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=> What is Fascism?

What is Fascism?

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Tuesday, October 14 2008, 19:40:51 (CEST)
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As explained by American vice-President Henry Wallace it’s nothing more complicated than the rule of business interests in a democracy where the money-men seize power legitimately through elections. Democracy has its own aristocracy or nobility. It isn’t a land-owning nobility as of old but rather a capital-owning one. If there was no democracy then these few people would rule outright, through physical force and intimidation much as they have through most of history.

But then along came democracy and republican forms of government in which the common ordinary man and then woman were given the power to elect their representatives and through them make the laws. What were the wealthy to do....especially if they didn’t want to be taxed or kept from multiplying their wealth with no interference and, of course, keep the masses paying the taxes for the State?

They could fund politicians to run for office or run for it themselves...even to paying the costs themselves...But they could hardly come out and say, “I want you to vote for me because I’m going to hold down minimum wage, take away your protections, change laws and regulations so nothing can stop me, cut back expenses where your welfare is concerned and spend your tax money to buy from me the things I manufacture”. No one would vote for them.

In a democracy where, theoretically, the mass of people could vote laws entirely to their benefit and welfare, some method has to be found by the aristocracy of wealth to get people to vote against their best interests...usually by creating a situation where it looks like by voting for the interests of the wealthy people are really doing themselves the favor...such as Reagan’s inane “trickle-down” theory of wealth distribution and public good. That is; as the rich get richer some of their prosperity will “trickle-down” the economic scale to you. No one thought to reply, “well instead of trickle down why don’t we trickle UP...the rich can be better off when we poor get a little more.”

It’s quite a challenge to get the common person to put the interests of the already ridiculously rich ahead of his own....How to get them to do it was the brilliant invention of modern Fascism. You do it by scaring the shit out of people...by telling them that “X” group is out to destroy them and if they don’t do the “right thing” it will all be over and even the little hovel and the three pennies they own will be gone.

You need a group that can be demonized and lied about...about which there is plenty of ignorance which can be manipulated into fear and loathing. The Jews were the perfect tool for this where Nazis and their industrial and banking overlords were concerned....Jews and Communism or Bolsheviks were ideal....the Nazis used Jews and the West used the Soviets. Under “threat” of being overrun by these two groups the mass of people in democratic countries became hysterical, opened their wallets, purses and Treasuries to elect, FREELY, the kinds of politicians who robbed them blind, reduced their wealth and security and all in the name of protecting them. It also helps immensely that this hated X group “hate god”...the Jews not only “hated” god, but they killed him too, according to Christians....and the Communists were atheists... and Islam, well Islam has the “wrong god”.

That was then...this is now. Jews are no longer the bugaboo they were...now they are “loved” by the very Christians who hated them and still do, because they are necessary for the “Rapture” and Armageddon....but they’re no longer the handy threat they were. And Communism is gone, for all practical purposes. North Korea doesn’t scare anybody and there was never anything to Soviet Russia to scare anyone either...it just “worked”.

Today’s latest all-threatening threat is Islam....Osama bin Laden, hiding in that cave of his, has people all a-tremble. Although, wouldn’t you know, all America has managed to achieve is to make more Muslims dedicated to defending themselves...which is exactly what Bush and his backers needed...except they call Muslims who defend themselves “terrorists”...and they call themselves, who are doing the actual terrorizing “heroes”. Fascists know the value of language. Islam is “jealous” of us....Muslims are “out to get us”...they are even infiltrating our neighborhoods and secretly trying to undo us...they even have a stealth candidate running for president of the United States, of all things. “My, those people are clever”!

So long as this kind of tactic “works”...you can count on having some kind of group presented as the next “bad thing”. Fear of “X” is the only way wealthy people have of getting us to vote them into office. Otherwise we wouldn’t do it. No sooner did the Soviet Union “collapse” than people started looking forward to a “peace dividend”. Now, finally, we thought, the huge amounts of money spent on missles and shields and weapons could be used to rebuild schools and roads and provide services we’d been convinced we couldn’t afford because THEY were about to get us...and no sooner did the people who profit from war and paranoia hear this than all of a sudden peace seemed impossible in the MidEast...and it’s become more and more “impossible” as the one place left on earth where “danger lurks”. And it will stay that way so long as it pays and so long as people agree to elect the wealthy and their stooges who promise to protect us from “X”.

The last thing the Church wants is for Evil to disappear from the earth. The Pope would carry the Devil on his back and put him to sleep in his own bed to save his life. And the last thing Bush wanted to do was capture Bin laden...if he exists at all. And if Bin should fall off a cliff and die, his “number two” man will be the next Big Thing. Count on it.

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