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Does Fear Lead To Fascism?
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”—Edward R. Murrow, broadcast journalist
America is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions.
The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other.
Normally mild-mannered individuals caught up in the throes of this disease have been transformed into belligerent zealots, while others inclined to pacifism have taken to stockpiling weapons and practicing defensive drills.
This plague on our nation—one that has been spreading like wildfire—is a potent mix of fear coupled with unhealthy doses of paranoia and intolerance, tragic hallmarks of the post-9/11 America in which we live.
Everywhere you turn, those on both the left- and right-wing are fomenting distrust and division. You can’t escape it.
We’re being fed a constant diet of fear: fear of terrorists, fear of illegal immigrants, fear of people who are too religious, fear of people who are not religious enough, fear of Muslims, fear of extremists, fear of the government, fear of those who fear the government. The list goes on and on.
The strategy is simple yet effective: the best way to control a populace is through fear and discord.
Fear makes people stupid.
Confound them, distract them with mindless news chatter and entertainment, pit them against one another by turning minor disagreements into major skirmishes, and tie them up in knots over matters lacking in national significance.
Most importantly, divide the people into factions, persuade them to see each other as the enemy and keep them screaming at each other so that they drown out all other sounds. In this way, they will never reach consensus about anything and will be too distracted to notice the police state closing in on them until the final crushing curtain falls.
This is how free people enslave themselves and allow tyrants to prevail.
This Machiavellian scheme has so ensnared the nation that few Americans even realize they are being manipulated into adopting an “us” against “them” mindset. Instead, fueled with fear and loathing for phantom opponents, they agree to pour millions of dollars and resources into political elections, militarized police, spy technology and endless wars, hoping for a guarantee of safety that never comes.
All the while, those in power—bought and paid for by lobbyists and corporations—move their costly agendas forward, and “we the suckers” get saddled with the tax bills and subjected to pat downs, police raids and round-the-clock surveillance.
Turn on the TV or flip open the newspaper on any given day, and you will find yourself accosted by reports of government corruption, corporate malfeasance, militarized police and marauding SWAT teams.
America has already entered a new phase, one in which children are arrested in schools, military veterans are forcibly detained by government agents because of the content of their Facebook posts, and law-abiding Americans are having their movements tracked, their financial transactions documented and their communications monitored
These threats are not to be underestimated.
Yet even more dangerous than these violations of our basic rights is the language in which they are couched: the language of fear. It is a language spoken effectively by politicians on both sides of the aisle, shouted by media pundits from their cable TV pulpits, marketed by corporations, and codified into bureaucratic laws that do little to make our lives safer or more secure.
Fear, as history shows, is the method most often used by politicians to increase the power of government. Even while President Obama insists that “freedom is more powerful than fear,” the tactics of his administration continue to rely on fear of another terrorist attack in order to further advance the agenda of the military/security industrial complex.
An atmosphere of fear permeates modern America. However, with crime at a 40-year low, is such fear of terrorism rational?
Even in the wake of the shootings in San Bernardino and Paris, statistics show that you are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack. You are 11,000 times more likely to die from an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane. You are 1,048 times more likely to die from a car accident than a terrorist attack. You are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack. You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocating in bed than from a terrorist attack. And you are 9 more times likely to choke to death in your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack.
Indeed, those living in the American police state are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist. Thus, the government’s endless jabbering about terrorism amounts to little more than propaganda—the propaganda of fear—a tactic used to terrorize, cower and control the population.
So far, these tactics are working.
The 9/11 attacks, the Paris attacks, and now the San Bernardino shooting have succeeded in reducing the American people to what commentator Dan Sanchez refers to as “herd-minded hundreds of millions [who] will stampede to the State for security, bleating to please, please be shorn of their remaining liberties.”
Sanchez continues:
I am not terrified of the terrorists; i.e., I am not, myself, terrorized. Rather, I am terrified of the terrorized; terrified of the bovine masses who are so easily manipulated by terrorists, governments, and the terror-amplifying media into allowing our country to slip toward totalitarianism and total war…
I do not irrationally and disproportionately fear Muslim bomb-wielding jihadists or white, gun-toting nutcases. But I rationally and proportionately fear those who do, and the regimes such terror empowers. History demonstrates that governments are capable of mass murder and enslavement far beyond what rogue militants can muster. Industrial-scale terrorists are the ones who wear ties, chevrons, and badges. But such terrorists are a powerless few without the supine acquiescence of the terrorized many. There is nothing to fear but the fearful themselves…
Stop swallowing the overblown scaremongering of the government and its corporate media cronies. Stop letting them use hysteria over small menaces to drive you into the arms of tyranny, which is the greatest menace of all.
As history makes clear, fear leads to fascistic, totalitarian regimes.
It’s a simple enough formula. National crises, reported terrorist attacks, and sporadic shootings leave us in a constant state of fear. Fear prevents us from thinking. The emotional panic that accompanies fear actually shuts down the prefrontal cortex or the rational thinking part of our brains. In other words, when we are consumed by fear, we stop thinking.
A populace that stops thinking for themselves is a populace that is easily led, easily manipulated and easily controlled.
As I document in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the following are a few of the necessary ingredients for a fascist state:
- The government is managed by a powerful leader (even if he or she assumes office by way of the electoral process). This is the fascistic leadership principle (or father figure).
- The government assumes it is not restrained in its power. This is authoritarianism, which eventually evolves into totalitarianism.
- The government ostensibly operates under a capitalist system while being undergirded by an immense bureaucracy.
- The government through its politicians emits powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.
- The government has an obsession with national security while constantly invoking terrifying internal and external enemies.
- The government establishes a domestic and invasive surveillance system and develops a paramilitary force that is not answerable to the citizenry.
- The government and its various agencies (federal, state, and local) develop an obsession with crime and punishment. This is overcriminalization.
- The government becomes increasingly centralized while aligning closely with corporate powers to control all aspects of the country’s social, economic, military, and governmental structures.
- The government uses militarism as a center point of its economic and taxing structure.
- The government is increasingly imperialistic in order to maintain the military-industrial corporate forces.
The parallels to modern America are impossible to ignore.
“Every industry is regulated. Every profession is classified and organized,” writes Jeffrey Tucker. “Every good or service is taxed. Endless debt accumulation is preserved. Immense doesn’t begin to describe the bureaucracy. Military preparedness never stops, and war with some evil foreign foe, remains a daily prospect.”
For the final hammer of fascism to fall, it will require the most crucial ingredient: the majority of the people will have to agree that it’s not only expedient but necessary. In times of “crisis,” expediency is upheld as the central principle—that is, in order to keep us safe and secure, the government must militarize the police, strip us of basic constitutional rights and criminalize virtually every form of behavior.
Not only does fear grease the wheels of the transition to fascism by cultivating fearful, controlled, pacified, cowed citizens, but it also embeds itself in our very DNA so that we pass on our fear and compliance to our offspring.
It’s called epigenetic inheritance, the transmission through DNA of traumatic experiences.
For example, neuroscientists observed how quickly fear can travel through generations of mice DNA. As The Washington Post reports:
In the experiment, researchers taught male mice to fear the smell of cherry blossoms by associating the scent with mild foot shocks. Two weeks later, they bred with females. The resulting pups were raised to adulthood having never been exposed to the smell. Yet when the critters caught a whiff of it for the first time, they suddenly became anxious and fearful. They were even born with more cherry-blossom-detecting neurons in their noses and more brain space devoted to cherry-blossom-smelling.
The conclusion? “A newborn mouse pup, seemingly innocent to the workings of the world, may actually harbor generations’ worth of information passed down by its ancestors.”
Now consider the ramifications of inherited generations of fears and experiences on human beings. As the Post reports, “Studies on humans suggest that children and grandchildren may have felt the epigenetic impact of such traumatic events such as famine, the Holocaust and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.”
In other words, fear, trauma and compliance can be passed down through the generations.
Fear has been a critical tool in past fascistic regimes, and it now operates in our contemporary world—all of which raises fundamental questions about us as human beings and what we will give up in order to perpetuate the illusions of safety and security.
In the words of psychologist Erich Fromm:
[C]an human nature be changed in such a way that man will forget his longing for freedom, for dignity, for integrity, for love—that is to say, can man forget he is human? Or does human nature have a dynamism which will react to the violation of these basic human needs by attempting to change an inhuman society into a human one?
We are at a critical crossroads in American history, and we have a choice: freedom or fascism.
Let’s hope the American people make the right choice while we still have the freedom to choose.
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Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951) famously said "when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross".
Now you can just say "fascism came to America" and stop right there.
Trump == Hillary
I'll believe that when you can document The Donald's equivalent to Hillary's (and Bill's) Adventures in Arkancide.
Coinhead's talking on a philosophical level that you apparently can't comprehend.
Well, we definitely mustn't have any of that evil fascism. Let's keep on with all this great freedom and democracy... like having what everything the majority of people want thwarted by our oh-so-wise-liberal-zio-ass-licking-leadership. After all... they DO know what's best for us.
Now this is very scary.
Watch this vid it is the very best of all, and someone else said the SUV was a 2016 Ford not yet even released the key is the grill is different in the new model.
and the part 2 and 3 from Paris.
In the comment section the first comment you will click and see the woman they executed is found alive in Morocco and she said her photos were sold to a journalist when she was living in Paris.
scary...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgM6H6sBwBo
We are at a critical crossroads in American history, and we have a choice: freedom or fascism.
"make the right choice blah blah blah...."
so who IS the author voting for? Benito Mussolini or Imelda Marcos?
Countries/Cultures don't throw up 'leadership' like this unless they are in their late decadent phase....
Amerika got its tit caught in a ringer, boys....see y'all on the other side
"Let’s hope the American people make the right choice while we still have the freedom to choose."
...and fixed...
"We had hoped the American people would have made the right choice when we still had the freedom to choose."
It's too late. There is no "America". All there is now is the challenge of staying true to one's own conscience in an impossible situation.
.."More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly"..
~ Woody Allen..
There may be some pieces to put back together after the collapse.
The dumbed down masses are being manipulated into fearing Muslims by a certain ethnic religious group that owns the media, banking/finance, and has DC by the balls.
I can't remember which ethnic religious group that might be... Inuit Eskimos maybe?
summed up so eloquently
Why is everybody afraid to just say it.. ?... Canadians!
True, but not useful in the PR effort. I think that Israeli-Neocon conveys the same information in way that can't be mis-interpreted.
This is obviously a war for public opinion. Freedom isn't doing well, by all indications.
OTOH, they can't win, not in a high-tech world. They can destroy wealth, but they can't dominate in even the mid-term. Too many guns and too many people willing to snipe at banksters and politicians and no way to stop them.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/bunny-bangers/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/the-weight-of-a-gopro/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/uber-toys/
Those were fun to write.
I don't think killing people is the proper approach here. Too many side-effects, the same side-effects that will bring these treasonous bastards down. 9/11 pissed off a lot of people in America, and when the realization hits, Israel is going to become a very different place. The US also, I believe. Vengeance, with bits of justice thrown in is best our Israeli-Neocons around the world can hope for.
fearing Muslims?
Put me down for "mightily annoyed by them" and highly desirous that they NOT be allowed in.
What are we missing by not having large isolated Muslim monocultural enclaves in amerika?
Headscarf sales? Halal butchery? Ululation?? ...and i say this NEVER having indulged in post 9/11 'we need ter kill sum sand niggers over THERE so we donts have ta kill 'em HERE!' rhetoric. But since we HAVE stirred the hornets nest good and hot for 14 years.....
You wouldn't listen to me on the Mexicans....I don't suppose I'll get a better hearing this time either
And we'll it has. Hi y'all
Just like Pavlov's dogs, the fear responce can be conditioned into us. It really doesn't take much to start (911) and 14 years later the conditioning is almost done.
"I fear" I've been wrong about my Muslim doctor for these last ten years! She really might be trying to kill me ;-)
CD
I do believe it started much earlier. We had a very short "golden age" in this country (late '50s-'60s) during which America (ugly though some of us travelers might have been) were still celebrated for having risen to the demands of WWII. I well remember the feeling of optimism and general safety, and during the late '60s the social movements toward ending war and racial, gender, etc equality. It was taken as a given that these attitudes were beneficial to everyone; society as a whole; nations in general. If you didn't "get it" you were a war-monger and that was "uncool".
But peace and love didn't allow for control of economies by ambitious elites. Organic, grow-your-own, back-to-nature, help-you-neighbor! These attitudes were not taxable! Furthermore warfare is an industry ill served by people disinterested in shooting and killing. The idea of "us against them" had to be fostered to offset the desires of a populous rising up and embracing positive, friendly, equality.
I do believe our "homeland" attitude today has been fostered by the incorporation, after WWII, of Nazi scientists peppered with propagandists who were planted to further the Nazi cause. In fact, I think it is obvious - by the use of words, by the used of Overton's Window methods of easing society toward fascism over decades - away from the friendly cooperation between nations. One day enough evidence will emerge as to make the case beyond doubt.
False flags and covert ops overthrowing leaders who will not cooperate with our Economic Hitman's agenda... it only takes a good look at the panorama with unbiased eyes. With the scales fallen, the manipulation over decades is disgusting, obvious, ubiquitous and on-going into the ground. Now it looks like the users might have over-played their hand. Or maybe not. Maybe they have to take it that far to keep us at each others' throats.
After all, there was never anything wrong with peace, love and understanding to begin with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Hate == destruction.
Love is the answer. But rage needs to run its course first...LONG WOODCHIPPERS. I can grow roses with the compost.
Absolutely. I see no fear in not allowing those who won't assimilate or want to kill others entry into our country. This is just pragmatic. If there is no way to fully prove a person will not harm others, it's best to be conservative.
There are no consequences for the government if an immigrant commits a crime. There is the problem.
Miffed;-)
Nice try.
The topic was Israeli-Neocons, not Muslims or other immigrants. They are the great danger, any danger from Islam is entirely derived from the wars our Israeli-neocons have started and our governments fostered with alliances with Turks, Saudis, Gulf states, Egypt, etc.
This anti-Islam stuff is complete propaganda for the precise goal of stampeding us all into supporting those wars and thus keeping their necks out of nooses.
They are going to hang, all of them.
We have just enflamed this and we are culpable in the present day problems. However atrocities in Islamic states have been going on for more than a millennia. This will not stop if we ended our support for Israel or pulled out of the Middle East. They would once again turn on each other
To be herded means one must be pliant and ignorant. Americans are growing sick of war. There may be hope.
Miffed
Or make chum, for the fisherman in the family.
fascism doesn't come from fear...fascism comes from a government that allows itself to be bought and sold. Once that happens, the the high bidders win and you get fascism.
Fear, is a tool of the fascists to promote their agenda and redirect even more wealth in their direction from the taxpayers.
+1
Fascism comes from greed for resources. Greed for power breeds the necessary fear. This self-perpetuating mechanism cannot be escaped outside of drastic measures.
Fascism necessitates a reset. That IS scary, though!
Cyclical.
The Multi-Billion Year Rule of Survival on the Planet Earth:
Fear leads to fucking running.
perhaps fear wasn't the best mechanism to accomplish a self sharpening machine, however it has worked for a billion or more years and counting.
Sam Lowry: I only know you got the wrong man.
Jack Lint: Information Transit got the wrong man. I got the *right* man. The wrong one was delivered to me as the right man, I accepted him on good faith as the right man. Was I wrong?
Fascism uses fear to control human.
Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to Trump.
Yoda?
Travel to far down that path and the way is... lost.
Zerohedge straight line of all time:
"What leads to Hillary?"
ans #1.
a post-Monistat, bee-keeping vegan
The Stank
I am terrified more by the heavy hand of government than by individual wackos. Our government already reeks of fascism. So does the religious group being force-fed to native-born Americans. And the author thinks we have a choice? I fear we've gotten to the point where we have the same choice that America's founding fathers had: acquiesce or revolt.
Yes, Virginia, fear leads to fascism. Just ask Deutschland.
if you like it or not we jews will have sex with muslim woman and have chidren with them. and its not because we cant find jewish woman or the fact that most jewish woman dont look good because of the nose. its because this is our way of fighting racism and and in this case left wing fascism!
i know the rest of the us-population will struggle because of americans dont like to assimilate with muslims for some reason.
but we all mastered our problems until now, sometimes we mastered our problems by just ignoring them, but thats worked out for many of us in daily life, work, polotics, police and economy
Pretty sure that plan isn't working that well. I hope your not in Israel because this scene from World War Z will be playing out there before too long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXsrL2zSWU
please stick to reality and real examples
world war z is a film tha shows the cooperation between jews and muslims. muslims are ready to protect jews and jews are accepting the help, even over-looking the inequality of jewish and muslim life
you and me have seen with our own eyes how muslims are ready to help jews and israel
and obvioulsy we talk about usa not israel
Fear does not always lead to fascism, but fascism is always proceeded by fear.
If the MSM reported on random acts of kindness, truly heroic efforts, charity, kindness, gentleness and other positive aspects of humanity most of this FEAR would fade away in to the background and the government spokesmen would be shunned and ridiculed off the stage, but instead they are trumpeters of misery and evil......
The people turn to Fascism to survive the ravages of corrupt, nation destroying, international Capitalism.
"Work alone can create new work; money cannot create work. Work alone can create values, values with which to reward those who work. The work of one man makes it possible for another to live and continue to work. And when we have mobilized the working capacity of our people to its utmost, each individual worker will receive more and more of the world's goods."
Spoken Dec. 10, 1940. By whom ?
the quote doesn't fit well with a 'service based' economic 'model'. We don't even make our own underwear anymore..... seems strange doesn't it?
yes
yes it does
we Amerrycans make bulets and cruz misiles good, so i'm sure everthin is gonna be ok
Fascism has been the order of the day ever since the Fed began using the stock market as their own personal casino. People are just now realizing this fact. Fear doesnt lead to fascism; GREED leads to fascism.
My parents were there when Germany turned to fascism. There was poverty (after WWI) and street battles. "It couldn't have gone on." one of my elders said about the street battles between Stalin's sympathizers and brown shirts, from around 1930. Fascism, also supported heavily financially by industry, looked like salvation or the lesser evil to some. I do not think that you can unite Americans for fascism, because some unity needs to be there. In fact you cannot unite Americans at all.
constant calls for 'diversity' helps dissolve national unity so the corporate/government merger continues marching in unison towards fascism while the people are left in the ruins of its corruption. Thus 'trade unions' are formed like the EU, CAFTA, NAFTA, TPP, etc
This "national unity" you speak of is a feature of fascism, not its opposite.
It all boils down to fear of death. We are all going to die someday and once people embrace that there isn't too much left to fear. Consciousness goes on and if you haven't seen evidence of that yet you probably will eventually. Certainly there are worse things than death such as extreme poverty or torture which basically are the equivalent to a drawn out death. Well, we were given a right to defend ourselves making the second fear unlikely if one holds their ground and the former can be mitigated to some extent.
As of yet there is zero evidence that the after life is any worse than what we have already been dealing with.
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die.
-Joe Louis
we were well on the way to fascism even before 9/11. that event just help accelerate the plan.
Fascist! Fascist!
http://immigration-globalization.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-is-fascism.html
http://immigration-globalization.blogspot.com/
Fear is to be expected what matters is how you handle it. I find focusing on whats important helps.
"Everywhere you turn, those on both the left- and right-wing are fomenting distrust and division. You can’t escape it."
X-Files v2.0 is coming back to TV.
Hunger Games, Cloud Atlas, The Time Machine, and movies of the same ilk are disturbing and foreboding.
Conspiracy is being marketed to (eg. the pyramid in Big Bang Theory intro.) and factionism is being encouraged, subtlely, but encouraged nonetheless.
Katy Perry videos et al. also bring up the theme. It is ubiquitous.
We are all guilty of taking sides on one issue or another.
I keep coming back to the conclusion that we are soo far gone that the only option left (for freedom-loving people as opposed to apathetic consumerists who don't care) is probably a reset, and as Kissinger said, if you're going to do something crazy, sooner is better than later. (paraphrased)
Having said that:
"Turkey is to receive $70 million worth of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) and associated equipment, parts and technical support after being approved by the US State Department. The approval was procured through the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) with the aim of helping with Turkish participation in NATO missions in the region. Sales of JDAM kits have been an extremely popular order from foreign nations as they allow for the cheap conversion of unguided bombs into smart munition. The kits are to be supplied by Boeing."
Boeing, responsible for the un-interruptable auto pilot (which allowed projects like Northwoods, 9/11, and MH-370) is now supporting ISIS/ISIL/Daesh indirectly.
How does the business class boycott Boeing? How do we Boycott Raytheon, NATO, the Fed, the IRS, globalization? There go our voices, our rights, and our future.
Fear is the easy choice. Round up the usual suspects. Lizard brain for the win. Defense contractors love fear, and they are the big money paying the government. Israel is protected no matter who wins, so there is still a stick to poke the A-rabs with. Fear in a landslide.
all statists must perish in flames
Fascism has already taken over America: the merger of corporations and government whereby corporate power dominates. With the emergence of ever-larger multinational corporations -- due to consolidation facilitated by the Federal Reserve's endless FIAT money -- the corporatocracy has been in a position to literally purchase the U.S. Congress, the Judicial Branch, and the Presidency. Since corporations have already purchased Congress, the result is that many of the nation's "laws" have been re-configured to benefit WE THE CORPORATIONS, rather than WE THE PEOPLE.
"Laws" like NAFTA, GATT and the upcoming TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) resulted in (and will continue) the outsourcing of the U.S. manufacturing base and the destruction of the Middle Class. This is nothing less than the 1 Percenters abusing the 99 Percenters.
Fascism? You can call it "Monopoly Capitalism," "Crony Capitalism," "Mercantilism," "Globalization," "The New World Order," or "Free Trade", but it's all nothing but Fascism.
The writer of this article is warning you like... "Hey you need to watch out! Somebody's gonna steal your shit!", and I'm saying like... "What're ya talking about?.... My shit done got stole about 30 years ago."
Well put. The electronics manufacturing firm's building in Indiana where I worked before I got my engineering degree is still empty and unused in the 30 years since I left. Even the company's name is still on the building as it collects dust.
Great Read.
Freedom to choose? That was done away with once and for all at Appomattox.
Old Abe made the choice for us. Fascism it is.
fear has always been a tool. fascism in the us was only perfected after operation paperclip
When you learn that Special Access Programs were a SS invention imported into the US by the OSS through Paperclip, you learn an important fact about American history. The SAP structure is a toxic payload, notwithstanding what it contains.
Then you should learn about unacknowleged Special Access Programs. Each one is essentially a conspiracy within the military-intelligence complex. The participants cannot tell their commanders, any elected officials, or the President what they are doing.
Just how much Naziism has been imported into and generated in the US through such programs? We may never know. I believe it's a lot.
i fear what the internet can do to people more than fear itself. maybe that's why everyone's buying guns. Don't fear the tyranny of government, fear what the onset of global takeover will leave you, nothing. No one needs us, the US economy is 90% consumer driven and the exports can be made with machines.
It seems like there is an ongoing discussion over the ages about Islamofascism;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamofascism
Please say it isn't so...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/04/sina-is-political-islam-fascism
oh it is...
here you go.
We chose fascism a long time ago. It's just taken 70-80 years for our Hitler to show up.
was it that guy who shot his friend in the face?
These pontifications are getting really tiering
Then perhaps you should step down to a "tier" that doesn't require you to think.
Just what the $#%& would be the "right choice"? Every damn candidate running is a fascist, socialist, or, mostly, both. That we have any choice in elections in the USA is just propaganda pushing the agenda of the elites.
Fear isnt' perfect
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the ignorat masters of social controll will get a lock on it one day
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for themselves alone
Freedom is long gone for Jane and Joe Sixpack, 666 Mainstreet, Land of the slaves...
Turn off the TV.
Fear to Fascism?
Nope - it's gonna be worse.... a lot worse.
At least the Facists built roads, made the "trains run on time" and put the people to work, investing in the national infrastructure - unlike the asset-stripping parasites running the USSA.
Now that the people have been materially, morally & culturally dispossessed, the USSA ZIO-Thug Regime/Oligarchy is conciously using "fear" - as POLICY! -in the "Homeland" and warfare abroad" to install their lock-down Bolshevik Gulag.
Mr Trump might just be their "useful idiot" (albeit unwittingly) in this equation - since any laws "restricting" muslims - "Papers Please!"- will then, in short order, be applied across-the-board to the whole populace.
Think Gaza... Gaza on a bad day.
Erratum: FFFF - Fidgety Fat-Finger Fatigue
“phantom opponents”?
People die, false flag or not.
Only question is “who” wants us dead for the 6pm news.
The choice today is not between freedom and fascism, it a choice between blue coated oligarchy controlled fascism or red coated oligarchy controlled fascism.
Where is the Mayflower and when is it leaving the USSA?
This article is naive. We are already Fascists. We are National Socialists with all is cronyism and divisive race baiting. With all National Socialism you need a race war and it is clear the race war has been perpetrated on the White race. Progressives launched the stealth war many years ago when they attacked Capitalism and our Republican form of government. It has only become clear to the White race in the last 8 years that they are in a war when Obama bin Laden took control.
What you see now is a possible Counter Revolution where the white race will reinstitute Capitalism and a Republican form of Government. It will most likely become violent on the order of the French and Russian Revolutions. This is because as each day goes by you realize that the current sytem is so corrupt where the welfare and progressive "inmates and cronies" control every outcome.
There is a small chance it will be relatively peaceful if you take away the rights of welfare recipients to vote until their benefits have been paid back, which will remove the entire voting base of the Progressives. Then there would be a strong move that would succeed to rewrite the Constitution and institute balanced budget amendments, term limits, termination of administrative regulations, strong limitations on commerce power, and popular impeachment of Supreme Court and Federal Judges.
But that is wishful thinking because look at the uproar that a simple proposal to ban Muslim immigrants produces from the kabuki theater of National Socialism that we label as Democracy.
You’re so indoctrinated it almost hurts to read your comment.
See Arthur Schopenhauer comment above – he knows what fascism is (and therefore what US is).
you mean as in "we whites should be able to fuck anything or anyone up, and take 110% from everything, else we are endagered species"?
Or do you mean that you are an actual polar bear, and thus, endagered?
National Socialist when we are infested with Jews at all levels of society, who work ceaselessly to elimate all freedoms - especially speech and weapon ownership - so they can enforce their Judaeo Marxist Mafia government against the hapless Goyim?
Fear is the mind-killer.
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
The problem is, wasps think they will be fine with fascism, as in "all I have to do is buy some brown shirts". Not that simple.
Let's put the "chaos" in perspective.
Who controls the govt, media, banks, hollywood, central banks and most of the major corporations? The zionist cabal centered on the Rothschild clan, of course.
And guess what, Kerry's real name is Kohn. Go figure.
EASY answer... YES, it does!
A large group of people need to feel protected. They always look for others to protect them.
Luckily a large group wants Freedom! Not a prison cel without rights.
Dont trust people who tell you they will protect you if you just throw some part of your rights away.
"Does Fear Lead To Fascism?"
It can do and probably does in some cases.
But I'd argue that what is really causing the trend towards extremes is widespread disbelief, distrust and disgust in government. And its bare faced lies and refusal to take any meaningful action against those who have caused the utter mess and chaos that we see all around us.
The financial crash, the move towards a surveillance society, rising abuse of police powers and wholesale cooking of the books to hide the truth of an empire and economy that is disintegrating. And of course the march to war.
Many people are well aware that ratcheting up "the politics of fear" and the march to war are thinly veiled attempts by government to distract attention away from the chaos that it has been responsible for causing or allowed to happen.
But those who are angry may not realise that by supporting many of the extremist safety valves, they are actually seeking to replace one despotic corrupt regime with another. Look what happened in Egypt after the revolution to overthrow Mubarek.
Whilst the present regimes need changing one must choose its replacement with great care. New laws to reinforce the supremacy of the US Constitution would be a good place to start. Everything else flows from that.
Those ballyhooing the Fascist bogeman never consider the true nature of the American government now - they need to learn more about Communism, Bosheviksim, International Capitalism and usury before simplly concluding that a government that will use force to murder its own citiziens, from children up (think the horrific death by fire the Fed's used at Waco) is somehow "Fascist". Forget the post WWII definition that simply couples corporate interest with the State, the Fascist philosophy encompansed the whole gamut of society with a view towards uplifting and improving the people in all aspects. Corporate interest served the people. American Marxism partnerships with the State to promote the Internationallism of vulture Capitalism.
This predisposition to being fearful is a precondition the globalists have set up to get maximum reaction to their false
flag staged events like 9-11 and Sandy Hook.
The poisoning and handicapping agenda by the globalists is their highest priority because emotionally and mentally
handicapping the public forms the basis of the public capture and domination by these criminals.
Poisoning the body with vaccines, fluoride, GMOs and chemtrails produces anxiety, depression and apathy that produces a blind loyalty to the globalist-controlled Establishment because it’s
commonly seen as a safe haven to recover. This is all subconscious and goes unnoticed in the public but forms the basis of the public capture and domination process.
The good news is that heroes like Putin, Trump, the BRICS and a rapidly elevating consciousness evidenced in polls is rising up against these criminal manipulators.
Polls indicate the public is finally turning off Mainstream Media and rebelling against this long standing evil in our midst.
Why always speek about fascism, why not fear of communism? The people don't even know what the fascism was. They think that was the Germany before and during the WWII. Wrong...fascism was an ideology in Italy. So stop talking about things you don't understand please.
I am thinking more now than ever before which is saying something for me... Don't mistake the taking of sides in a political battle with people blindingly appealing to authority. Sometimes the threat is real, and sometimes a country needs a strong leader. It should be more about trust... Is the person you're putting in power trustworthy or do they talk out of both sides of their mouth? Are they saying things to get elected or because they believe them to be right? Freedom is cool, and in this situation the way to get more of it is by refusing to bow to the political establishment by letting them install another one of their puppets.