11-20-2021, 06:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-20-2021, 06:10 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-20-2021, 09:07 AM)David Horn Wrote:(11-19-2021, 05:43 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: We are witnessing the emergence of a proto-fascist movement that has a categorically different disdain for democracy, multiculturalism, and the rule of law than anything we’ve seen in generations.
Please join me in this simple but essential commitment:
I am outraged by the rise of neo-fascism in America. Democracy cannot exist at the end of a gun. We must stand up to right-wing leaders who foment, glorify, and even perpetrate political violence.
It's impossible to argue that we are not in degraded times. The only question left to be answered: will fascism win? It's never possible to know the answer until it's revealed, but it's not looking good at the moment. The public just doesn't care.
I agree. The USA public does not care. At the moment. Will the moment pass, or are we now blowing and muffing our last chance to escape from fascism and banana republic(s) status? I predicted long ago that we would turn this around this decade. Well, I can't back away from my prediction just because it looks bad now. BUT, we'll see.
In other countries people are rising up against this fascism. Just about everywhere. And they are getting crushed, since people-power does not work against rulers without conscience. So, we'll see there too if the people eventually win or not.
It was rising here too-- but our pattern has been since the 90s: we rise up, and the result is to elect a Democratic Party government, and then the people quickly refuse to support it when it doesn't deliver right away because it (according to your views) is too "socialist" and too successful at getting rid of the neoliberal noose, or else too much of a failure because neo-liberal power and ideology is still great enough to block the real Democrats from doing enough.
One good thing is, at least on the government spending side, congress has approved more spending for the needs of the people and society, even since late March 2020, than ever before; a partial rebuke to neoliberal trickle-down. But the other side of this revocation of trickle-down fascism needs to begin when the Senate passes some version of BBBBB; including raising taxes on the rich to pay for it. It also need to bypass the filibuster to pass voting rights. I don't know if or when these things will happen.
The movement against racism that ballooned in June 2020 with the cop killing of George Floyd, has been overwhelmed by a pro-racist movement in October/November 2021 against "critical race theory" and support for a coup, for police, and for police and vigilante killings. So, we may be headed for the race war that the Republican fascists and racist-murderers want.