Descend into Fascism
Opening eyes about an inflamed USA sinking into the shits.
I wrote this march 2018. Since then things only got much worse (as predicted). And 2020 is for one note not even edited in. But you’ll find it blatantly describes the under currents that make up the current mess. Racism might not be mentioned as much, but it’s clearly one of the main poisons in the recipe.
Now, 2021, many think with Biden the danger is over. Not so. The USA is still sinking deeper into fascist police state territory, I fear. Stay awake.
Here is the 2024 psychological follow up article, the Belly of the Beast; the real face of fascism.
“The really dangerous American fascist.. claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. ~Henry A. Wallace, quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944
The Self Defeating Aspects of Self Enriching Elites.
People, the bad news is, the troubles in the USA will be getting worse, probably much worse. Why am I sure the suppression will continue to grow? Because of its internal logic. The steps and paradigms that drive the current elite, can only lead to steps deeper and deeper into the dark. And logical conclusion stapled upon logical conclusion leads to madness. And the madness is in no way even close to healing itself. Because they are blind. The wisdom, the care, the love for anything other than self-interest seems to be missing. The ‘if we all take care of individual selves things will work out’ is one of the biggest lies of capitalism. It broke down families, healthcare, education and so much more, just to sell more glittery waste to individuals. For profits.
Edit June 2018: Friends from the USA tell me despair increases. So many big and little things get worse. Foremost in the news: children ripped away from their parents. Their parents disappearing without trial in the corporate prison system. And the government lying in many forms why this is ‘reasonable’.
Edit June 2019: Concentration camps on the Southern border. Trump can’t (thus far) be removed because of the letter of the law, while the wrath of the law rules applies to more and more colored people making a wrong move.
Edit October 2019: Trump threatens with civil war if impeached and militia’s message they will follow him if he calls for them.
And there we are 2020, Trump wants to military to stamp on protestors who suffered, and suffered, and suffered and still thinks might makes right.
And why do I care as European? I was raised being grateful for being liberated by a country with the highest values. The Marshall Plan saved Europe, and changed Germany into the awesome country it is now. Yet lack of the Marshall plan for the poor of the USA itself , and on top of that the new Imperialistic ways of the USA is killing the lights. Any Hollywood movie with a hero uttering the words “saving the free world.” has become a sham and propaganda. And that hurts. And it hurts the planet. The maniacal surge of corporations for protecting investments over environment and growth in power over social justice is killing the planet as a whole. Really killing it. And it’s not even daily news. So what happens in the USA, will effect the planet.
So how does this country sink towards fascism?
How come they self destruct the environment and self justify all steps on that road as logical, and necessary? How come the whole complex political system called USA has become an inflamed? I’m not claiming a conscious conspiracy here. I claim pinball decision-making stacking one self interested step onto another over the edge into the abyss. Here’s how it works (in the rough).
TOWARDS FASCIST POLICE STATE OR A REVOLUTION?
All thinking of the current elite is based upon power politics as chessboard. When it’s a ‘us vs them’ power game then: Everything that may take power away must be seen as an attack! And everything you can get away with to increase it, as a smart move! All the while still having some real people (people who actually care, or want to improve things according to their more or less flawed ideas, let alone have some ethics left) around, you must act carefully. But then logical step after logical step you sink in the mud hole of your own undoing all the time thinking you are winning, as the unscrupulous bankers in 2007 did. “Yes, we got our mortgages sold (in 2007)” has become “Yes, we got our tax plan realized! (end 2017)”
THE DANGER OR TAKING ‘LOGICAL’ NEXT STEPS
Slowly an elite has risen; those who are best at enriching themselves at the cost of others. That is how it always has worked throughout history. What once sounded as noble intentions (Kennedy: “We’re the free world.”) became empty words (Bush: “We protect our interests.”) And now became pure lies. (Trump: “If we give all your tax money to the very rich, it’ll make you richer in the end.”) Thus when you, as this elite, get away with so much, you find that stealing from the poor has become your earning model.
To keep the poor voting for you, or in many cases, stop them from voting, you must come up with new scams every election anew, like the “Red Scare”, “Fear the immigrants, fear the terrorists, fear LGBT, fear abortions, fear the blacks, etc”. You must apply blacklisting, gerrymandering, limiting voting stations, making registering as voter much harder, rigging elections, etc. The poor pay the taxes and much of those taxes go into the pockets of the rich, like with billions of dollars in arms contracts, of which a nice chunk is used to lobby for ever more. But as people become poorer overall they start to protest. Like teachers do now. They lost about $1500 a year in buying power since 2002, not even counting added costs of more expensive insurances. Thus you need to impoverish them so far in the shits, that they become tied to their jobs. like medieval serfs. For that way they’ll have no choice left, but to play along with your demands, as keeping a job is the only safety left for those who are still aboard your system. The only reason other professions don’t protests now is because they mostly are already robbed blind, for lack of unions and need of staying in their job. Mind you many homeless people have jobs, and still can’t afford a house. Is that in your news?
Welcome prison system..
The USA has with 4% of the global population, 22% of the global prison population. Let that sink in.
But with many poor, and people dropping out, problems grow. For example crimes (out of desperation) might increase. Yet there’s opportunity in that as well: it makes it more acceptable when you start incarcerating a lot of people, like millions! Preferably lock up people of color and make any appeal for justice a terrible long administrative process full of obstacles. The system claims to be fair, it’s designed to suppress. Meanwhile the new slaves, eh prisoners, or better call them criminals work for corporate interests. Thus the prison system grows, which, smart as the elite are, is also another earn model. Meanwhile more privatized prisoners means more damaged people and more control needed, and at the same time many ‘normal’ people lose jobs to this prison system. How to make them not notice they are robbed? Put the blame elsewhere (illegal immigrants!) and make sure the media don’t ask too many questions. Or show car chases on tv, meaning: “This’ll happen to you when you don’t behave!” Even Police shooting reports may add to the threats.
WHEN HOLLOWING OUT EDUCATION MAKES SENSE..
Because of all these steps, education needs to be weakened, so less people ask troubling questions. You need believers (“Climate Change does not exist”), not critical thinkers. Logical step onto logical step into the mud. Because now when education is weakened, then the whole is weakened, because initiative and innovation within the country have been weakened and many people lost buying power. That damages income also for the rich overall. What isn’t being made at home, must be made elsewhere. For instance like through expanding hugely the amount of robbing natural resources elsewhere. (Check out the history of CIA meddling in the politics of many countries, even allies when it’s needed) And for this patriotism and armed programs are needed. And you’ll need more excuses to invade, read create real terrorists as reason to attack.
Rise of terrorism.. That can be done, by either portraying people who defend their homes as such, or smuggle a few crazies with a grudge some guns. Which leads to more violence around the world. And that means more enemies for your country around the world. And that means increased fear of foreigners and increased need of control and protection. You’ll understand how the NRA, Intelligence agencies and arms industry don’t mind this. It improves sales, to individuals, and to the government, for which the poor pay taxes. I mean robbing millions of a few dollars per person is still millions made, ain’t it? You may need to spice up the propaganda needed to misinform the people. You want them to be fearful, be asleep, or even better, become proud soldiers for the regime. “Honor our troops! (…and let traumatized veterans die in the streets.)”
edit 2019: ..and find an enemy to attack, like Iran, on orders of the Saudi’s??
WHEN FLAWED WORLD VIEWS RULE..
Meanwhile slowly people who have risen through the ranks, having been fed on propaganda for decades, come into power. These badly educated misinformed upstarts, often from very rich families, have warped ideas of reality. Just watch Betsy deVos and her ilk. And the poor believers support these crazies; believers who have learned to scream “Stalin!”, at even the mention of words like ‘socialism’ or ‘union’. Believers completely blind to the enormous amount of nuances between the one and the other. The elites can fully trust such believers will never Google the relationship between social democracy and the best free healthcare and education in the world (search it, the USA is not even close to being first on that list globally). The believers live in a dream of the ‘best country in the world, of which all others are jealous’.
Dumbing down at the top is logical too. And thus supported by their blind believers (real or out of fear for losing the last well paying job in town) these dimwitted kids, read cronies of the system, will make choices based upon their beliefs. And they learned at school, climbing the corporate ladder equals success, which happens when you do what you’v been told what to do. Read almost medieval serfs, all afraid to lose their job. To keep enough believers on their side, all lies must be defended, even when they start to hurt the regime. Check, or wonder about, how many dimwitted politicians you have in way too high ranks. How did they get there?
Wtf! Media!? And as European, I wonder why are these self inflated idiots at the top being questioned with such reverence by the journalists? Why not hard fact check their statements on the spot? You have ear pieces anyway, use them! Trump should be called on any lie on the spot, not just filmed gloating about himself. That doesn’t stop Trump. That doesn’t worry the elite behind him. It’s a huge self deluded self protecting bubble inflating itself as the logical truth to follow. Does that sound weird? It is! But the bubble is quite crazy in horrible and destructive ways. And I understand, either you follow orders or you get fired. But then, where is the free press? Freedom of press?
Perhaps better that all press voluntary pushes the limit and get thrown out. Then the face of fascism is clear. Now the major players play along for access to the WH press meetings, playing sort of critical, but never upsetting the rot at the core. And that means the press is actually condoning the evil and thus part of it.
POLICE STATE A COMING…
And as the regime becomes more corrupted and warped, resistance will grow, thus the police state needs to become more intrusive towards their own people and find more ways to keep people down. Intelligence agencies expand and increase checking out their own people (read liberal whites). They learned how to keep the black community down, so now that must be expanded with the lessons learned to all those who speak up or out.
edit: early 2019 almost as predicted: state of emergency reigns. That was ended, but the threat is there, as militia’s tweeted in Oct. they’re ready for their ‘leader’. Also 2 young women may get up to 110 years of prison for actions to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, read hinder corporate profits that pollute the planet. (2020) Meanwhile right wingers can walk armed into government buildings to threaten their governor without any hinder or consequences.
Birth of Alt-Right. With many whites however there’s another trick to keep them from speaking up or out. Blacks you criminalize. Whites must think that protests towards the elite are an attack on the country as a whole, thus against them. And those who are to blame must be easily identifiable, like blacks, immigrants, Muslims, Russians, you name them. Logic stapled onto logic makes renewed white supremacy a great idea too. Now you can make it sound logical that all the whites must defend themselves. Alt-right is (re)born as a marketed, branded solution for poor white people, thanks to financial lobbies from warped robber Barons such as the Mercer family. “Yes, dear whites, wanna be safe? Then either be an ignorant snowflake or libtard (read traitor), or play along with the elite. Now buy more guns.”
RISE OF FASCISM LOOKING LIKE PATRIOTISM
And so it happens that those who do play along, slowly become fascists for self-justifying robbers. Just like in Ancient Rome, the loyal followers get paid top-down for loyal support in money schemes that show little reality with what is being paid for what. “Please me enough and you’ll get money for free.” Just check Tomi Lahren juggling pleasing donors and some last own opinions. You may call it corruption, but since it’s been made legal, you can’t stop it. And because of their crimes, these cronies will willingly commit to lying to themselves and all other people. Hell, they will defend their position even stronger for fear of what might happen when the card house tumbles down.
Note 2020, Corona. Early in the crisis the GOP withdrew to discuss the crisis. Normal people would expect to discuss how to help solve the crisis. No, it was to frame their talking points. Talking points are poisonous propaganda used to steer general opinions, or at the least keep a large enough part of the population in angst for colored people, uprisings, socialism, immigrants, etc.
When becomes self protection fascism? Day by day the actions of the super rich steer more towards real forms of Nazism. These barbaric WWII instigators, with a masterfully branded fake ideals, were in the end, mostly brazen thieves. Their so-called leaders stole art and gold all around Europe. They for sure didn’t live any of the ideals they claimed to have. And they so feared losing it all, they’d rather have their whole empire sink, than admit their own wrongs and change their ways. Exactly that is the kind of maniacal thievery that runs the White House today. Trump’s rants hint at the similar psyche.
The power of money. Fewer and fewer billionaires (3 individuals now own more than the bottom 50% of the whole United Sates) have almost unlimited funds to more and more openly buy politicians left and right. Thus saying, “Want a career, better work for us!” And all who play along with them for job security or believe in the ‘moral right’ by their side is a deluded crony. Social activists, grassroots organizations, real progressives, many millennials, with what meager funds they have, do what they can. They have solutions, they innovate, they gather and share options and actions. But sadly the logic of the top says: move against them. “But move carefully, for many are white and we don’t want our ‘Us whites should rule’ story spoiled. better they hardly notice.” The elite may even steal the best tricks of the bottom up movement for its own. And for that you need intelligence.
ANY HOPE FOR CHECK AND BALANCES?
Can we expect help from those that might do something at the top within? No. Because of the huge paradigm that rules: politics is a chess game and any move that gives you the advantage is okay.
Thus we see the CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies move pawns into positions to keep the web tight. Even social grassroots movements, spreading great solutions, as ‘house the homeless’ or ‘free education for all’ are suspected of possible danger. But then who do the intelligence agencies serve? Many agents may believe they serve their country, but their leaders may be bought by billionaires, may be thieves, paranoid idiots, or fanatical patriots who get away with torture and murder to further American interests. Yes, read the super-rich. The USA is in so many ways rotten, rigged, hollowed out, corrupted, that I have little hope that nice players like Bernie have any chance of winning an election. Which is sad, because as anger and resentment grows the next populist leader may be an equal maniac compared to Trump and have heads roll, while the oceans die, and fires rage in the West and storms in the South East*.
CLOSER TO COLLAPSE OR OPENLY DICTATORIAL RULE?
Then when everything has become fragile, because of all these stacks of lies, every little thing can become the last straw that helps tumble the power. Thus you must overreact on dangerous straws to keep on top. Then, on your Alt-Right chessboard, a Black who gets successful is an actual attack on your position. Then when Keapernick points out an important problem, he attacks your position. It would have been so much easier if the Republicans would have agreed, “Yes all lives matter, and thus Blacks too and they need help. Let’s help solve this.” Now that would have been popular and effective. But nooo, admitting Black lives matter seems to be limiting power of the elite (chessboard thinking). And we may soon need the police to stop all new protests happening. Luckily it’s easy to film some over the top angry Black outbursts, so that slows that movement. But then many normal whites react as well. Thus you must paint whites who agree with Colin Keapernick as traitors too. And their voices better be blocked out in the media as much as you can…
Then this school shooting (Florida) happened. (2018) Hoorah that takes the attention away. Oh shit, was it a White dude? What could be worse? Oh, fuck: this time the victims speak out and send the NRA in panic back to their think tanks. There they must not really solve the issue, they must protect interests. In their tank they wonder about how to blame the victims, or protect them better with more guns. Guns must be the answer, because the industries that pay them, want to increase sales. Thus some incredible stupid voices appear that attack some of the school kids on their looks, possible LBGT background, etc. This then works counterproductive, so now better suppress the whole story in the media, unless Trump spoils it with some thinking all by himself.
Oh Trump.. “Damn how much longer do we keep this ‘drama queen’ in the Oval Office on our chessboard?” They must be wondering exactly that in many backrooms. But for now, he takes the flack, the flack all the backroom lobbies and billionaires paying them actually should get. Oh no, think: “Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, North Korea, Russia… and don’t mention Jemen anywhere.” (2020, think Antifa = terrorists and blacks are looters)
CONCLUSIONS
Thus the elite live more and more in a fragile bubble (of their own making), playing chess in a dashboard reality. They are worried by the reality of climate change, but haven chosen to treat it as not real. Thus for this reason, and many others, more and more worried people lose trust in these ‘leaders’. And now the elites wonder why real progressives have started to win elections.
As I predicted when I started writing this, more is to come. New logical step for the elite in this cycle (late march 2018). When your election scams get rolled up, fight those doing so. And thus justice is hollowed out even more. And the road downhill continues..faster and faster. (edit:) I hardly posted this article and this comes in as well: CIA cronies posing as candidates in election.
It’s time to tell them what economy should do! It’s time to bring change or shift, in a way we can and want it, or it’ll change by some force you don’t want.
(edit fall 2019) The USA is becoming daily more clearly a dictatorship of corporate interests, suppressing its people with lies, propaganda, vile private prison system, decaying infrastructure and education, institutional racism, many cases of piracy by corporations and still the people seem to think voting for Bernie may solve all of that. And while Trump riles up the 2nd amendment people to use their guns on those that oppose ‘the wisest man in the universe’, I think, like #extinctionrebellion is doing now across the world, the USA needs it’s own nationwide call for end of money in politics, end of billionaire power, end of corruption, end of private prisons, end of laws that protect corporations, call for a new green deal, call for justice, call for massive pardons, etc. The longer the US citizens wait with a nationwide action to get their democracy back, the deeper and longer the tunnel they’ll have to live through and the world with them.
Behave with integrity. Thus standing up now is the sane thing to do, yet make sure you don’t behave like the hurt little kid, who wants revenge and will make other pay. You’ll certainly be smeared, and either may get killed or corrupted too. And you may end up being no different. You may end up a victorious robber too, who starts this whole pattern of corruption again, probably bloodier… So only revolt with very high(!) principles and integrity and work towards solutions that fit everyone. Check out Nelson Mandela and Gandhi, rather than Che Guevara or Lenin!
Media propagandist or Journalist? And media people, do take a risk. It what country do you want your children to live? In gated communities, surrounded by body guards? With oil and lead in their water? Tell the real truth, the whole truth, they can’t fire all of you. And remember, when a regime topples, the biggest cronies go down too. That’s how it always went.
This is also a clip that every journalist and news watcher should see. It helps to break free of fake news, or understand better how you’ve been had.
And on the very very slim change an open minded elitist reads this, read what the top1% can learn from the Dutch. How to do that? And for yourself?
The bubble will burst.
It must be evident you can’t keep that bubble form bursting. I’ve been saying I’ll see the end of the USA in my life time. Once a dreaded idea, now slowly becomes a hope. Imagine that too, how the USA must have fucked up to turn me from a fan into someone thinking he is watching a descend into a Star Wars Empire. But what will burst it? Will it be the poor raising their hands and pitchforks as many wealthy people fear? Or their own arrogance that bursts the dam? Will it be a civil war between left and right, a total fake opposition created by fake logic. Will it be a war that escalates, while no one, except some madmen, want it for real? Will it be an enormous economical or even far worse an environmental ecological collapse? The last one is already happening since decades, yet speeding up more and more. It is a given. The time to react is very very short.
There is still time left to heal the planet. If only some dinosaur rich families, would step from their bubble and look at the truth. Their wealth could regenerate our ecological and environmental reality, to create safe social conditions around the planet. They are crooks; they could be heroes, but not by donating tax-friendly handouts. They need to invest and surrender their wealth for the whole. The bubble will burst. It is bursting!
I deeply prefer a Gentle Revolution. A revolution where oil and arms are out, capitalism that destroys nature is a crime, where the millions that work very hard to keep the planet and societies healthy get rewarded, supported and their solutions get implemented. That’s what I work for**.
*) Yes, twice the same link. That news warrants action from everyone!
**) For all the conspiracy nut cases out there: George Soros still hasn’t written me a big check. The Russians though… I’ve lately had friend requests on facebook from beautiful young Russian girls, with no friends in the world at all. Come on. Be real! Many people think about these issues. For me this is thinking about what’s good for the planet as a whole, is good for all, is good for me.
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Check here to understand the bigger picture better. I’ve thus far talked about how psychology of people influences politics, how biological traits make us do stupid things for the wrong reasons, how convictions frame our minds, how deluded paradigms in economics damage everyone. It’s a complex mess and no simple conspiracy theory can help with that. We need to train ourselves to higher, better, more holistic ways of thinking. Include systems thinking as much as body work and develop healthy love relationships with nature. And we might look better at concepts that help with liberation. Check here if you want more facts first, but it won’t be a fun read.
Check here to see what you can do. And that acting can be meaningful fun, have you meet great people around the globe and feel rich without money than many super rich with. ;)
Here again is the 2024 psychological follow up article, the Belly of the Beast; the real face of fascism. It has some overlap, mentioned some things sharper, more essential and consider why many tricks to stop Maga work counter productive.
