12-11-2021, 11:08 PM
(12-11-2021, 02:54 PM)Anthony Wrote:(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.
For the fascists, time is of the essence: The 2020 U.S. Census revealed a country that is (rounded off to the nearest whole percentage point) 60% white, 19% Hispanic*, 13% African-American, 6% Asian, and 2% "Indigenous American" (a category that now includes Hawaiians, Samoans etc. as well as American Indians and Alaskan Natives; i.e., the people formerly known as Eskimos).
*All persons who satisfy the criteria for designation as "Hispanic" are classified as such, irrespective of their other characteristics (i.e., skin color).
The point being that by 2040, or slightly later, the white share of the U.S. population will fall below 50% - a prospect that whites in general, and older whites in particular, are nothing short of paranoid about.
This is why the fascists have to make their move certainly within the next 20 years - and quite possibly within the next 10 years.
And when they do make that move, the Second Civil War will be at hand - and the left won't give a tinker's damn who they need to collaborate with, be it Russia, China, or even Iran, thus echoing the 2T's chants of "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, NLF is gonna win" - just as the Social Gospel directly led to the New Deal, the abolitionist movement foreshadowed the Civil War, the colonial Great Awakening foreshadowed the American Revolution, the Puritan Awakening foreshadowed the Glorious Revolution (on both sides of the Atlantic), and the Reformation set the stage for the War of the Spanish Armada.
Of course, you have your categories mixed up again Anthony. The Left was shouting "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, NLF is gonna win" (and I may have joined in once or twice) because the Left was not supporting a war to install a right-wing dictator by force into a country that was artificially divided and which wanted to be free of dominance by colonial powers like France and the USA. The Left in this country today is still moderate by world standards, and does not support today's Russia, China or Iran.
The Left in the sixties indeed provided the agenda that our cold civil war turning (which may be turning hot) is to institute, if the pattern you mentioned holds. That means the Left will need to defeat the racist fascists, who are also neoliberals who label any social program that benefits the people instead of a wealthy few "socialist." That means the Left will act to restrain climate change and pollution, and the capture of wealth and power in the USA by the neoliberal oligarchs, and end the fascist right-wing attempt to destroy democracy that is now going on, as well as to restore consciousness of how racism has shaped our history, and make sure that all peoples of different races and ethnic groups have equal rights and opportunities. This is the program of The Left since the Great Awakening of the sixties, in a counter-culture and a series of social movements that together were greater than any in history.
An alliance I see developing, and which I predicted in my new book, was encouraged by a conference this week hosted by President Biden (although it included some questionable or phony "democracies"), and it is an alliance to help all the people rising up in sixties-style people-power movements all around the world to restrain or overthrow the tyrants that have taken power in the last decade or more around the world today, very similar to those of the 1930s, as well as such movements happening within the democratic countries themselves, such as in the USA, France, etc.
Will such an alliance include supplying some military or arms assistance to the people whose tyrants have monopolized access to weapons? Will allies be needed from abroad to help us overthrow Trump or other tyrant Republicans who destroy democracy here and take power? Or to help a Democratic government put down an expanded version of January 6th? I don't know, but I don't see the Left, in its attempt to restore democracy from the fascists terrified of other ethnic groups taking over the USA, turn to other tyrants in order to restore democracy here in the USA.