Where to begin with this gem?

Okay, let’s look at the three ‘causes’ of fascism first.

#1 — Identity politics don’t cause fascism, but they do create the cauldron which unites various right-wing groups into one somewhat-consistent group in opposition to the dominant left-wing regimes. How so? Pro-Muslim Immigrant has become the largest and most visible case of state-sponsored ‘Identity politics’ in Europe and look at the results.

The willfully ignoring of US Immigration laws by our Federal government as well as the creation of ‘Sanctuary Cities’ has transformed the ‘undocumented’ in the US into yet another ‘Identity’ group. By doing so, it forged the anti-immigrant crowd into a larger constituency with the anti-3rd Wave feminists and anti-Trans-Rights fringe — among others. These larger political conglomerates aren’t fascists (as in they aren’t out to overthrown the democratic process as true fascists do), but are fighting back against various left-wing programs they feel are against their groups’ interests.

The people of Europe didn’t vote to allow a multi-million person wave of Muslim & African immigrants into their countries. They voted for the officials who let this happen to them and they are within their very democratic rights to vote out those politicians who implemented those policies. That is not fascism. That is democracy in action.

I should also point out Americans aren’t cheering for the removal of ‘Mexican’ babies being taken aware of their parents. They are aware there is a child-trafficking epidemic going on right now and it falls upon the US to determine if these children are, in fact, with their parents, or someone who plans to sell them into slavery once they are deeper inside the US.

Their ‘parents’ have already proven to be criminals by entering the US in a manner they knew to be illegal. They did not avail themselves of the 9 consulates, or embassy, the US has in Mexico to start the legal immigration process after all … so taking their word for it the child with them is necessarily their offspring would be cruel and irresponsible.

With the coverage in the media, parents have to know they are risking such separation yet they are putting their family through such risk anyway. The US government is merely holding them responsible for their actions.

#2 — US politics is rather cyclic. Think about it. The same people who propelled JFK into the White House, initiating ‘Camelot’ voted for Richard Nixon (the ardent anti-Communist) two elections later. Except for the Great Depression (which trashed the reputation of the Republican Party for all of 20 years), the American voter tends to not trust either political party with complete power for too long.

Most recently, Bush II started out with a Republican Congress then gradually lost it until it was fully Democratically-controlled by the end of his tenure. President Obama faced the same problem. I’d say President Trump would face the same thing this election (the 2018 mid-terms) except it appears the Democratic Party appears to have a hard time creating a coherent message outside of being anti-Trump.

A third factor to consider is the increasing growth of the ‘Independent’ voter in US politics. As of 2016, these independents are the largest faction in the political theater. Now the parties have to either find a way to appeal outside their base, face extended outsider status, or we just might see the creation of a desperately needed effective third, or even, fourth political party.

With the European preference for coalition governments, you normally see things shifting between Center-Left and Center-Right as opposed to actual shifts to the Right, or Left. Only when their societies are under incredible stress do these majority middle-class parties shake up enough to allow extremists from one side, or the other, to achieve political dominance. Normally the ‘middle’ parties keep the extremists from exercising power by refusing to form governments with them, despite their size.

#3 — Huh? Really? Fearing being replaced by non-assimilated immigrants is rather new so I’m unsure how this is tied to fascism. Even the groups pressing harsh anti-immigrant agendas don’t want to abolish all other political parties — a true hallmark of both fascists and communists — you know, the actual political extremists.

Blaming non-primary group immigrants for high unemployment and high crime is nothing new … but neither was the impetus behind the rise of the three so-called fascist regimes — Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Falangist Spain. Those groups were all propelled to power by reactionaries to what they perceived as hard turns to the Left — the post-WWI Socialist Crisis of 1922 in Italy, the rise of the Communists in Wiemar Germany in 1932, and the militancy from both right and left leading up to the elections of 1936 in Spain.

Of course, you seem to be happy ignoring things such as the Communist and Anarchist attempts to overthrow the Spanish Republican State in 1934 — a definite catalyst for the Spanish Civil War. That uprising not only established the fears in the minds of the Middle Class, devoutly Catholic and Monarchists of a ‘Red Terror’ just around the next political corner. It was also the reason the Republic was unable to defend itself when the right-wing revolt did happen because the Republicans (those who supported the Republic of Spain as opposed to supporting a monarchy) & Socialist couldn’t trust the Anarchists and Communists. This became a prime example of the “Left eating its own”.

The fascist isn’t the prole — he’s the frustrated bourgeoisie. The one whom capitalism promised to make a capitalist — but only did it to sell him on capitalism.

Okay, that was just inane. Let’s look where fascism was the most successful — Italy and Spain — and where it was not — UK and France. Neither Italy and Spain were largely industrialized powers with a large prole voting base to be bilked by the false lure of capitalist prosperity. They were largely agricultural and heavily Catholic. Mussolini came to power thanks to the support of disgruntled Italian Army WW I veterans and his promise to end the Communist take-overs of the factories and large estates (which were owned by the actual capitalists).

Franco came to power with the support of the Spanish Army (which he was a member of) and the Catholic Church (who was staring down the barrels of a Republican government secularizing Spain thus taking over their schools and other properties). The reality various elements of the Republican government slaughtered priests and burned Church property proved those fears were real.

In contrast, France was an industrialized and secular nation while Great Britain was industrialized and Protestant. Their proles as well as their bourgeoisie were politically active and opted to not go off the rails to the Left, or the Right. They didn’t lose faith in their democratic and semi-democratic institutions, like Italy, or go into a death grapple, like Spain.

Mind you, France and the UK had fascist political and paramilitary groups. They simply never assumed power nor attempted a coup d’état … yet Mr. Haque never appears to examine these historical situations before engaging in his political fantasies.

The world has seen all this before. This was the story of Germany in the 1930s, almost exactly. A rich society which had suddenly become poor. A middle class imploding.

No, the US is not in the same, or even similar, economic, or political, situation Germany was experiencing between 1928 to 1933.

Unemployment in the US is below 2%, not above 25% like Germany. GDP is growing, not contracting. The Global economy is not collapsing, but expanding.

We are not one decade away from losing a World War which we were required to accept the complete guilt for starting.

We are not in a state where we have been forced by external powers to disband 90% of our Armed Forces creating a large body of unemployed military veterans ~people trained in and experienced with extreme violence — the breeding ground of paramilitary groups both Left and Right.

We do not have a plethora of political parties which make creating and managing governing coalitions very difficult. The US has a two-party system with a tiny number of very peripheral political parties which, at best, serve as spoilers in major elections.

A rich society has not suddenly become poor. The US Middle Class and prosperous, unionized Working Class have been under economic stress since the early 1970’s … so almost 50 years now. Industry transitioned from the Unionized Northeast and Midwest to the ‘Right-to-Work’ South. The largest private-sector union in the US has become the Service Employees International — not your traditional manufacturing-job-working proletariat.

US households went from one-income to two-income. Traditional marriage is on a slow yet steady decline meaning single-parent homes and an increased need for State intervention in child care. More and more High School graduates have headed off to college over the past 50 years while earning less and less return on that investment.

A hugely important note which hasn’t been addressed is the role of the US military in preserving the US Republic. For over 200 years the preservation of our Constitutional Republic has been one of its two primary goals (the other fighting our foreign enemies) and it hasn’t failed yet. Considering its massive size including the standing military, Reserves and National Guard, no existing paramilitary in the US could hope to withstand them.

In Nazi Germany in 1933, the SD (the Nazi’s goon squad) outnumbered the Germany Army 10:1. In Italy, the Italian military was monarchist and anti-Marxist thus not fans of the existing, pre-Mussolini regime anyway. In Spain, the military had been purged of leftists in the early 30’s so it was one of the primary movers behind the right-wing coup in 1936.

Now let us look at Germany as Hitler rose to power:

Germany went from the second largest industrial powerhouse (2nd to the US and having passed the UK) and an international power in 1914 to a economic wreck and international pariah by1933–19 years. In 1914, they had marched off to war expecting to be home by Christmas. Instead, they bled and bled for four years only to lose the war, lose 30% of their territory, all their colonies and be left to face starvation at home (due to the Allies continuing blockade) until they signed what was largely viewed as a humiliating Treaty of Versailles.

They had mass unemployment … which was a repeat of the unemployment they’d faced from 1919 to 1925 already.

They had groups of Communist and Nazi paramilitaries fighting in the streets, busting up opposition political rallies with the police appearing powerless to intervene.

By 1932, Germany was in the grips of a Global Depression … and had been since 1928 (they started earlier than the rest of the industrialized West) … so they had been facing extreme unemployment and shrinking productivity for 4 years already. The rest of the World — places Germany might have been able to sell their goods to — was in the same economic mess, so there was no help there.

The German military was a shadow of its former (Imperial) self with a pathetic navy and no air force permitted. While the military had wrangled independence from the Wiemar government in 1920 (thus free from democratic oversight), it was both physically unable and philosophically unwilling to aid the government it was supposed to protect.

So, basically the United States in the period of 2016–2018 is NOTHING like Germany between 1932–1934.

Led by a demagogue. Who made people feel strong and powerful and hopeful again. Bang! Fascism.

It is rather sad anyone would equate a person’s ability to excite a crowd through populist rhetoric would somehow lead to fascism. Both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were US Presidents with a gift for gab … and somehow the Republic survived 16 years of them — 20 if you count Bush I was a continuation of Reaganism.

You could point out there have been bad populists like Hugo Chavez … but he combined his populist talking points with re-writing his nation’s Constitution and a general persecution of all opposition political parties as well as subjecting Venezuela’s media to vast censorship and government control. But Chavez was Marxist, so I guess he doesn’t count as fascist, now does he?

See, there is no ‘Bang! Fascism.’ It requires several factors which include creating a One-Party State and media control. Trump and the Republican Party aren’t out to destroy the Democratic Party. They will survive, prosper, or fail, on their own merits. The US media is as anti-Trump as ever and no one sees Federal Agents, or members of the non-existent Trump Militia, shutting down the New York Times, Washington Post, or CNN, anytime soon.

What we are seeing is, after decades of suppression and propaganda against, Nationalism is becoming more in vogue. People are deciding it is okay to be proud of their Nation-State. They don’t want to be globalists anymore.

They are proud of their culture. They don’t see multi-culturalism being in their best interests anymore because too often multi-culturalism means the extinction of their culture to be replaced by anything else — essentially a repudiation of their very existence.

They are proud of their Democratic Republic and Constitution + all its Amendments. They know they have failed in the past, but feel they’ve learned from their mistakes and have done better. They are tired of others harping about the mistakes without acknowledging all the good they’ve also done.

They are proud to be Men. They are proud to be fathers, brothers, sons and husbands. They no longer care to hear from those others who describe all masculinity as toxic.

They are proud to be Women. They are proud to be mothers, sisters, daughters and wives. They are tired of others only being willing to standing with them as females if they first check off all the Feminist ‘Must Support’ list.

They are tired of West-hating Marxists and 3rd Wave Feminists.

None of the above makes them fascists though. It makes them aware of what you’re selling and no longer wanting to consume your spiels. They are repudiating your ideologies because they seem them as personally harmful and destructive to their ways of life. They want a society which is more free and less constrained … and that is NOT what you are selling.

Just like Fascism, Marxism is the enemy of the Individual. Always has been, shown itself countless times to be, and will always be because your kind just can’t stop your desire to control others — to dictate to those you consider ‘less educated/less enlightened’ what our lives should be like plus you have a lousy record in dealing democratically with dissent.

Have a nice day now.