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American fascism is one of a kind. Its economic system is neither free
enterprise nor pure egalitarian socialism, but more akin to a
buffed-up, modernized, globally dominant Mussolinian corporate state.
Its militarism rivals and in many senses exceeds any of history’s
fascist regimes, in power, uninterrupted belligerence, and sheer size.
Its presidency is the most revered and powerful Fuhrer in world
history, despite and actually due to its democratic nature. America’s
racial nationalism is unusual but very real, combined with pretensions
of anti-racism. Its police state enslaves and punishes, at home and
abroad, in ways that would make Franco or Perón envious, even as it
allows for a relatively wide range of social liberty.<br>
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When Keith Olbermann called Bush a fascist in 2008, the conservatives
thought it seditious and threatening. When Glenn Beck began sounding
the alarm in 2009 that America was moving toward fascism, the
progressives thought it crazy and dangerous. Both of these statements
were not hyperbole, however. If anything, antiwar lefties and populist
rightists only know the half of it when they use the dread "F" word,
since they fail to note how intimately much of their own favored agenda
falls in line with what they despise...<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">When it comes to
power – the actual control the president has over resources and his
capacity to destroy human life – no other fascist leader has ever
approached what is at the president’s fingertips. No other political
office has lasted so long with so much Caesarian prerogative. No other
political position was ever credibly believed by so many to have the
power to do so much good. In America, the president is a deity – which,
paradoxically, is why so many political opponents take it so personally
when someone they dislike has the office. Some Americans don’t want to
see the greatness of their country tarnished by a perjurer like Clinton
or a doofus like Bush. They might even question the officeholder’s
legitimacy, as with Obama. But this is because the office is so
revered. The presidency itself is upheld as the commanding office of
the nation, the secular savior of the world. It is the godhead of
America’s democratic omnipotence. It is a sacred position. The fact it
is an elected office occupied by imperfect souls only bolsters its
unparalleled grandeur. To say the Leader Principle isn’t alive and well
in this country is to define the concept too narrowly.<br>
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America's Unique Fascism <br>
Anthony Gregory<br>
<a href="http://lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory239.html">http://lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory239.html</a><br>
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....religion plays a fascinating part of American fascism, as both
devout Christians and secular liberals see the state as a divine
institution. For the fascist left the state is its secular God. For the
fascist right the U.S. government is an arm of God’s holy will. Fear of
godlessness was key in the Cold War, just as fear of fundamentalist
Muslims fuels the war on terror and fear of unusual Christian sects has
led to their deprivation of rights at Waco and elsewhere.<br>
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The worst is seen in the U.S. treatment of foreigners, blown apart in
war as if they are vermin. An important point here is the other fascist
regimes have been historically discredited, and the modern incarnations
of these nation-states don’t speak with pride about their past. Modern
Germany is not at all boastful of its National Socialist era. With
America it is different. This is the state and statist culture that
wiped out the Indians, kept blacks enslaved, dropped atoms bombs on
Japanese civilians and put their American counterparts in concentration
camps – and yet these historical injustices, however much lamented
today, do not bring into question the overall legitimacy of the
American state that boasts an uninterrupted lineage of sovereignty that
encompassed all these atrocities. The U.S. smacks of pride for its
centuries of governance, despite the many millions enslaved and crushed
under its boot. We should not be surprised that modern American
political culture continues to treat foreigners as though they are
subhuman. When Pakistani children die in U.S. drone wars, or Mexicans
die by the tens of thousands purely because of U.S. drug policy, it is
all seen as a price well worth paying – if even it is acknowledged at
all. The prevailing dichotomy that there are Americans, worthy of
rights, and there are others, totally dispensable in achieving U.S.
goals, is a construct easily befitting of national socialism.<br>
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American fascism has managed a wondrous trick, using old-fashioned
racism as well as officially defined anti-racism to shore up its power.
Washington’s Civil Rights crusade as well as inhuman disregard for "the
other" in perpetuating its totalitarian violence overseas reinforce
each other in a most nefarious way, blinding people to the danger of
mixing racial politics with total power no matter what the aim. Its
wars abroad are always for equality, democracy, humanity. Its domestic
state balloons with power to combat social strife. But from Wounded
Knee to Guantánamo, the truly disenfranchised have another story to
tell. <br>
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