08-09-2020, 01:32 AM
(11-18-2019, 12:25 AM)Teejay Wrote:(11-12-2019, 11:23 AM)David Horn Wrote:(11-12-2019, 12:07 AM)Teejay Wrote:(11-11-2019, 11:06 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Western Christian Civilization had a huge problem with white supremacists in the last Crisis Era -- literal Nazis. For a short time in the 1920's (which was before the Crisis) many Americans had a dalliance with the KKK.
However the English speaking countries, did not have much an experience of fascism not to mention authoritarianism during the last Crisis. However in this one we are certainly getting an experience of what Fascism was like, with Authoritarian Nationalists, already Britain, America and Australia have strongman authoritarian nationalist leaders.
And not surprising, all three have dominant press presence by the Murdock Clan. This may be the time that freedom of the press gets targeted for incubating the crises in all three, but to what end I can't say. Let's hope that neo-sedition acts don't pop up to "correct the imbalance between governance and press freedom".
Rupert Murdoch is the Alfred Hugenberg (of) our saeculum, Murdoh has been instrumental to allowing neo-nationalism to be normalised in Australian political discourse, not to mentioning playing an important role in the rise of the Brexit, Tea Party and MAGA movements.
It is notable in both Canada and New Zealand, where News Corporation does not have significant presence in the media, that strongman authoritarian leaders or neo-nationalist parties have not been elected in government.
The heroes of this Saeculum in America could be the Model Minorities. Such people know how shaky their position is (just think of the definitive Model Minority, German Jews). Donald Trump offends them. I associate much of our problem of racism and religious bigotry with people who have little impulse control. I once suggested to someone that the people who use the N-word heavily often have a great proclivity to use the F-word.
Minorities rarely have things easy. They are invisible when they do good and all-too-visible when they do bad. When they do better than the majority they are often accused of devious conspiracies to exploit and dispossess the rest of humanity. If they operate a store, then maybe the goods are on consignment and the store is rented. Burn it down, and the landlord and the providers of the goods on consignment (or their insurer) gets burned financially. If you envy the Jews, then imitate them. Quit boozing and whoring; start a business instead of seeking a job that gives you just enough to keep you alive working for people who promise you that you have a great future... you can't eat promises; dedicate yourself to learning so that you can excel. Separation of powers, due process of the law, and checks and balances may not be so important to the majority as they are to people who could become pariahs easily.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.