Is what we are facing in this country ... currently. That being what the Left wants.What Peter Hitchens explains as how the Authoritarian Left never rests.And that by establishing themselves as above all others due to their belief that their POV is The Most virtuous." Their endless determination and deep belief in what they want and often subtle and in many cases very clever organization to achieve.It's been very very well exercised revolution." Understanding where the final years of the Soviet Empire was misguided. Not by some Sexual Revolution or cultural mores, violent overthrow or seizures of banks and industry.But by " the capture of these long institutions { University's, newspapers,publishing houses and schools.So after 30 or 40 years of that you would pretty much control the public mind and pretty much get what you wanted. " Which is precisely where we are. Our Country is virtually stuck between a rock and the hard left. Always keeping in mind that the Left believes strongly in their own understanding of what constitutes virtue.That you are a Good or bad person based on your certain opinions. Therein lies the rub.Facts be damned.You are a good person based solely on your high and mighty opinions.That is a form of self-gaslighting. Which of course pretty much makes diologue impossible. Which is where our country sits right now. This long seemingly never ending march to indoctrinate a certain belief in one's own interpretation of what is Good or Bad. Knowing how incredibly easy it is to mislead the populace. " It's extrodinary how gullible people are. " " It takes some nerve not to run with the crowd ". The Left is using BLM and a virus to take over and control. Because the Masses are Gullible.Our Hard Left have mastered the technique of disallowing one's Freedom of Speech. We see it plainly with Twitter and Facebook.Or anyone speaking up at ones loss of Freedom and Liberty in Blue State Covid lockdown marching orders.
Good description of the transition from totalitarian political faction to mob, to herd, to stockyard, to slaughterhouse. "The attraction of evil and crime for the mob mentality is nothing new. It has always been true that the mob will greet "deeds of violence with the admiring remark: "it may be mean but it is very clever." The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or a concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the move- ment is not touched." THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM, By Hannah Arendt, Meridian Books,New York, 1958. https://archive.org/stream/TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism/The-Origins-of-Totalitarianism_djvu.txt
Scares me to see this. The US has become fascist and folk are whining about the left? Post-truth has ejaculated.
Therefore the urgent need for an Antifa. Where 2 legs are good but 4 legs are better.I get how that mindset works.The Left desires a country of sheeple.Biden basically said as much as far as Blacks are not as " Diverse " as the Hispanic Community.
Antifa went from irrelevant to everywhere in a matter of weeks. Amazing how easy it is to manipulate the right wing authoritarian
The Right Wing is not Authoritarian.Anything but. The Right wing honestly and predictably believe in our Bill Of Rights.Our sacred Constitution. You have been effectively codswalloped.Like a Druink in a Pub running their mouth and making next to No Sense. Unless and of course they are sitting next to a Democrat. Who are Authoritarian by flavor.Like Flavor of the day.Or week.
How Ironic can it git.To be Intellectual like a Leftie and then also a ballbusting authoritarian whose overall intent is to Deny debate. Like what University Professors and their benefactors { Administrators } have been pulling for years.More as each decade passes. To Be Intellectual now is to be found out ... Hardly. To be Intellectual is to always be aware and then elucidate that awareness.Not Limit or Deny it.
Is this supposed to be a counter argument? I can't seem to find the critique of hundreds of RWA papers
How about the vaunted { Overrated N.Y.Times } as proof. They cited how Fox News Prime time lineup { Nightly } of Tucker Carlson,Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham during June and July Dominated TV.Easily beating the Cable News MSNBC and CNN AND the Networks. No shortage of argumentation from Right Wing Carlson,Hannity or Ingraham.What else ya got Bub?. Or want . Some free popcorn.
Complete nonsense. If trump hadn't been encouraging white supremacists and unreconstructed southern secessionists for the past 4 years, he wouldn't be facing the anger he is now from people who've had enough of his racist demagoguery. If trump hadn't failed so spectacularly in handling the pandemic, he could be riding the crisis to re-election on a wave of admiration for leadership instead of letting a little virus ruin his presidency because of his total lack of character. You can whine on ad nauseam, but it won't change the perception of trump as a complete failure. https://apnews.com/2a03a4e685316eb7d5a6e7181000fbfe
The amazing thingy is that the Left doesn't need to explain their crazy talk.Because they have the MSM doing their bidding. That is why this concerted effort to keep Joe Biden in his basement.Because he is gaffe prone and has no record to run on. Just constant complaining every other day when Trump does something. Anything.It's no different than what Elmer Fudd lives to do against Bugs Bunny.
Perhaps use the definition to play fascist bingo? Roll the numbers! Number 69, 'the reactionary and terroristic dictatorship of finance capital'! Trump uses his position to mandate economic destruction. Nationalism provided the initial means to ensure compliance. But its more than that now. Make America Great Again ultimately allowed elimination of any real notion of economic individualism. Number 18, anti-intellectualism ('obedience, discipline, faith and a religious belief in the cardinal tenets of the Fascist creed are put forth as the supreme values of a perfect Fascist. Individual thinking along independent lines is discouraged. What is wanted is not brains, daring ideas, or speculative faculties, but character pressed in the mold of Fascism'). Right wing authoritarianism has been fully unleashed. Thus, there is no notion of truth. There is only acceptance of the leader's dictate. Suddenly believe that anarchism is everywhere and a threat to the master race? Check! Brown shirts on the streets, decked in modern camouflage, generates but a whoop! Number 1, the Theory of the Elites. Do we have acceptance of a natural talent for ruling over the masses? Yep. It starts passive. While Trump is not a self-made man, there is worship of his business skills. But it soon snowballs. Evidence is deemed to be an intellectual liberal conspiracy. Blacks are deemed to be inferior and a manipulated mass controlled by the Dems (who, like the Jews with the Nazis, are somehow deemed to be chief architects of the downfall of America). Racism is legitimised. Number 2, reaction against democracy ('the mass of men is created to be governed and not to govern; is created to be led and not to lead, and is created, finally, to be slaves and not masters: slaves of their animal instincts, their physiological needs, their emotions, and their passions'). America has arguably always 'played' democracy. Folk never really cared that much about the reality. They could always crow "but we are a republic" to avoid the anti-democratic practices. But you now have open contempt for democracy. Fake claims of bias have been used to delegitimise democratic outcomes. A President is now in a position to reject those outcomes. Number 88, the broad measure 'fascism is in its broadest meaning a revolt against the modern age, against democratisation, secularisation and internationalism'. Check again! America has always played this card mind you. How many times has it engineered coups, destroying democratic decisons? How many people have died through its contempt of foreign independence? Our last number, 99's corporatism ('a system of political and economic decision-making based on the representation of organised interest groups in government'). The Military Industrial Complex always showed the nature of this corporatism, with wars engineered for profit. Factor in also how money dictates political outcome and you soundly reject any notion of politicians following the public interest. Bingo!
All well and good { not really }. But I doubt our Founders { most of whom were very Intellectual } thought in that vein. Keeping in mind " If men were angels no government would be necessary " -- James Madison Intolerance is at the root of things such as the Inquisition and also Fascism. " For Fascism is a lie told by bullies,A writer who will not lie cannot live or work under Fascism. - Ernest Hemingway Tucker Carlson explains it most nights.
The U.S. hasn't become fascist. We are simply under attack by the fascist Antifa group, a very small percentage of the population. Reiver is alway obtuse in his statements.
I'd prefer content and then wait for Netflix... Get back to me if you can actually respond to any of my post and its application of fascist definition. Dont forget to finish it with "yes Reiver, none of that can be applied to Antifa". Cheers!
RWA is a psychological experiment reality, repeatedly tested and able to understand multiple right wing attributes. LWA isn't. You can refer to specific "left wing" groups that are also easily classified as authoritarian, but lefties already condemn them (e.g. Orwell and Stalinism).
Kinda like Saul Alinksky's Rules for Radicals. Not exactly a breakdown of Marx and Engels Communist Manifesto but seems to work in a pinch. I mean it did and does for those like Obama. Rules for Radicals numbered a dozen. It could have made a Bakers dozen { 13 } if the Last rule included : 13.) Just Kidding around.It's good to kid. I mean,Kids seem to like it.