Defeating Fascism before it’s too Late

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3. Those who support the democratic left in Latin America know exactly what 'fascist' means.

God knows the meaning has been demonstrated, in blood, over and over and over again. But, I'm sure fascists have a few semantic quibbles.

One thing is fact, the fascist right likes to portray the right-wing fascist oligarchs of Latin America as... regular people, the bedrock of the 99%. As "caring".

Fascists everywhere don't like the word 'fascist'. Compared to in its glory days, the word is in disrepute. Fascists dislike references to history, esp. to US based planning, support and orchestration of fascist coups and fascist movements in Latin America -- ESPECIALLY when those references are to recent events, attempted coups and capital strikes having a remarkable similarity to this decade's ongoing fascist attempts to overthrow Venezuela's (for one) democracy.

It's the *word*, it's the *term* 'fascist' that fascists don't like: not the methods. Not their fascist leaders or their fascist objectives. In fact, at the same time that fascists are wincing at the word 'fascist', they're inevitably promoting fascist violence against recently elected leftist gov'ts. Because they are working toward a right-wing coup, promoting a civil war that'll bring in the fascist right-wing government that lost in elections, they promote violence at every step (or every post) - that's just the way of it.

To say the least, those same fascists don't like references to the fact that Maduro and before him Chavez were democratically elected. That isn't part of their narrative. They prefer to repeat ad infinitum the lie that these are "dictators", since that lie best fits their anti-democratic fascist plans. They're like American Enterprise Institute stooges repeating the refrain that Obama is a "Kenyan", so not a legitimate US president - because what matters to them is their hateful bought-and-paid-for fascist message and that one simple lie gives them carte blanche. Because their aim is to disrupt and throw a monkey wrench into the machinery of democratic reform.

Most certainly Latin American fascists are wreckers of all things leftist. They are also very violent - having no inhibitions against ramping up violence to overthrow democracies and to terrorize and kill reformists. History has shown, 100% of the time, that it's what they fucking do.

It's not at all different in mainland USA, where e.g. fascists HATE the ACA, however tepid the ACA correction is. They do everything, tell every lie (death panels! communism!) to discredit it in the MSM, and they devote their entire political capital toward destroying it.