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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. The creation of the CIA, the McCarthy years during which the real left was beaten back and degraded as a political force, the gradual and growing influence of the military industrial complex, the creation of a massive, well-funded infrastructure of think tanks and media shills, the hijacking of religion, the dumbing down of Americans through incessant propaganda, the destruction of the quality of education available in public schools, the erosion of worker’s rights as well as globalist ‘free trade’ pacts that would facilitate the looting of the fascist oligarchs and finally the stripping away of American civil liberties by a rogue administration who seized power illegitimately have seen that Wallace’s warnings went unheeded. I would strongly recommend that people take a look at Naomi Wolf’s excellent article for The Guardian entitled Fascist America, in 10 easy steps which removes all doubt as to the very dark road that we as a nation are headed lest we draw upon the wisdom of those from the past who tried to warn us, men like Henry A. Wallace. Ed Encho is a free lance writer, activist and consultant who resides in West Central Florida.
Forty years later, the struggle still goes on There are similarities between 48 and 08, except now the bugaboo is terrorist instead of communist. Then Dewey was a Republican retread (waiting until 52 for Ike to get his stateside act together). Dems faced the race question in an earlier version. The Dixiecrat mentality resurfaced when Trent Lott shot from the lip. What was very different were economic needs. After ravishes of war and depression, people really needed to become consumers again. Production only had to be rearranged for peacetime. There's the really big difference! Ike warned us not to militarize to the hilt. We have more than done that. How to unwind is difficult. Edwards espoused the cause of the worker who needed to get back to more prosperous days. That's not the main issue in this election. Whether Obama or Clinton, the thrust is on enabling the corporate world to be a big player on the world scene. Neocons have so thoroughly championed the military/industrial/cybernetic complex that it will be hard for a person like Harry Truman to take on the corruption and collusion which exists now. Take for example this latest flap over giving the big plane order to non-US companies. My logical part says it was inevitable because the dollar is so broken. But my political soul tells me that it will be a chief issue by the time the fall comes. Seeing myself as a 20Something in 48, and looking at the young today, I wonder how they can carry on. Our generation forced an impeachment and then allowed the scourge to go on. After all, in 1964 Hillary was a Goldwater girl. It's a metaphor for the nation. To be sure we must have a viable corporate world. What we do not need is a greedy one. The instutitions FDR put in place before his death need to be made modern. It's not just the UN and WTO and World Bank, but also UNESCO, ILO, and the Human Rights Commission. And, for sure, we have to rethink the genie which was let out of the bag when we chose atomic bombs to end World War II. by
Margaret Bassett (21 articles, 1360 quicklinks, 28 diaries, 819 comments)
on Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 12:50:41 PM
Author, Exec. Dir. The Center For Balance. Websites: PanditPress.com, OligarchyUSA.com, PublicCentralBank.com, EditorFreedom.com,
The End of America by
Kent Welton (50 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 38 comments)
on Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 1:19:04 PM
Ed Encho is a free lance writer, activist and consultant who resides in West Central Florida.
Great Book! I would definitely recommend Naomi Wolf's book as an essential read among many others. Fascism is going to be our future until we are allowed to really see our past other than the flag swaddled, childlike version of it that has been condoned by the state and used to indoctrinate us all into our exceptionalism. Truth be known we are no better than any rotten empire in history and maybe even worse. Wallace understood this which was why he had to be marginalized and the rest of the true left destoyed by the apparatus of oppression that rose out of the ashes of WWII to make the world safe for money and imperialism. Thanks for reading and commenting EE by
Ed Encho (6 articles, 12 quicklinks, 55 diaries, 385 comments)
on Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 2:19:26 PM
Peace Studies Degree from Bradford UK before it became just one more arm of the UK Government's Department For International Developments contractor.
Henry A Wallace Thank you for the article, you might find this useful
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sliphoch (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 24 comments)
on Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 5:58:03 PM
Ed Encho is a free lance writer, activist and consultant who resides in West Central Florida.
RE: American Fascism What is to prevent Mr Bush from staging a false flag event, declaring Martial Law and using NSPD 51 to establish a dictatorship? I truly believe that it is less possible now than before simply because too many people are on to the game and let's face it, the illusion of legitimacy is what protects the system. Bush will leave peacefully presuming that the neocon choices Hillary Clinton and John McCain face each other in the general election which appears more and more likely with each media assisted knee capping of Obama. The fix is in and McCain and Clinton are both warmongers blessed by Joe Lieberman and the Israeli Lobby to continue the Middle Eastern wars of agression, continue the efforts to close down debate in America through casting a wide net for potential 'domestic terrorists' as defined by the Jane Harman-Joe Lieberman travelling carnivals of perversion that will soon be launced under HR 1955 and S 1959 and ensuring that the empire's top export continues to be death. It is said the best way to end a dictatorship is to make a dictator act like a dictator and these people know that, they will continue to sucker gullible Americans with their sham democracy and continue to slowly restrict free speech, ban books and eliminate civil liberties. Just think of the boiling frog because the frog is us. Thanks for commenting EE by
Ed Encho (6 articles, 12 quicklinks, 55 diaries, 385 comments)
on Friday, March 7, 2008 at 5:05:37 AM
American fascism Great and timely post, Ed. Thanks... I recall well my adolescent introductions to the cautionary literature --Brave New World, 1984, It Can't Happen Here. I wish I had read Wallace then. It's a great essay and describes perfectly the US under Bush. Indeed --it DID happen here. by
Len Hart (123 articles, 159 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 483 comments)
on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 5:14:36 PM
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