What Part of National Socialism Do YOU Disagree with…
What Part of National Socialism Do YOU Disagree with…
With our privileged FCC broadcasters, legacy newspaper barons and other anointed members of “mainstream” culture spitting mad about their failure to defeat Donald Trump on Nov. 5, they are now coalescing around a new message. Without the slightest hint of irony or shame, our elite media and their pals in Hollywood and subsidized schools are trying to shock us with the News Flash… Trump is a Fascist!
And their hysterical messaging seems to be gaining in both volume and traction, at least among their disgruntled urban shock troops. With Democrats now desperate to hold onto the power they’ve usurped over the last 90 years, I don’t think they’ll abandon this manufactured crisis anytime soon. At least not without better push-back from their opponents.
And the partisan attacks are working. FCC guardians at ABC News say that polls show “half of Americans see Donald Trump as a fascist.” And Trump 2.0 hasn’t even taken office yet. (According to this narrative, decentralizing power from Federal control to State oversight is simultaneously extreme National Socialism and also pure anarchy of deleting “Entire Government Agencies.” The anti-Trump propaganda is already that unhinged.)
For today, I’ll put aside the claims of “anarchy” and “threat to democracy,” as both charges are specious on multiple levels. Instead, I will focus on the allegations of the Trump administration being a revival of widespread National Socialism, which was once understood to be the root of fascism.
The three big problems with the “fascist” narrative begin with what should be obvious, but has been obscured by so much public disinformation. Namely, our ruling elites—particularly top Democrats, most corporate leaders, and also many Republicans—support National (or Global) Socialism on literally everything from Agriculture to Energy and Healthcare to Wage Controls—and over a dozen other areas affecting daily American life. For today, I’ve selected 20 major areas, which I’ll be analyzing in a moment.
And our ruling elites have done so since at least the 1960s in most cases, or the 1930s for New Deal Democrats. For the most part, we’re dealing with doctrinaire 20-for-20 Super Nazis projecting their extremism onto other people (Trump and his supporters) that are much less fascistic than any presidential leadership team since at least the 1980s or arguably the 1920s. That alone is incredible.
Actually, it is Trump’s pro-community/anti-fascist approach on free speech, education, racial revenge, gun ownership, abortion, climate crisis (and unfortunately not much else) that has imperial Washington so enraged. In particular, it’s the censors, indoctrinators, race-baiters, gun-grabbers, abortionists and eco-puritans who despise Trump the most.
Regrettably, some unstable victims of government schooling, possibly bad parenting and other poor influences buy into that TDS garbage. There are now millions of people languishing in this angry and confused category. And America’s insane media establishment is once again fanning the flames of “protest”—trying to overturn the election (as they accomplished against Nixon in 1974) or possibly incite violent uprisings as they successfully did in both the 1930s with nationalized unions and the 1960s with hundreds of race riots (both uprisings are discussed here in comparison to the minor disturbance of January 6).
Worse yet, in most cases people triggered by (bogus) claims that Trump is a Fascist are useful dupes for advancing (real) totalitarianism. It’s precisely these ignorant types—and their media megaphones—that make any sensible reforms so difficult. And that is tragic for everyone.
If American education was not so thoroughly corrupted and its legions of subsidized religious professionals weren’t so conflicted by political favoritism, most of this hypocrisy would be readily apparent by now. Since that is dramatically not the case, I’ll elaborate a bit.
Just How Much Federal Involvement Do We Need on a Daily Basis?
After FDR’s attacks on independent journalism in the 1930s (IRS and NRA harassment of publishers Will Hearst and Robert McCormick, open censorship of radio sensation Charles Coughlin and many others) the American media landscape was left almost entirely to New Deal supporters like NBC, CBS and some establishment magazines and newspapers they favored. And their “reporting” has consistently advocated for more centralization of power in Washington, relentless marginalization of small-government attitudes, hostile treatment of private institutions, and endless excuses when central planning fails to deliver as promised.
Since the 1930s, the concentration of power in Washington has steadily marched forward, never retreating, and only rarely resting for a pause in growth—as we arguably witnessed in the early 1980s and Trump’s first term. As noted in a previous essay from September (see prior link):
With independent voices either cancelled entirely or heavily marginalized from 1942 until the rise of internet publishing in the 1990s, American culture now stands highly influenced by authoritarian attitudes on all meaningful aspects of daily life.
The federal interference—always substantial, usually without a fig leaf of Constitutional cover—is now so great that it encompasses practically every meaningful decision of our every waking moment. (Unless, I suppose, you’re an oblivious sports fanatic or someone who still watches network TV—which sadly includes about half of America.) For the other half of our fellow countrymen who are a bit more in touch with reality, I’ll list some major examples of modern federal reach:
Of course, politicians are masters of escape and will deny being for Big Government or any type of “socialism”—state, national or international. To avoid squabbling over what threshold must be crossed before state and federal involvement officially becomes “totalitarian,” I’ll settle for the basic question: Is there any aspect of life where humans can function without (usually major) interference from politicians and bureaucrats?
If most elected Democrats and Republicans are being honest, the simple answer to the above question would be: “No.” That is to say, the overwhelming majority of government officials support at least 18 of the 20 major elements of social and economic fascism. That would be at least 90% coverage, by this broad list of categories. And that’s not what any honest person should call “liberal” or “conservative.”
Unfortunately, after decades of lies and misinformation being fed to the U.S. body politic, millions of regular Americans—based on voting patterns and other data—are also comfortable with this high level of government interference. By now, tens of millions of Americans are addicted to state and federal programs for education, healthcare, food, housing, retirement and much more. Many people seem to think there literally is no alternative.
But there are alternatives in all of those areas, often easy ones, even if we have to look before the 1930s in many cases. In a few cases, we must venture back to the 1780s, before our Revolutionary Radicals tore up the Articles of Confederation and imposed their bold new experiment in “strong” central government.
In other words, European immigrants to early America thrived for nearly two centuries with almost none of that smothering national “safety blanket.” Such levels of personal freedom and community cooperation are hard to imagine now, with state and federal demagogues pandering to their pet factions at every opportunity. But Americans did enjoy growth, freedom and prosperity from the early 1600s to the 1770s without federal authorities micro-managing their daily activities. Today is very different.
Major Party Support for National (or Global) Socialism as of 2024: Items 1 to 10
“+” denotes significantly greater support for centralized power in a given area
| # | Topic | Federal Control? | Details of Federal Control | |
| Team Trump | Team Harris | |||
| 1 | Agriculture | Yes+ | Yes | From the $200+ billion USDA budget to tax-favored hording of land, massive wasting of water and mindboggling ecological assaults, “small government” types lose credibility for selectively attacking urban welfare while pandering to white “family farmers.” Ex-farmer and policy guru David Stockman correctly calls subsidized farming “the political axis on which much of the modern welfare state was built.” Libertarian icon James Bovard is more devasting in his book Farm Fiasco. Both parties in Washington are too gutless to curb these mammoth abuses. Although lazy white farmers owned over 99% of slaves in America, even black supremacists are reluctant to say “farming” and “slavery” in the same sentence. Why is that? |
| 2 | Banking | Yes | Yes | Charter privileges for fiat money creators encourage endless cycles of inflation, boom, and bust… then feasting on the carnage—as bankers have done for centuries, with now over $100 trillion in total U.S. debt. Federal rules give customers a false sense of security and limit entry into this corrupt party (1934 FDIC, 1977 CRA, 2010 Dodd-Frank, etc.). Our left/right uniparty loves Debt Dealers for funding their social engineering and global warfare. Federal interference actually thwarts reasonable state regulation of basic “weights and measures” of banks’ gold and silver holdings (much like states effectively do at every gas station in the country). No need for anarchy here; or D.C. bungling. |
| 3 | Broadcasting | Yes | Yes+ | Federal Radio Act of 1927 and FCC birth in 1934 created a corporate cartel that excludes over 99.99% of Americans from broadcasting. Yet the freedom of Big Media to slander opposing politicians is almost unlimited as we’re witnessing again with organized smear campaigns against Trump’s cabinet nominees. Since the 1930s, Democrats in particular have been using FCC powers to purge their press enemies. By 1942, with war fever gripping the nation, independent journalists were either silenced entirely or bullied into submission. Truman’s FCC Speech Police tightened their grip in 1949, imposing the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ that mandated “both sides” (big gov’t and huge gov’t) of “controversial” topics be trotted out for virtuous signaling. Reagan’s termination of that contrivance in 1987 breathed (minimal) life into Talk Radio, something Democrats are still furious about. Even with the internet now challenging total cartel dominance, U.S. media is still corrupted by powerful legacy influences. |
| 4 | Corporate Welfare | Yes | Yes | Monopoly “patents” and eternal “copyright” privileges allow corporations, Hollywood and mass media to consolidate power. Those policies also encourage absentee ownership by far-away elites. As nearly all innovation comes from individuals and small companies, the lawfare scheme of “owning an idea” usually benefits giant companies with huge legal departments to help them *steal* those ideas and surround their fiefdoms with “monopoly moats.” See the “Sidebar” on Monopoly Patents for a short analysis of this important topic that bribe-based media pundits and corporate-funded university scholars won’t touch. |
| 5 | Drug Prohibition | Yes | Yes | Both parties support federal powers to harass (certain) drug users; neither side bothers to obtain a Constitutional amendment as the 1920s Prohibitionists did. The “War on Drugs” has devastated urban America, with non-violent drug offenses often ending a person’s hope for future employment. Wikipedia says “In 2021, over five million people were under supervision by the criminal justice system, with nearly two million people incarcerated in state or federal prisons and local jails. … Drug offenses account for the incarceration of about 1 in 5 people in U.S. prisons.” Meanwhile, deaths from legal drugs continue to soar. Historically, both parties have been equally terrible here. |
| 6 | Education | No? | Yes+ | For over two centuries, American education was entirely funded by parents, communities and businesses (mentoring). In 2022, total government spending to indoctrinate children stood at $1.9 trillion, including $692 billion from the feds. Federal intrusion into college started during the Civil War and increased during both World Wars. Federal involvement in K-12 education took off in 1965 and never looked back. None of that complies with our Constitution. Trump now says he’ll get the feds out of the classroom. We’ll see if he’s serious. |
| 7 | Energy | Yes | Yes+ | The U.S. Dept of Energy (started in 1977) now boasts 14,000 federal staffers, 93,000 contractors (as of 2008) and a dazzling org chart. Politicizing this major industry has yielded empty promises that fusion power is “just around the corner,” pushed unreliable wind/solar, and halted the construction of new coal or nuclear plants. From 2011 to 2023, the number of U.S. coal power plants has plummeted from 589 to 227. New nuclear power plants have been anemic since the 1990s. The Democrats’ scorched earth crusade against “man-made global warming” give them the “+” here. |
| 8 | Environment | Maybe | Yes+ | Since 1970, Washington has nationalized its control of all local air, land and water pollution, demonizing productive industry along the way. Thousands of arbitrary rules and self-incrimination are imposed on the private sector. Global “climate” hysteria is seeking trillions in tribute. Yet broad exemptions are given to subsidized farmers and gov’t sewage dumpers who create enormous messes (fish kills, beach closures, aquatic dead zones, etc.). Modern Greens are more anti-industry than anti-pollution… and it’s not even close. |
| 9 | Gun Ownership | No? | Yes+ | Democrats openly support greater restrictions on private gun ownership. Federal ATF agents aggressively work to deny Americans access to self-defense. Remember Waco? Trump is now claiming he will dismantle this abusive federal agency. Gun grabbers have turned cities into violent cesspools. Will they ever learn? Single-issue gun zealots who passively support most National Socialism are also part of the problem. |
| 10 | Highways | Yes | Yes | Congress in 1956 used the military excuse of a ‘National Interstate and Defense Highways Act’ to invent a role in building the Interstate Highway system. They explicitly copied another fascist nation praised for its “superlative system of German autobahn.” This $600 billion gift of “free roads” to the automotive industry, trucking firms and their union workers would soon allow big box conglomerates (Kmart, Walmart, now Amazon) to decimate thousands of local companies and kill millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs—an enormous price to pay for faster interstate travel. It’s rarely mentioned that all of that could have been done privately (e.g., the Peace Bridge over Niagara River, the Ambassador Bridge at Detroit, the Great Northern Railway, thousands of miles of U.S. tollways, etc.). People often make the wrong choice here. When faced with the reality of corrupt state governments botching their highway systems, do we push for more freedom (privately run roads) or more centralization? Pro-gov’t types reflectively choose the latter. Liberals at Vox make some good points on why that was a mistake. |
Intermission: A few takeaways so far
After only 10 examples of extensive (and usually illegal) federal involvement on local or private affairs, a few trends are already starting to come into focus. First of all, the rise of totalitarian ideology is not exclusive to either major party, even if modern Democrats are more flamboyant in their collectivist fervor.
Before Trump arrived at Washington in January 2017, establishment Republicans were every bit as fascistic as their Democrat sparring partners on nearly all the topics of this list. Until very recently, the GOP was dominated by pro-war fanatics like Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley, the war criminals of the Bush clan and the incorrigibles of AM talk radio.
Let’s not forgot that Congressional Republicans unanimously supported the Military Enabling Act of September 2001, signed by George W. Bush, that led to 20 years of war in Afghanistan and other regional chaos. Only Barbara Lee, D-Calif., voted against that blank check for endless war. (Even though war is usually the greatest assault on personal liberties and the quickest path to financial ruin, I’ve left the Military off of my Top 20 chart to minimize pointless academic bickering. Both parties want a huge National Military. Nothing is new about that.)
Moving on to more substantial observations…
The Myth of ‘Free-Market’ Capitalism
At the midpoint of this list, it should be clear that the misnomer of “free-market capitalism” bears no resemblance to the last century of American politics. Not by a country mile.
That obsolete term is primarily a red herring that right-wing apologists (like Fox News, AM talk radio, dumb Republicans) bandy about to distract people from their own corporate fealty. Meanwhile, left-wing ideologues toss out the shibboleth of “raw-tooth capitalism” to invoke images of anarchy and distract people from their own authoritarian desires. Both sides are either woefully ignorant or just lying here.
The immense corporate welfare system of federal patent monopolies has enriched giant companies by trillions, often inflicting direct harm on smaller and more innovative companies, and always at the expense of consumers. In turn, these ravenous thugs act as unofficial tax-collectors for Washington, with corporate taxes all coming untraceably from the public.
Also troubling, the only possible chance of a patent system working is to implement it on a GLOBAL scale. That is, the “globalism” that phony left/right alarmists howl aimlessly about but fail to connect to its source. China’s wise avoidance of the international patent syndicate has undoubtedly contributed immensely to their recent growth… and also has many neocons fuming about alleged “theft” of Western “intellectual property.”
Furthermore, there is no better example of government picking winners and losers—a big conservative “No, No”—than our U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Every work day, that bureaucracy of 13,100 staff gleans through stacks of gussied up applications for signs of a “flash of genius” that deserves ostensible legal protection in federal courts. Even if a “little guy” is granted patent protection, the Big Guys can just swoop in and steal the idea anyway. And there is almost nothing small business owners can do to defend themselves.
The left/right “sponsor me” crowd is so enslaved to federal patent monopolies (and the corporate “hush money” showered on Universities and Big Media) that I’ll bet you can’t name ONE prominent influencer who has ever said something so mild as: I think the patent system does more harm than good. Since economic liberalism died long ago—and Democrats now love “regulated” monopolies—I can’t name any MSM figure that “bold” either.
Likewise, the immense corporate racket of government-granted banking charters bears no resemblance to “free market” anything. Shielded from open competition—and given a green light for fiat money creation—the ten largest banks in the U.S. have accumulated a staggering $12.6 trillion in assets, all from the “hard labor” of pushing papers around in an air-conditioned office. The rationale for exclusive bank charters goes back to the British East India Company (1600-1858). This prosperous and often repressive corporation used government charter privileges to establish a virtual monopoly of trade routes from India to China over the course of 250 years, seizing political control of India and Hong Kong along the way. Yes, systematic credit abuse has been going on for quite a while. And both parties love it.
Similarly, the grotesque racket of fiat banking showers additional favor on large corporations—from the Rockefellers to General Motors and from AT&T to Xerox—to grab market share from their smaller competitors. Then their fat and happy managers sit back and wallow in pools of illicit wealth, protected by deep trenches of “monopoly moats.” While leftists vaguely cite this outrageous cabal of corporate interests as an excuse for ever more market manipulation, servile conservatives maintain the myth of free-market competition that makes freedom look oppressive.
On top of that corporate graft, we have the immense federal “copyright” privileges of our lying, slanderous mass media and entertainment industries. For all the ceaseless right-wing whining over the “liberal” media and Hollywood’s contempt for “family values,” the tax-favored 501(c)(3) ninnies of Corporate Conservatism manage to overlook the obvious, yet again. On government “copyright” privileges that “academic” hucksters hold dear, and almost everything else.
Major Party Support for National (or Global) Socialism as of 2024: Items 11 to 20
“+” denotes significantly greater support for centralized power in a given area
| # | Topic | Federal Control? | Details of Federal Control | |
| Team Trump | Team Harris | |||
| 11 | Healthcare | Yes | Yes+ | The massive federal role via Medicaid and Medicare (since 1965) now costs taxpayers nearly $2 trillion per year just for those two programs and has caused medical expenses to skyrocket for everyone. Additional federal bungling crafted the HMO Act of 1973 which lured more people into tax-favored corporate health plans and further exploded healthcare costs, which now stand at a staggering $5 trillion per year. Never mind that real health benefits from cheaper food and better water and sanitation began over a century ago and had nothing to do with socialized medicine. Instead, socialized medicine has had horrible effects on U.S. healthcare (obesity crisis, opioid epidemic, drugs pushed on kids, lockdowns and vax mandates, entitlement attitudes, etc.). The federal Healthcare Politburo now swells to over 83,000 staffers, with its blizzard of codes/tables/review panels/hidden pricing and inhumane treatment of patients. We can’t blame “private” insurance for all of that. |
| 12 | Housing | Yes | Yes+ | Colonials and early Americans prospered for over 300 years with renting, saving and home ownership being a personal choice, benefitting from comparatively stable prices throughout that period. Everything changed when Hoover and FDR used the Depression as an excuse for federal intervention in housing, first creating the 15-year mortgage and later the 30-year mortgage, to the delight of debt dealers and the general public. Permanent HUD welfare slums soon followed, as did trillions of tax dollars wasted on federal lending agencies. Trump’s 2017 SALT reform was a good step forward in curbing this entitlement for wealthy people (a regressive tax break of $134 billion as of 2015). Renters now get hurt badly by this federal incompetence. |
| 13 | Immigration | Yes | Yes | Both parties are so entrenched on this core issue that few publicly acknowledge the alternative of States or communities having any voice whatsoever on the basic questions: Who decides on what people get allowed into American neighborhoods in the first place? Does being accepted into one State automatically make you a citizen of all other 49 States? With immigration coming to a head in the 1856 Presidential election (which resolved nothing in the process) the opponents of open-door admission would henceforth be denigrated as “Know Nothings” and “nativists.” Since then, ruling elites have become only more intolerant and more certain that D.C. knows best when it comes to immigration policy. |
| 14 | Male/Female Relations | Yes | Yes+ | Pandering to female voters and anti-business radicals, Democrats created the EEOC in 1965 to punish companies for the Thought Crime of not hiring and promoting enough women and preferred minorities. As of Obama’s last year in 2016, EEOC terrorized U.S. businesses with 91,500 new charges of “discrimination” filed plus an additional 97,400 charges “resolved” by federal pressure. As of 2020 under Trump, those numbers tapered a bit to 67,400 charges filed and 70,800 resolved. The number of businesses that take preemptive action to avoid lawsuits and public humiliation can only be guessed. Considering that owners have a vested interest for maximum efficiency and long-term employee satisfaction (whereas gov’t staffers profit from division and strife) this is an excellent case where the market can (and previously did) self-regulate for the interest of everyone. |
| 15 | Marriage | Yes | Yes | Federal interference on defining what’s a legitimate “marriage” (thanks to the GOP-backed Revenue Act of 1948) spawned right-wing demagoguery on “family values” and the LGBTQ push for a gov’t stamp of approval for their sexual partnerships. This obscure bit of social engineering would explode as a wedge issue a few generations later, shredding traditional marriage in the process. If President Trump can stand up to the Religious Right, he could benefit everyone by returning marriage to a private decision. If returning abortion to the States is any indication, doing something similar for gay/sad special vs. universal rights would be a messy transition, though. |
| 16 | Race Relations | Yes | Yes+ | Giving modern Democrats a generous free pass on slavery and Jim Crow, since the 1960s “progressives,” including JFK, have been obsessed with perpetually dividing Americans by race to whip up the black vote. The last three generations of USA’s arbitrary racial revenge have included neutralizing the significant pre-“Civil Rights” era black progress of the 1940s and 50s, hounding millions of whites from their urban homelands and spawning the scourge of black welfare dependency. In just the period of 1964 to 1971, federal race-mongering provoked a staggering 750 race riots. Today, millions of blacks are trapped in urban slums with terrible schools and few job opportunities, all for moralistic grandstanding of the Religious Left. That’s almost as bad as the lazy white farmers who started this mess to begin with. |
| 17 | Religion | Yes+ | Yes | Special tax privileges for officially approved churches go back to the megalomaniac Emperor Constantine, who sought to be leader of Heaven and Earth. Rulers of the British Empire mimicked that approach in the 1600s, a concept that “nine of the 13 original colonies” also copied by the 1770s. Additional strings were attached by the 1954 Johnson amendment, something Trump opposes for poor reasons. Both sides still support blanket exemptions from labor laws and local property tax breaks for corporate religion. All that contributes to a blinding arrogance among professional clergy: I’m special… I deserve special treatment! Extremely few Christians, Jews or atheists speak out against this universal abuse and the evils of political favoritism. Faux “conservatives” particularly love subsidized religion. |
| 18 | Retirement | Yes | Yes | Abandoning thousands of years of tradition, old folks now buy into the New Deal advice to permanently quit working, then trust that deceitful politicians and bankers will protect their dwindling wealth (and keep looting young workers) for the final two or three decades of their lives. What could possibly go wrong with that plan? Let’s see… While few have dared to question this sacred totem, personal savings, self-reliance and family cohesion have all tanked since the sham right of “retirement” was conjured in 1935. With high inflation, ticking pension bombs and declining worker-to-beneficiary ratios, people who put their faith in “social security” or any type of permanent “retirement” account will not fare well when that house of cards collapses. |
| 19 | Unions (nationalized) | Yes | Yes+ | The Wagner Act of 1935 (which created the NLRB) tipped the scales in favor of organized labor, encouraging union thuggery (including blockades, plant sabotage and mass squatting) that eventually crippled the U.S. manufacturing base. Thanks to New Deal union interference, “the number of ‘strike days’ doubled in one year, from 14 million in 1936 to 28 million in 1937,” per Robert Murphy’s P.I. Guide, page 108. Ohio Univ. economists estimate $50 trillion of reduced GDP over the period of 1947 to 2000 from union price fixing, collusion and other abuses. Democrats still pander heavily for union votes, while Republicans (pre-Trump) struggled to accept basic freedom of association rights of laborers. Although pro-union attitudes permeated both the early National Socialist German Workers’ Party (supposedly “far-right”) and the entire reign of the Soviet Union (supposedly “far-left”) longstanding union violence, intolerance and extremism have been normally coddled in Europe and America. |
| 20 | Wage Controls | Yes | Yes+ | One of the more egregious areas of hyper-legalism in modern America (which is saying a lot) as well as a boost for homelessness stems from the canard of “the minimum wage,” the trite euphemism for complex and convoluted wage controls. Big Brother’s little helpers in this category—unleashed by FDR’s “fair labor” act of 1938 and subsequent legislation—now live under the auspices of “Human Resources.” As celebrated by this cottage industry, the HR Alphabet Soup (free video and slides) consists of over 180 federal labor laws including ADA, ADEA, COBRA, Equal Pay Act of 1963, EEOC Title VII, ERISA, FLSA, FMLA, GINA, HIPAA, OFCCP, OWBPA, USERRA, and Workers’ Comp that private employers must sort through to stay out of trouble. If you don’t know what any of those acronyms stands for… better hire a bigger HR staff! Because one mistake can mean stiff fines, public humiliation or possible business closure. |
Well, that’s a lot of federal interference! And a lot of man-made suffering that most pundits casually deny. The fact that “liberals” now support such overt authoritarian is just the tip of this hypocritical iceberg. So do most “conservatives,” but we already knew that.
If we’re keeping score, modern Democrats are generally more fascistic on broadcast communications, education, energy, environment, gun ownership, healthcare, housing, male/female relations, racial affairs, unions and wage controls. Trump Republicans are more fascistic on agriculture and religion—and about equally inclined to central planning on banking, corporate welfare, drug prohibition, highways, marriage and retirement. Before Trump, it was more of a toss-up.
Immigration is something of a wild card, with both parties going “full retard” in different ways. Democrats crassly seek to import as many poor, unadjusted welfare voters as possible, even if it bankrupts the country. Trump’s gratuitous scapegoating of immigrants for most of the nation’s problems prompts valid criticism of him as a childish bully—or even an ignorant bigot—something TDS victims often mistake for “fascism.” To be sure, many modern immigrants come to America to mooch off its generous welfare state. But immigrants didn’t create any of those corrosive entitlements; farmers, “Bonus Army” veterans, and seniors did. And Trump panders heavily to all three groups.
Closet-Commies and Crypto-Fascists
With so much totalitarianism going around and so much confusion on what to call it, little wonder that the sociopaths who desire global domination have come so close to achieving their goal. A large part of the confusion comes from the bias of state-run education, where central planning is invariably taught as the answer to every problem.
Some of the confusion also comes from the usual suspects in Hollywood and mass media now in their ninth straight decade of churning out World War 2 revenge porn. These deceptive—and overtly fascistic—clansmen don’t just make a mockery of honest scholarship. Their ethno-centric antics distract people from the real authoritarian threat growing in North America and Europe.
Jewish militants, Christian Zionists and millions of pliant accomplices have been demonizing “Nazis” and “fascists” for so long that I suspect a majority of Americans, particularly those under 30, don’t even know that “Nazi” once stood for National Socialist. As a result, the epithets “Nazi” and “fascist” are now usually hurled—most often by totalitarian leftists—to denote the embodiment of supreme evil, although liberals typically deny the concept of Good & Evil.
Strangely, the same cultural influencers who routinely shorten National Socialist to Nazi almost never shorten Communist to “commie” or Hebrews to “Hebes” or Homosexuals to “homos.” That would be too disrespectful to the latter three groups, whose feelings are of the utmost importance to our ruling class. Evidently, some slurs are much more equal than others.
Also important, the enormous political capital invested demonizing Germans, Italians and Japanese in the 1930s and 40s built a war chest of American exceptionalism and Jewish victimhood that totalitarians have been cashing in ever since.
This isn’t to take sides on who was more barbaric during World War 2 or ignore the fact that millions of innocent lives were shattered on both sides of that conflict. (However, I will note that establishment historians are losing their minds over a recent outsider, Darryl Cooper, making valid points about American, British and German activities during that war. I view Mr. Cooper’s and this website’s contributions to public education surrounding WW2 as more balanced and informative than the combined efforts of thousands of government schoolteachers and legacy media shills.)
My point is that totalitarianism has been growing in America for far too long, regardless if it has a “national” or “international” flavor. (Bickering over whether German socialists were more on the Left or Right, or whether America’s ruling elites are really fascists or communists is largely pointless. The conventional nomenclature that “fascists” support socialism on a national level is good enough for me. Democrat support for censorship, street violence, partisan lawfare, religious bigotry and racial spoils further supports that classification.)
Whatever terminology we settle on, the Trump administration may only have two years to roll back generations of federal abuses, or perhaps four if the economy holds out and Republicans maintain control of Congress. During that short period, tremendous effort will be required to repair just a portion of that damage.
For the next four years, obstructionist Democrats, RINOs and their powerful media allies will be using their immense government privileges and corporate sponsorships to advance their relentless agenda of more centralized control of America. Inevitably, our legacy media will use every dishonest trick in their playbook to destroy President Trump and any reformers in his cabinet throughout that time.
To thwart their efforts in gaslighting Americans to maximize power in Washington, I think it helps to frequently expose the D.C. ruling class and its entrenched institutions for what they really are. Since most of them habitually deny adherence to any form of “socialism,” I’ll return to my original question: Is there any aspect of life where humans can function without (usually major) interference from politicians and bureaucrats?
If most university scholars, professional pundits, Swamp creatures and elected officials are being honest, the answer to that question would be a resounding: “No.” There is a common F-word for people like that. And it ain’t “friend.”
Source: The Unz Review
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