Reply #29: Fascism part of older evil

[PATRICK]

Of course Wallace was the WWII generation and it makes sense to beat the local right wingers over the head in that they not only were the same weasel breed as their Euro counterparts, but aided and abetted them all they could, some even after Pearl Harbor.

No, what really makes the right gnash their teeth is that FDR(wealthy old money caste) and not a thug like Mussolini took over during the Depression and was on hand to slap around the LOSERS cementing victory with the populist progressive New Deal and vice versa. Wallace and a few others could hardly crow. ALL the terms were swiftly co-opted by the Right as they switched to Hitler's crusade against Communism as their new win-win strategy. Currently, they keep spinning words so hard in vicious circles that their brain cells are going up in bitter flames.

The whole issue is thus disconnected. The most monstrous and revealing, pre-eminent LOSERS were set apart like aliens from Mars, a sign of "foreign" monumental evil that gleaned no lessons for America at all except they had to do the same to the Commies. Naziism doesn't stick because didn't out local Righties pitch in and defeat the German Righties? Eventually, that is?...
The Nazis, the Robber Barons of all centuries, hegemony minded finaciers and imperialists, industrial-military complex, the "nobility", organized crime are pretty much all the same ideological track replete with attendant thugs, Macchiavellian gameplans, self-aggrandizing agendas from the Devil's own workshop. Depressingly the same and keeps working enough harm to perist like recurrent cancer. There are NO "new ideas" on the left, only a facade in its current energetic permutation. They are incapable of learning the truth as skilled as they are in learning dirty tactics. It is a large grouping of men too often admired and "respected" so that the worst of them take a blank check of elitism to rob the common bank. That is not to say that all men of wealth and power are evil, only that they are trapped by their position and faith into allowing the extremists to go unchecked, especially when a progressive world makes them afraid.

Nazis are a subset of the Right Wing itself, which is the proper global term today. Fascism was the flavor of the month to exploit the post WWI chaos in defeated Axis nations. The usual sponsors were there, some bitter at their personal humiliation and losses at the hands of socialist postwar governments. No, the use of the term fascism is an icon of monstrosity and loserhood, even though the ideology and the violence is very much to the taste of these psychological and caste types. They have been trying to brand their enemies- ANY enemy- with something similar in the childishly spiteful and self-defensive spirit for they are renowned. "Liberal" hardly cuts it and "Commie" is remote and worn out.

What you need to do is get the culture to focus its blurred and sidelong glance at the WHOLE picture. Fascism springs out of the Right like weeds in your "deregulated" lawn. Its power structure is always money, military, thuggery and ignorant exaltation, a rigid and mindless pyramid to simplify the task of the ruling class. Now I am not all that much a naive fan of other human groupings, but the Right in particular is "wrong" for the times. They will get everyone killed, or at least very needlessly high numbers, and not in a way as to "healthily" thin the race or gratify "oh well, there's always Armageddon" fundies. The Right is so wrong that, in scale and numbers, anything they try will harm more people and institutions than Hitler ever did because it is that out of wack with the very world all humanity is making. Of course,they appear goonish and silly as a class until the blood starts flowing and the starvation and disease set in.

There is hope only if better people get their act together. A good opener is to throw out the cliche book and look hard at ourselves, dispassionately, compassionately. And not glorify and enable the very very worst retrograde elements of humanity, not let them call the shots in any way at all. And the worst elements are the Right and easily proved by their deeds and constituencies. What is the mutual shared ideological and methodolical grouping? Mob-Intel blackbaggers- Poisonous and military industrial complex dinosaurs- power grabbing moguls- radical hate groups- greed soaked snobs- sycophants- jerks, inertia bound cowards and provincial rot, etc. etc.

When Jesus said thieves, murderers and prostitutes would storm into heaven first he was looking hard at a more despicable class of hyumanity- those ORGANIZED to "respectably" abuse ther fellow man and assuming the roles of God and goodness and social tradition ALL to themselves and their current, unsustainable Mammonite success.

Well, in today's world the good people who always vastly outnumber degenerate immoralists and smashing morons, are organized too. Too bad we don't match their terrible purpose with more energy of our own. This is a rather embarassing test of primary survival. The real work comes after dealing with the backsliding negatives. Or will the entire human experiment be aborted and crucified in this sad, irrational fashion?