Scapegoating and demonization of minorities, vulnerable people
The rise of an authoritarian leader
Who calls for total “solutions” to the “problems” of scapegoats
4. Brownshirts
5. Kristallnachts
6. Putsches
Benign Genocide is the New Totalitarianism
The argument that dictator labels apply to Trump appeals. But is binary. Us versus Trump.
There are antecedents. The latest rise of totalitarianism in the US probably peaked with the bailout. That was a global compact which continued what I call benign genocide.
Benign genocide is largely invisible.
In its racist and economic forms, it fragments into stories that have their own lives. These stories are partial and generally erroneous.
1 above has been obvious at least since the Kristallnacht which was the triumph of Mayor Daley’s blueshirts in Chicago in August 1968. Another such night was the advent of Shock and Awe.
The totality in which we now exist seems leaderless, unless you think of mandarins like Mitch McConnell as a leaders.
Benign Genocide is being modestly challenged by today’s events.
What is being called for is not so much scapegoating as the destruction of the system we have allowed to dominate, particularly during the Obama years.
President Obama offered a comprehensive notion of how to make life tolerable within the totalitarian bubble.
Today amid a parody of dictatorial gestures we are witnessing an effort to burst the bubble. This induces conniptions in the surrogates of the benign status quo. This is why Mitt Romney shills for anyone not named Trump.
The military and constabulary and prisons are today’s brownshirt servants of benign genocide. Our putsches are neo-con attacks against regimes that upset the hegemony of things.
It is all silent.
It works.
It cannot abide challenge that is serious.
I fear for Trump’s safety.
Could Trump become the tinpot dictator that is evoked here?
Well Geneva was no picnic under Calvinist rule and Donald is a Presbyterian. But I think he is more an avenging angel come to make McConnell sweat. And give Mitt nightmares.
Watch the commercials. This is what we bought when bullets lay Malcolm, Bobby and Martin low. And when Henry Kissinger was accepted into the highest reaches of the totalitarian elite.
Those of us who own stocks are complicit. That’s a majority in the US. We support benign genocide, the totalitarian world.
It may salve minds to blame Trump.
But as this goes on, we will continue to depend on the maintenance of a global military-industrial-banking system that even the most intelligent cannot understand. Obfuscation will continue to be totalitarianism’s friend. And human beings will remain problems. And reification will continue.
