Broadly Grinning Fascism
Joe Biden, his dementia notwithstanding, remains a far more effective social engineer than right-wing demagogues.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, is a klutzy loudmouth with none of the political provenance that embraces Biden as its warmongering son. When the exemplar of that provenance, Barack Obama, left office after eight years of extraordinary militarism, he had saddled Americans with seven wars: two of them ongoing as Obama entered the White House, the five new ones indisputably belonging to our Nobel Peace Prize Winner. And here it must be remembered that Trump, by contrast, added zero wars to U.S. Imperium’s hit list — indeed, waking up in a weird mood one day, he subtracted Afghanistan from Obama’s roster of doom.
The Obama years were a Neocon’s dream; not since WWII had the United States engaged in so much openly declared warfare.
Old fans of Obama’s foreign policy now talk about fighting “fascism” while Harris & Co. collude in the checklist to a) burn Gaza's refugees alive b) bomb the civilians of Beirut c) march American soldiers into Israel’s war of aggression against Iran d) use and abuse Ukraine to egg on thermonuclear armageddon. Is it just me? Or does Trump’s cartoonish approach to international relations rankle less than the ensconced middle-class rectitude of a Democratic Party forever in cahoots with academic institutions, arms manufacturers and huge swathes of the legacy media? Not to mention Biden’s strong-arming social media platforms via that surreptitious force dubbed “the Deep State,” a term since banished from the liberal-left lexicon as “conspiratorial language,” but once a staple of New York Times reporting.
Lapses imposed on our collective memory help the Democratic Party Faithful, in particular the white ones, to forget intelligence agencies flooding Black neighborhoods with drugs. And to forgive, by thoughtless reflex, the sins of then-District Attorney Kamala Harris for putting scores of her victims in prison for non-violently consuming said drugs. Social engineers like Harris and Biden smile more than Trump does, even as they abridge our First Amendment freedoms in the name of national security.
To quote my favorite conspiracy theorist, Glenn Greenwald, “The most urgent goal of the Democratic Party, and I am NOT exaggerating, is to silence free speech, particularly online.”
“Particularly,” that is, but not solely: NYU’s new student code of conduct punishes the crime of criticizing Zionism after last year's police crackdowns on campuses across Joe Biden’s America, during which the President labeled our most courageous young scholars “anti-Semites.” Donald Trump AKA Orange 47, is not surrendering the university: Biden, Harris and former Vietnam War dissenters like John Kerry are doing that by publicly trashing Enlightenment ideals, and replacing them with strict protocols for supporting genocide.
If the Democrats' social engineering campaign builds consensus against constitutional principles, Kerry tacitly acknowledges this when he complains that the First Amendment is a stumbling block for his party and the government as a whole.
That's its function, John, to thwart you from denying us the right to think. How long has the Democratic Party taken in GOP asylum seekers — maniacs and imbeciles still touting the Iraq War's presumptive virtues? We are faced with two fascist candidates. Trump embodies that species of fascism many Democrats associate with American Populism. The “righty” — or, in their view — only kind there is. The lefty populist tradition is fixed in a perennial blind spot whenever Dem perspectives on U.S. history are spoken aloud. The Party’s creative editing, assisted by its media surrogates, has expunged from the record Donald Trump’s uniquely quixotic blend of economic populism and peace-making. Lower-case “f” fascism means “the perfect confluence of government and concentrated economic power.”
Is it any wonder that Dick Cheney endorses Kamala Harris’ broadly grinning fascism?
Awaiting nuclear exchanges with Russia, The Chiseler dissents, screamingly: “Vote for Jill Stein!”
by Daniel Riccuito