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In reply to the discussion: What Is the Nature of This Country We Have? [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)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: