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RE: What is fascism? A lot is said about it. How much do you actually know?

in #informationwar • 6 years ago

Trump is a fascist. He is a nationalist. He is more Mussolini than Hitler, though. Il Douche, one might say.

His administration arbitrarily redefined an accessory as a "machine gun" without the slightest nod to property rights, much less due process or the Constitution. He declared a national emergency to build a wall. He is now trying to actively intervene in Venezuela. His corporate cronyism is obvious, and his tariff plan is classic protectionism with no regard for economic reality.

His opponents differ little in principle though. They all want power, and just disagree in some of the details of how exercising the usurped authority should proceed.

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    1. Who cares about "Bump Stocks"?
    2. They found enough fentanyl to kill 54 million people in one drug bust at the US/Mexico border and the opposition party who is supposed to be protecting US citizens refuses to do anything to stop it. The drugs in addition to the trafficking of nameless, faceless women and children and the thousands of deaths in the desert of people attracted to the US by failed immigration policies are a humanitarian crisis and a disaster. Every single President of the last 20 years have agreed that we have a crisis at the US/Mexico border.
    3. People are eating out of garbage cans in Venezuela and the dictator is killing them by the thousands. He is rich but he doesn't care about the people. He is taking instructions from Cuba about how to oppress people. Socialism is rising in the Americas and is a national threat to the USA. YOU wouldn't want to live that way, believe me.
    4. What are your examples of corporate cronyism?
    5. Past Presidents set up the USA to be the slaves of the world. US citizens have a right to the wealth that their work produces and the government needs to make it possible for US citizens to care for themselves by protecting the diversity of our workforce. In addition, farming out industry to the aggressive Chinese and EU is a serious national security problem.
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      1. They don't do much. People who care about the slippery slope that it's precedence might set are the ones who care. Incrementalism is how the world has gotten to the state it is in. Come for something seemingly inconsequential, then come for something else. Also if you are and advocate for the Constitution the 2nd amendment clearly states "shall not be infringed".
      2. Not much to say here. I agree.
      3. Again. Not much to say. I agree.
      4. Those that are supposed to keep big pharmaceutical companies in line tend to let things through, leave the FDA, then get high paying jobs with the places they were supposed to protect from. Sometimes called the revolving door. Other examples would be Obamacare. Letting insurance companies write that law, then using it to force citizens to use the services of the same companies that wrote the law rather than giving the citizens choice. These days it is hard to find bills in Congress that do not involve corporate cronyism. Granting favors to certain corporations and possibly blocking their competitors. Another is the fact that the big pharma groups producing the vaccines that are being mandatory and forced in an increasing number of places have had all legal liability removed from them with their products. Thus, they have no incentive to improve them and reduce negative side effects. In fact, they can just keep pushing the same products over and over, and even better the people have no choice now but to take them. They then can give nice donations to political campaigns and coffers of the Politicians that help them make such things happen. Those same politicians create a Vaccine Damages Fund that is paid for by tax payer dollars and the billions in damages that are reported (about 1-2% of the actual amount) are paid for out of that fund with zero consequence to the manufacturer. Zero incentive to reduce the chance of negative side effects.
      5. If we can take care of ourselves, then we will be in a much better position to help people that ASK for our help. We shouldn't be able to FORCE our help upon people. If we cannot take care of ourselves then how can we be expected to help others?
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        1. Anyone who understands liberty needs to care about the bump stock ban because it's another arbitrary dictate that turns innocent people into "criminals" by fiat. Sich "laws" prove the illegitimacy of government by laying bare the authoritarianism behind their pretensions.

        2. The drug epidemic is bad, but the black market in drugs is 100% a consequence of drug prohibition. See point 1. We need to end arbitrary prohibitions to seriously address these problems, not impose new restrictions on travel and trade.

        3. Venezuela is a mess. Socialism is destructive. But it does not dollow that "we" (the US government) need to militarily intervene. Can you not see the absurdity in arguing that government monopolization and centralization of power is both destructive there, and beneficial here?

        4. Tariffs. Lobbyists. Banking as an industry. Regulatory capture. Subsidies. Bailouts. Sweetheart contracts. The military-industrial complex. The prison-industrial complex. The medical industry. There's a start.

        5. What are you even trying to say here? Politics is about power and wealth for the political class here first and foremost, and the US government doesn't represent or protect you or me. See point 4 above. It isn't foreign governments taxing and regulating us to death. Foreign trade isn't a threat to security. May I suggest Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt?

        If you support criminalization of innocent people, prohibitions, restrictions on travel, restrictions on trade, military adventurism, economic central planning based on nationalism, and a strong central government in general, you might be inclined toward fascism yourself.

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