How do you feel about giving up? Maybe even hiding or leaving the U.S.?
You know... let the 46% of the voters who supported Pres.
Trump have their way and go live somewhere safe, far from the nasty tentacles
of steamroller Fascist America.
The idea is that things have gone way too far from the
America we believed in as children and there is literally nothing one can do to
stem the tide unleashed since the 9/11 cold case murders of more than 3,000 innocents.
Further, the rationale goes, resistance of any kind actually
helps the American Fascists by creating a boogeyman-enemy for them to toss to
their zealots. Like throwing the immigrants and the media before... now it will be anyone opposed to the American Fascists... and the true believers will once again eat it up in one gulp... like a piece of meat tossed to a starving dog.
While my mind says that there really is no place in the
world safe from a U.S.
drone, cruise missile or smart bomb, at least one author believe that “disengagement”
is our only salvation against American Fascism. Here's his article:
This Is a Fight Against Fascism—Our Resistance Tactics Have
to Change,
By Anis Shivani, AlterNet, 5 Mar 2017*
“There are a lot of killers. What, you think our country’s
so innocent?” — Donald J. Trump, Feb. 6, 2017
There continues to be a gross underestimation, even amongst
politically aware liberals, of what we are really up against, and how to
counter it. Increasingly, our fellow citizens are resorting to the concepts of
fascism to describe the current situation, but this is not necessarily followed
by any cogent reflection on what the political subject under fascism needs to
do. Ordinary liberal prescriptions have no chance of success under a regime
that has moved into an overt fascist mode; moreover, the unacknowledged
continuities from the recent neoliberal past, which led to the fascist overture
in the first place, mar any consistency of thought amongst intellectuals,
activists, and ordinary citizens.
The time has come to explore modes of existence that only
make sense under a fascist regime, or rather, they are the only modes that make
sense under fascist conditions. Above all, the question of moral disengagement
from any existing political practice must be taken seriously, and this includes
so-called “resistance.” Are there things that pass under the activist rubric
today that are actually strengthening rather than weakening fascism? If that is
the case, then those activities must undergo severe scrutiny, because it may
well be that what seems like activism is actually passivism, and vice versa.
I started writing about a “soft” American totalitarianism
for the first time in 1998, in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
American civic institutions seemed to me to have stopped functioning for the
first time in 1994, after the Gingrich takeover, which made me take a step
back, only to reemerge, awakened, when the Lewinsky scandal happened. I was not
interested in the content of the scandal, which was a mere pretext to engineer
reaction in a form we had never seen before without the instrument of twenty-four-hour
cable news, but the way in which perceptions were being manipulated seemed to
me to be mortally dangerous for democracy.
After 9/11, I resorted to the vocabulary of fascism for that
whole decade, often comparing and contrasting Bush’s early years to the
Hitlerian model, since this was what I knew best then. However, once I started
studying Italian fascism seriously about seven years ago, it has seemed to me
that the original Mussolinian model is more apt, because of some important
missing elements in the way fascism has been developing in this country. During
the 2016 election campaign, I identified points of similarity between Trump and
Mussolini, and considered whether he was better seen as a fascist or a populist
authoritarian. Clearly, in the month since he took over he has entered an
overtly fascist stage, with elements of both Mussolini and Hitler in play.
But I think that instead of these admittedly helpful
historical comparisons it might be more clarifying now to conceptualize a new
form of fascism: the third important variant, if you will, following the
original Mussolini model and the later Hitlerian model, which was a development
of and departure from the original in many respects.
Please go here for the entire article.
Unless we find a way to stop American
Fascism this could happen again - this time to anyone who rankles the Trumpian regime:
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