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hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
2. Something new under the sun is happening nowdays.
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 09:09 PM
Dec 2014

We are seeing the evolution of what I call the New Fascism.

It's a technologically based, authoritarian/propaganda state. It relies principally on the utter garbage that is pumped out of the M$M 24/7 to lull the sheeple into a numbed state where they think all is well, but there is still as a part of that message to be FEARFUL of the other - blacks, gays, uppity wimmin, terrists - at all times. The fear distracts from the fact that the constitutional guarantees Americans have relied on for generations no longer exist unless you are in the 1%. That media also constantly repeats and reinforces the message that our Great American Capitalist Masters can do no wrong. Ever.

What is new about it is the combination of feudal economics with a fascist power structure. Past fascists, from AH to Peron to Pinochet have relied on a strong, relatively prosperous (albeit frightened) middle class as the bedrock upon which to build their rule. Not The New Fascists.

The New Fascist economic project is to literally put all of the wealth of the society into the hands of the top 1% or so, leaving the masses an impoverished peasantry. The fascist elements of the propaganda/police state are there to confuse and distract or punish brutally, that peasantry. The New Fascists believe to the marrow of their bones that one dime in the hands of someone not in the 1% is a dime that is rightfully theirs and they intend to get it and keep it by any means possible, with force being an immediate option should the peasantry not like it.

They want all the Money in the country, and probably the world, and they want all the Power necessary to safeguard THEIR Money by any means necessary. They stole it fair and square, by Christ, and IT IS THEIRS BY DIVINE RIGHT. If propaganda and veiled threats work, that is for the best because those are comparatively cheap methods. But force is the only option beyond propaganda in their minds. And it will be used with a Tienanmen Square-like brutality if it comes to that. In fact Tienanmen Square will look like a Girl Scout picnic if the dullard US masses ever figure out what has been done to them and rise up. The NEw Fascists will never cede an inch or a penny. Ever.

George explains it all here:


Children of Manifest Destiny! nt adirondacker Dec 2014 #1
I wonder how closely the concept of Manifest Destiny is tied LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #9
I often think that religion is invented by the ruling class to herd the flock. adirondacker Dec 2014 #15
"Religion was invented when hifiguy Dec 2014 #21
Not invented by but defiantly used by. zeemike Dec 2014 #23
Something new under the sun is happening nowdays. hifiguy Dec 2014 #2
+1000 JEB Dec 2014 #4
Sadly, I must agree. LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #5
One would think that watching The Hunger Games some may get a clue, but apparently iPhones are a adirondacker Dec 2014 #13
But the people will not rise up WHEN CRABS ROAR Dec 2014 #14
Pretty much sums it up... mountain grammy Dec 2014 #19
+1 eom Odin2005 Dec 2014 #24
America is so past tense WillTwain Dec 2014 #3
Maybe America never was. LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #7
It was, as someone once said of Christianity, hifiguy Dec 2014 #8
In Greed We Trust™ GeorgeGist Dec 2014 #6
The Parable of the Tribes The2ndWheel Dec 2014 #10
Freedom, phooey. If you can't sell it at Walmart, we don't want it. Unlike drunken apes, more like jtuck004 Dec 2014 #11
Humans are lazy, myself included. LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #17
"History supplies little more than a list of people who have helped themselves to the property of Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #12
And those are the people we hold up as examples and LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #18
How about sinful and unclean? That is a phrase that I grew up with in confession and I have found jwirr Dec 2014 #16
I don't know about "sinful." LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #20
I get what you are saying. I think the phrase just means that we have a tendency for doing bad jwirr Dec 2014 #22
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