There is a term that is batted around these days in all sorts of reports and blogs….then there is the less attractive fascism.

First let’s look at the history of fascism…..

In modern political discourse, the terms “fascism” or “neo-fascism” are some of the most charged and polarizing possible. Yet, they are also some of the most overused and misunderstood. Take U.S. politics, for example: Both liberal and conservative parties have publicly accused each other of being “fascist” in some respect or another, and many people argue it’s devaluing the meaning of the word to keep throwing it around so haphazardly.

So what does the term fascism even mean, and is anyone even using it correctly at this point? The term fascism describes a large political movement that occurred in Europe from the late 1910s until the end of World War II. Fascism was an ideology and system of government that served as the antithesis of liberalism and democracy in the early 20th century.

Though they were all different, fascist governments generally emphasized leadership by a single individual, a dictator, who promoted extreme state nationalism through laws and violence. Unlike liberal democracies, fascist governments were totalitarian and did not tolerate political protests or dissent, and they had foreign policies that emphasized a maximalist approach to gaining territory through militarism. In several cases, like Nazi Germany, fascism and anti-Semitism combined to form a horrifying supernova of evil. World War II largely extinguished the original wave of fascism. Unfortunately, it left the equally dark neo-fascism — or modern fascism — in its wake, and the term is still widely used today.

Read More: https://www.grunge.com/1409188/history-fascism-explained/

America has had its bouts with fascism…

Pro-Nazi propaganda, courtesy of the US post office? This unlikely scheme was hatched by George Sylvester Viereck, a German-born American who between 1937 and 1941 sought to marshal US sentiment against intervention in Europe. Those who heeded him included prominent members of Congress, such as Burton Wheeler of Montana and Rush Holt Sr of West Virginia, anti-interventionist Democratic senators known for speeches that prompted accusations of antisemitism. Viereck’s contacts on Capitol Hill allowed him to place anti-interventionist speeches in the appendix to the congressional record. Thanks to friends in high places, he could order inexpensive reprints and have German-American groups mail them out on government postage.

If this sounds out of place in the land of the free, it shouldn’t – according to an illuminating new anthology, Fascism in America: Past and Present, edited by Gavriel D Rosenfeld and Janet Ward. In 12 chapters plus an introduction and epilogue, the co-editors and their contributors make the case that fascism has existed on US soil for well past a century and remains disturbingly present today.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/30/fascism-in-america-book-trump

That brings us to ‘white nationalism’ which is way to try and disguise what is most assuredly fascism.

It has been on the rise for about a decade and came to the forefront with Donald the Orange and now it seems to be getting worse.

In 2021, it was Gosar and Greene along with Representatives Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX) who attempted to launch an America First Caucus that would champion “uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” A secret paper, uncovered by Punchbowl News, discussed the forming of that caucus and the rationale behind it (addressing the supposed threat of “mass immigration” to “the long-term existential future of America as a unique country with a unique culture and a unique identity”). No need even to say “white,” of course. After the document was revealed and some Republican leaders criticized the initiative, all parties involved backed down (at least in public).

Time after time, key Republican figures have leaned into the ethos and ideological aims of white nationalism. It’s no wonder that America’s racists, including the KKK, have fallen in love with the modern Trumpublican version of the Republican Party. Once upon a time, of course, and for decades thereafter, the Klan was deeply linked to the southern wing of the Democratic Party — the Dixiecrats, as they were then known — but began to switch to the GOP as presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and then presidents Richard Nixon (with his infamous “southern strategy”) and Ronald Reagan exploited white feelings of resentment towards the Civil Rights Movement and the national Democratic Party’s support for racial equality.

The Political Rise of a New White Nationalism

American society has become fractured between two warring factions and this next election shows no promise of any healing….

This crisis in American democracy crept up on many of us. For generations of Americans, grainy news footage from World War II showing row upon row of Nazi soldiers goose-stepping in military parades tricked us into thinking that the Adolf Hitlers of the world arrive at the head of giant armies. So long as we didn’t see tanks in our streets, we imagined that democracy was secure. But in fact, Hitler’s rise to absolute power began with his consolidation of political influence to win 36.8 percent of the vote in 1932, which he parlayed into a deal to become German chancellor. The absolute dictatorship came afterward.

Democracies die more often through the ballot box than at gunpoint.

This election could very well be the view of things to come….laziness of the American voter is killing this society.

Will it survive?

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