism, New Right, race, racism, sarah palin, Tea Party, United States
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It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

The world is pretty crazy right now.  To all of my readers overseas, let us examine what is really going on:

In America, we know that “gay marriage” is a terrible thing.  We have to ban it.  This “sacred institution” needs to be preserved.  We need this institution.  It was started as a means to subjugate women.  What could be more important?  First we let gay people get married, and then we have to figure out: Who is the husband?  Which one owns the other one?  Who gets to take most of the money in the divorce? We might even have to make wedding cakes with two brides on the top.

Sex with goats. That has a lot of gray area.  Florida recently failed to ban beastiality, and it is a good thing too.  I mean, how do we know if the animal is consenting or not?  Do not let this cloud your judgment, though.  If men like having sex with men, it does not matter if it is consensual.  They need to do it the good, old fashioned way:  In a sleazy hotel with a lot of crystal meth, preferably with a male hooker or employee.  If you are in a hurry, you could always just jerk each other off in the restroom.  But to actually live with someone that you love and share in their life is unacceptable if you are the same gender.  (Gay women should not be allowed to marry, but we don’t want to talk about it too much, because all the straight men will get erections thinking about it, although, lesbians never have mullets and skull tattoos in heterosexual lesbian fantasies.)

These are important issues, not like the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  The Governor of Texas let us know that the oil spill was “God’s will” and that “nothing could have been done about it.” When I farted in the elevator last week, that was God’s will, too.  Hurricane Katrina was also God’s will.  And the Earthquake in Haiti was “God’s will.”  This is not important.  What is important is covering up the cartoon breast on the seal of the State of Virginia.  This is a much more pressing issue then the coal mines that collapsed next door.  The State of Virginia is also currently celebrating their loss in the War of Northern Aggression.  They do not want to be concerned with trivial issues like slavery, but want to delve into the spirit of what caused them to lose the war against the United States government and be forced to have a tit on their state seal.

People from Mexico coming into the United States has nothing to do with “God.”  Illegal immigrants are another big issue.  Everyone is concerned.  The people on the Right are so outraged that Mexican children are working in the fields and building their houses with no workplace standards, they want to enact an Apartheid system.  Apparently, it is much easier to get a nanny from China or Africa and beat her into submission, because she can’t just leave.  The people on the Left are all worked up about illegal immigration, too.  They claim that “no one is illegal” even when they are not legal.  Everyone has a very strong stance on the issue and are consumed with the details so much that they don’t have time to actually look at what is going on in Mexico.  While the drug cartels are assassinating the entire government of Mexico, we have so much to worry about, like sex with goats, gay marriages, and abortion.

The abortion issue is currently a big deal because of Universal Healthcare.  Apparently, the President passed a bill that provides Universal Healthcare.  This is terrible.  It is so terrible, that people logically loaded their guns and marched on National and State capitals.  (I know that it shouldn’t even need to be said.  Whenever I think about healthcare, my first response is to load my assault rifle.)  These people know what is really going on, the things that are not written anywhere.  They can read between the lines:

First we let gays marry, and then we give poor people preventative healthcare, and the slippery slope starts… next thing you know, everyone is being forced into gay marriages and Communist death panels start deciding who is getting a gay  abortion.  Meanwhile, God is dumping oil along the coastline, so you have to have sex with your goats farther inland… no animal sex on the beach.

We also have a Black President with a funny name.  This means he is a follower of Marx, a Muslim, a Communist, a Black Nationalist, a Socialist, the Anti-Christ, a Zionist and a black Stalin/Mao/Castro.  He is NOT, under any circumstances Se Seko Mobutu.  Mobutu may have caused the death of half a million people a year, but he was not a Communist and all of those people were Black Africans, so they were probably going to die in a year or so anyway.  (We all know that is all that happens in Africa… people kill each other, or get a disease, and die – while the noble animals are all sitting around discussing important issues, like what people to have sex with and not letting gay animals have married abortions.)  This Communist President bailed out private automotive industries to help them keep people employed.  He also bailed out banks and financial institutions.  He did not nationalize these institutions, because he does not want to show his hand yet… the Communist Conspiracy of Kenya. (more…)

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The Fascist New Right

There are a lot of terms flying around today, especially in the political sphere.  They include, but are not limited to:  Socialist, Communist, Racist, Nazi, Fascist, Lib, Liberal, Teabagger, and Thug.  These terms are seemingly used by any, and everyone, with reckless abandon.  The problem is, that when you actually have a reason to use one of these terms, it gets dismissed.  I have noticed a lot of attention on Goodwin’s Law.  The concept that, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.“  This is quite humorous.  At the same time, this does not mean the comparisons are not valid.  I find a strong correlation between Fascism and the New Right. (The Conservatives of today, be they Tea Party, Tories, or National Front.)

Sometimes the Left does propose Socialist ideals, or at least borderline socialist ideals.  “Universal healthcare” could be considered more Socialist than Capitalist.  There is no secret that I think they should stop pretending.  I personally think they should say, “We aren’t concerned with who developed this idea.  We are concerned with something that works.  This isn’t a new concept, and the countries that use it are doing quite well with it.”  Farther, they should point out, “As Americans, we should be trying to do it better than other nations, not avoiding it.”  On the same hand, while I am not a big fan of Fascism, I do not contend to use “Fascist” in this entry as an epithet.  The New Right has Fascist ideology and Fascist goals. Fascism is also not democratic.  So, in some way, I am claiming the New Right are anti-democratic.

I want to reiterate, that I am not claiming the New Right are Fascist to drive a farther wedge.  The goal here is to really examine what is going on.

There are a few things that strike me as odd with the rise of the New Right in the past year or so.  When Barack Obama was elected President, a new wave of protest swept through the nation.  There are tangible threads that weave through this new tapestry that seriously concern me.  Especially as the numbers are growing.  Just last night, the Tories in England got back a large portion of British Parliament.  So, let’s look at Fascism and see how it relates to American Conservativism.  (Fascism is quite complex as an ideology.  This is not an academic journal, so I am just using Wikipedia as my reference for any information on Fascism that are listed here.  I do not believe that Wikipedia is the absolute authority on the subject, or even the best authority, but I’m trying to keep this as short as possible, so… I accept that flaw for the time being.)

First we have the basic ideology of Fascism:

• Fascism is a “radical and authoritarian, nationalist political ideology.  Fascists seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives, values, and systems such as a political system and the economy.“

If you were to go to a Tea Party website, such as the Tea Party Patroits‘ website, you would see, their “Core values” are “Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets.”  – “organize the nation on corporatist perspectives, values and systems such as political system and the economy.”

Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong. . . . They claim that culture is created by collective national society and its state, that cultural ideas are what give individuals identity, and thus rejects individualism.  In viewing the nation as an integrated collective community, they claim that pluralism is a dysfunctional aspect of society, and justify a totalitarian state as a means to represent the nation in its entirety.  They advocate the creation of a single-party state. . . . Fascists reject and resist autonomy of cultural or ethnic groups who are not considered part of the fascists’ nation and who refuse to assimilate or are unable to be assimilated. They consider attempts to create such autonomy as an affront and threat to the nation.

That’s a long block, I know.  I felt it was spelled out better than I could reword it.
The Tea Party and their cohorts have been extolling the virtues of “What makes America great” and that the “Liberal Elite” want to destroy them and make the US culture a multi-cultural, pluralist society that will lead the nation into ruin.  Arizona just passed a law that will fundamentally restrict autonomy of cultural or ethnic groups that are not considered part of the nation.  It will also penalize anyone who refuses to assimilate or are unable to be assimilated.  They definitely find immigrants with foreign customs to be an “affront and threat to the nation.“

“Fascism is strongly opposed to core aspects of the Enlightenment and is an opponent of liberalism, Marxism, and mainstream socialism  for being associated with failures that fascists claim are inherent in the Enlightenment.”
I was just looking at Al-Sonja Schmidt (who I have much to say about in a future time) and there were a lot of references to Marx, Socialism, Black Nationalism and such.  To get the whole trifecta, she said that President Obama was influenced by Marx and is a tyrant.  (He has a foreign sounding name, is pluralistic, and a product of the Enlightenment.)

I don’t think it is really worth spending much time on how the New Right feels everyone should stay in the Cold War and we need to start the Red Scare back up.  I have spent enough time on this ridiculous garbage.

THE CORE TENANTS OF FASCISM:

Nationalism is probably one of the most obvious core tenants of Fascism.  I also highly doubt any Conservative would decry that Nationalism is not a massive “core value” of their ideology.  Is it even worth examining farther?  The real question is if people truly understand the true meaning of Nationalism.

Fascists saw the struggle of nation and race as fundamental in society, in opposition to communism’s perception of class struggle.  The fascist view of nation is as a single organic entity which binds people together by their ancestry and is a natural unifying force of people.  Fascism seeks to solve economic, political, and social problems by achieving a millenarian national rebirth, exalting the nation or race above all else, and promoting cults of unity, strength and purity.

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The Divided States of America.

The United States population has probable not been this divided since the Civil War.  There is truly a bi-polar split in the national psyche.  There are splits and fringes on both sides, but there is still a divide right down the middle.  I recall mentioning this before, but I don’t recall how much detail it was on this site.  What I’m really pondering today, is from a comment I received this morning.  I was asked why we don’t support secession for states like Arizona.

My initial response is: “Please.”  Unfortunately, it is not that simple.  Let’s just use Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.  (Sorry, New Mexico, if we let you stay, my hypothetical becomes even more confusing.)  In the future, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico leave the United States to form the “New Republic of America.”  The first thing we need to consider, is if they allow everyone who wants to remain in the United States to leave.  If they do not do this, it would cause a lot of tension and end up like a North Korea/South Korea situation.

So, let’s assume it is amicable.  The New Republic resents Washington D.C. so much, they want to govern themselves.  The US says, “Ok.”  And anyone in these states leaves to enter the United States… (and the companies that are in those states have to pick a side, too… but now that the Supreme Court decided companies are people, we don’t have to argue specifics.) … and these states are now the new Southern border of the United States.

I’d assume they would all enact Arizona’s “Pass Laws” and end up with an Afrikaner Apartheid system.  But they have their own Constitution, so we cannot deride them for violating out Constitution.

What I cannot figure out, is what their economy is going to be based on.  I would guess agriculture and oil.  I’m sure they would also have to purchase weapons from the United States, to maintain their border system.

So, let’s jump forward ten years.  The “New Republic of America” has been exporting beef, wheat, other agricultural products and oil for ten years.  They have a secure border on both sides and pass laws, that anyone stopped by police has to provide proof they are Citizens of the New Republic.  The average wage is equivalent to US $30 a week.  The University students in America are growing weary of this Apartheid system on their border and protest for full divestment.  Within 2 more years, the United States will no longer sell weapons to the New Republic on humanitarian grounds, or trade with them for oil and agricultural products.  China offers, though, because they could honestly care less what is happening in the Western Hemisphere, as long as it cannot cross the Pacific.  They will need these weapons because, just putting a military zone between the New Republic and Mexico, the drug cartels have completely overrun Mexico.  As the violence from the drug lords escalates, multi-national corporations leave Mexico and go to South East Asia (and maybe the New Republic.)  So, you now have a country that makes Nicaragua look peaceful on the border, you are going to need good weapons.

Now we have Chinese weapons south of the American border, with a country trading almost exclusively with China, the biggest growing threat and competition to the American government and economy.  Of course, up here in America, we also have to deal with people escaping the “New Republic” – to gain wages higher than $30 a month, where we make $300 a month in McDonald’s here.  The New Republic knows not to aggravate the United States, as the US could just send in a few dozen drones and take out the entire government.

Anyway, I’d give the New Republic 20 years.  By the end of the second decade, they will either be begging to come back, or begging to be invaded by UN Peacekeepers.  So, no, I don’t support secession by other states, it would be a travesty.  The loss and suffering on both sides would hardly be justifiable.

One could argue that there are weapons manufacturers and tech companies in the South.  Plenty in Texas alone.  Well, how many would stay and give up contracts to the United States military?  Are the Southern states going to build their own military manufacturing plants?  What is the justification for an arms buildup on the US border?  You’d have to be careful, too much Nazi-esque talk about “enemies” ‘and needs to “weapons” and internment camps for minorities, and you’d have to deal with all of Europe and the United States.  (Or do you believe that England and France would take the side of the South?)

I really don’t see this as a win for anyone.  And this wasn’t an all inclusive example.  There is plenty of contribution from Southern states that the United States utilizes.  Any secession would be detrimental.  The whole world would feel it.  It may even be worse than I had explained.  What if drug cartels or terrorist organizations overran one of the states and launched the US into a century of warfare?  What if China got sick of all the bickering and just blew everything in North America up?  What if England just said, “We gave you a few centuries and you can’t get your shit straight… you are coming back home.” ?

** update **
As per requested, spelling of secession has been corrected.  May 5, 3:00 am PST.

Tags: agriculture, aliens, apartheid, Arizona, Constitution, discrimination, economy, New Mexico, response, sarah palin, secession, Texas, United States, white dominance
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