Wealthy libertarians using austerity to create conditions
driving high unemployment, poverty, anti-government discontent, and
misplaced anger to further their own agenda.…
For all the wingnut’s claims that America is an exceptional
nation, they are taking extraordinary steps to destroy everything that
made this country exceptional by following Europe’s austerity agenda
that is giving rise to neo-fascism gaining power and influence across
the continent. The difference between Europe and America is that where
European governments embraced austerity based on flawed economic data
that is driving the threat of fascism, America is suffering a concerted
effort by wealthy libertarians using austerity to create conditions
driving high unemployment, poverty, anti-government discontent, and
misplaced anger to foster an environment conducive to the rise of
fascism.
The players behind the drive toward corporate and, to a lesser
degree, religious fascism in America are rumored to have historical
ties to, and were
complicit, in Nazism’s rise in 1930s Germany and Stalin’s
fascism
in 1920s Soviet Union. Their support for government privatization is
setting the stage for their particular brand of corporate fascism by
funding efforts to gut social programs, increase joblessness, neuter the
federal government, and incite anger among those most affected by their
austerity economics. Some scholars consider fascism an ultra-right wingnut
agenda due to its adherence to social conservatism and abject
opposition to egalitarianism’s premise that all human beings are “
equal in fundamental worth or social status.”
Corporate fascism entails “
principles, doctrines, or a system of corporative organization of government founded on privatization and corporate ownership.” It is important to note that under Nazism, the needs of the individual were subordinate to the needs of the state, and in 21
st
century America there has been a definite trend towards giving
preference to the needs of corporatists like the Koch brothers and Wall
Street over the needs of the people. Subsequently, the repugican push
to decimate government investment, eliminate social programs such as
Social Security, Medicare, and other crucial safety nets, combined with
killing jobs and increasing poverty among the population is leading
America down the same austerity path giving rise to the dangerous
neo-fascism threatening Europe. For a portent of what awaits America if
its addiction to austerity economics is not broken soon, a brief history
of how Europe is falling victim to the threat of fascism is reported
here.
It is a cautionary tale that both describes what lies in store for
America if it continues pandering to corporatists and religious
extremists, and reinforces what economists and liberals have proposed is
a solution to save America from the threat of corporate and religious
fascism.
A little over two weeks ago in Kansas, a neo-Nazi
group held an event to commemorate a
travesty in 1938 Germany
when paramilitary and non-Jewish civilians swept through streets across
Germany destroying and ransacking Jewish homes, synagogues, schools,
and businesses to protest conditions many Americans are facing today as a
result of repugican economic austerity. For the neo-Nazis, the Night
of Broken Glass is an auspicious event and the white supremacist party
that claims to be “
the party for every patriotic white American”
teamed up with white supremacist groups such as the white christian
Aryan Nations, the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, and the
Traditionalist American Knights (a KKK affiliate) to protest against
granting amnesty to “
illegal aliens” they claim are responsible for the “
nation drowning in a free fall of economic collapse.” The group passed out
leaflets for the rally that said, “
If
you are working for a slave’s wage, making barely enough to feed your
family, and are tired of seeing the corruption that is crippling our
land, the time to get active in this fight is now.”
The neo-Nazis have bought in to right-wingnut extremists’ (repugican)
ploy to assign blame to immigrants (among others) for the nation’s
economic woes characterized by pitiful wages and no jobs that make it
impossible for millions of Americans to feed their families. However, it
is not because of undocumented workers, it is the Koch brothers’ and repugican austerity they see is successfully contributing to the threat
of fascism in Europe, and soon in America if it continues according to
their plan. Like Hitler’s propaganda machine in Germany, there is a
concerted effort by repugican wingnuts, libertarian corporatists,
and religious extremists to place blame for the nation’s ills on
immigrants, atheists, gays, women, and particularly government
regulations and taxation as the sole reason the masses are not thriving
economically.
There is a reason the Koch brothers and their cohort ALEC are
funneling millions to anti-government teabaggers and religio-wingnut
anti-choice agitators, and it is part of their plan to stir up
opposition to equal rights, religious freedom, and particularly the
federal government and social programs. Inciting discontent and division
among the population, coupled with their job-killing austerity
economics, stagnating wages, and domestic spending cuts is the recipe
for the growth of fascism and at some point the people will look to a
champion who will promise a path to economic prosperity if they are
given authority to transform America according to the Koch brothers’
libertarian vision of no federal government, no regulations, no
taxation, a return to 'christian moral values', and free market capitalism
that is code for corporate owned-and-operated government.
America is afforded a measure of protection from fascism because
there are still social programs and protections set in place to prevent
the entire population from falling into abject poverty, but they are
under assault from surrogates for corporations and Wall Street. The repugicans have attempted to destroy social programs under the guise of
deficit reduction and instilling personal responsibility into the
population, but their policies are responsible for the peoples’ economic
plight that Kansas neo-Nazis protested against two weeks ago. For their
part, wingnuts have openly driven a wedge between the population
that is crucial to the rise of fascism, and whether it is opposition to
immigration reform, religious freedom, women’s rights, or workers’
rights, the goal is always to pit one set of Americans against another
to distract attention away from the real culprits; repugicans,
corporatists, and religious extremists all funded by the real advocates
and benefactors of corporate fascism; the Koch brothers.
The people of this country are being given a preview of what lies in
their future if they allow repugicans to continue doing the bidding of
the Koch brothers. The teabaggers, religious extremists, and racists are
all being manipulated to do the will of the Koch brothers, and when
their corporate fascism does come to America, it will be wrapped in a
corporate flag emblazoned with Koch Industries’ logo and no bible, guns,
or copy of the Constitution will save them.
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