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09 Jul 08

The Danger of American Fascism

This story ran in the New York Times in 1944. Draw your own conclusions and compare Henry Wallace's analysis to the situation we find ourselves in today.

www.truthout.org/...ce-the-danger-american-fascism - Preview

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    • SOTT: Fascism is the natural world view of psychopaths. It's that simple. - on 2008-07-09
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  • A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
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George W Bush and the 14 points of fascism

In his original article, "Fascism Anyone?", Laurence Britt (interview) compared the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet and identified 14 characteristics common to those fascist regimes. This page is a collection of news articles dating from the start of the Bush presidency divided into topics relating to each of the 14 points of fascism.

www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm - Preview

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02 Jul 08

Fascism then. Fascism now?

fascist dictatorship was the result of political and economic changes these nations underwent while they were still democratic. In both these countries, economic power became so utterly concentrated that the bulk of all economic activity fell under the control of a handful of men. Economic power, when sufficiently vast, becomes by its very nature political power. The political power of big business supported fascism in Italy and Germany.

www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11155.htm - Preview

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    • Comment: In his book Political Ponerology, Andrew Lobaczewski discusses states of societal hysterization.

      It is practically impossible for hysteria to manifest itself as a mere individual phenomenon, since it is contagious by means of psychological resonance, identification, and imitation. Each human being has a predisposition for this personality’s malformation, albeit to varying degrees, although it is normally overcome by rearing and self-rearing, which are amenable to correct thinking and emotional self-discipline.

      During happy times of peace and social injustice, children of the privileged classes learn to repress from their field of consciousness any of those uncomfortable concepts suggesting that they and their parents benefit from injustice. Young people learn to disqualify the moral and mental values of anyone whose work they are using to over-advantage. Young minds thus ingest habits of subconscious selection and substitution of data, which leads to a hysterical conversion economy of reasoning. They grow up to be somewhat hysterical adults who, by means of the ways adduced above, thereupon transmit their hysteria to the younger generation, which then develops these characteristics to a greater degree. The hysterical patterns for experience and behavior grow and spread downwards from the privileged classes until crossing the boundary of the first criterion of ponerology.

      When the habits of subconscious selection and substitution of thought-data spread to the macro-social level, a society tends to develop contempt for factual criticism and humiliate anyone sounding an alarm. Contempt is also shown for other nations which have maintained normal thought-patterns, and for their opinions. Egotistic thought-terrorization is accomplished by the society itself and its processes of conversion thinking. This obviates the need for censorship of the press, theater, or broadcasting, as a pathologically hypersensitive censor lives within the citizens themselves. When three “egos” govern: egoism, egotism, and egocentrism; the feeling of social links and responsibility disappear; and the society in question splinters into groups ever more hostile to each other. When a hysterical environment stops differentiating the opinions of limited, not-quite-normal people from those of normal, reasonable persons, this opens the door for activation of the pathological factors of a various nature.

      Individuals governed by a pathological view of reality and abnormal goals caused by their different nature develop their activity in such conditions. If a given society does not manage to overcome the state of hysterization under its ethnological and political circumstances, a huge bloody tragedy can be the result. One variation of such a tragedy can be pathocracy. Thus, minor setbacks in terms of political failure or military defeat can be a warning in such a situation, and may turn out to be a blessing in disguise if properly understood and allowed to become a factor in the regeneration of a society’s normal thought patterns and customs. The most valuable advice a ponerologist can offer under such circumstances is for a society to avail itself of the assistance of modern science, taking particular advantage of data remaining from the last great increase of hysteria in Europe.

      A greater resistance to hysterization characterizes those social groups which earn their daily bread by daily effort, where the practicalities of everyday life force the mind to think soberly and reflect on generalities. As an example: peasants continue to view the hysterical customs of the well-to-do classes through their own earthly perception of psychological reality and their sense of humor. Similar customs on the part of the bourgeoisie incline workers to bitter criticism and revolutionary anger. Whether couched in economic, ideological, or political terms, the criticism and demands of these social groups always contain a component of psychological, moral, and anti-hysterical motivation. For this reason, it is most appropriate to consider these demands with deliberation and take these classes’ feelings into account. On the other hand, tragic results can derive from thoughtless action paving the way for spellbinders to make themselves heard.

      He points out that Europe entered such a period at the end of the nineteenth century, a period that gave birth to two wars, fascism, and communism. Living in the United States in the early 80s, he saw the signs of the same process taking place.

      At the same time, America, especially the U.S.A., has reached a nadir for the first time in its short history. It is hard to judge whether we are observing the symptoms of incipient upward movement, although it seems likely. Grey-haired Europeans living in the U.S. today are struck by the similarity between these phenomena and the ones dominating Europe at the times of their youth. The emotionalism dominating in individual, collective and political life, as well as the subconscious selection and substitution of data in reasoning, are impoverishing the development of a psychological world-view and leading to individual and national egotism. The mania for taking offense at the drop of a hat provokes constant retaliation, taking advantage of hyper-irritability and hypo-criticality on the part of others. This can be considered analogous to the European dueling mania of those times. People fortunate enough to achieve a position higher than someone else are contemptuous of their supposed inferiors in a way highly reminiscent of czarist Russian customs. Turn-of-the-century Freudian psychology finds fertile soil in this country because of the similarity in social and psychological conditions.

      America’s psychological recession drags in its wake an impaired socio-professional adaptation of this country’s people, leading to a waste of human talent and an involution of societal structure. If we were to calculate this country’s adaptation correlation index, as suggested in the prior chapter, it would probably be lower than the great majority of the free and civilized nations of this world, and possibly lower than some countries which have lost their freedom. A highly talented individual in this country finds it ever more difficult to fight his way through to his right to self-realization and a socially creative position. Universities, politics, and even some business areas ever more frequently demonstrate a united front of relatively untalented persons. The word "overeducated" is heard more and more often. Such "overqualified" individuals finally hide out in some foundation laboratory where they are allowed to earn the Nobel prize. In the meantime, the country as whole suffers due to a deficit in the inspirational role of highly gifted individuals.

      As a result, America is stifling progress in all areas of life, from culture to technology and economics, not excluding political incompetence. When linked to other deficiencies, an egotist’s incapability of understanding other people and nations leads to political error and the scape-goating of outsiders. Slamming the brakes on the evolution of political structures and social institutions increases both administrative inertia and discontent on the part of its victims.

      We should realize that the most dramatic social difficulties and tensions occur at least ten years after the first observable indications of having emerged from a psychological crisis. Being a sequel, they also constitute a delayed reaction to the cause or are stimulated by the same psychological activation process. The time span for effective countermeasures is thus rather limited.

      The blatant disregard for the truth of the Bush administration and its supporters is certainly part of this hysteria. The self-censorship of the press on the issue of the conquering of Iraq and its blind dismissal of the questions arising from the official account of 911 also fits the bill.

      And taking offense at the drop of a hat? Sound familar?       - on 2008-07-02
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  • fascist dictatorship was
    the result of political and economic changes these nations underwent
    while they were still democratic. In both these countries, economic
    power became so utterly concentrated that the bulk of all economic
    activity fell under the control of a handful of men. Economic power,
    when sufficiently vast, becomes by its very nature political power.
    The political power of big business supported fascism in Italy and
    Germany.
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02 Nov 07

Paul Craig Roberts: The Wages of Hegemony

  • Offshoring,
    which turns US GDP into imports and larger trade deficits, together
    with war debts, has eroded the dollar's status as reserve currency,
    undermining the foundation of American power.

  • "See, in my line of work
    you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again
    for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."


    Bush,

01 Nov 07

Hezbollah, PKK and American Hypocrisy

  • There is a parallel terrorist organization called the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK)
  • which carries out attacks into the adjacent Kurdish-populated region of Iran, and the United States does not condemn the PJAK? It even sends its officials to have friendly chats with the PJAK terrorists? How odd!
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30 Oct 07

Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 | The Agonist

  • "This is a really weird bill."

    No, this is a very scary bill. It gives the government the right to arrest and imprison ANYONE who seems to be trying to change the psychopathic run government to something that would benefit the populace instead of the psychopaths who run it.
     - kropotkin on 2007-10-29
  • They seem to include anything that any authority could feel threatened by.

House Passes Thought Crime Prevention Bill

  • SOTT: As the article says, this bill is insane. This particular insanity is known as psychopathy. Read here for more on the implications of this fascist bill. - kropotkin on 2007-10-29
  • This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism.
  • specifically targeting the growing patriot community that is demanding the restoration of the Constitution.
24 Oct 07

The Fascist Blueprint

  • Mussolini created the blueprint (with inspiration from Lenin), Hitler elaborated on it, Stalin studied Hitler...



    Here's how it works (notice how many Bush & Co. is using now.):



    1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy



    2. Create a gulag



    3. Develop a thug caste



    4. Set up an internal surveillance system



    5. Harass citizens' groups



    6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release



    7. Target key individuals



    8. Control the press



    9. Dissent equals treason



    10. Suspend the rule of law

Fascism the American Way

  • Fascism is associated by many scholars with one or more of the following characteristics: a very high degree of nationalism, economic corporatism, a powerful, dictatorial leader who portrays the nation, state or collective as superior to the individuals or groups composing it.

Bush's Absolute Power Grab

  • On October 17, George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This new law gives Bush power similar to that possessed by Stalin or Hitler, and grants agencies within the Executive Branch powers similar to those of the KGB or Gestapo. - kropotkin on 2006-11-01
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