Notes on American Fascism II
There are two kinds of worlds: those shaped by $ and those shaped by the heart. This is political philosophy in essence. This is the duality that political inquiry uncovers. $ or the human heart. An American political philosophy then, in turn, asks a further, more specific question: how has Americanism deceived itself — convinced itself that it is of the heart rather than the $ sign? And why? Why has America self-fashioned as a Christian nation, when it is, in fact, an anti-Christian nation: conditioned to hate the poor, the meek, the powerless? The American right is simply Americanism taken to its logical extreme: the hatred of those who symbolize the ignominy of the $ sign — those who lack it. What unites the Trump and Ryan (the usual alliance of emperors and opportunists) factions is this, this instinctual hate-lust of the poverty-Other . Christian love pulled inside out.
