So, Who Are the Real Fascists?

Who wants massive government control of every important facet of your life? Who wants more control over the 'free enterprise' system, free healthcare, limits on free speech, gun confiscation, UN interference? Who is aligned with the masked and violent

When a political party in the United States no longer believes in the ideals in which their nation was founded, when a political party expresses dissatisfaction with its nation’s Constitution, when a political party pushes Socialism (a system of government that has never been successful in history), when a political party ignores its own immigration laws to allow millions of migrants illegal entry hoping to create more party members and to destroy the culture of the host country, one of two things is happening. Either that party wants to create a new country from the top down or they are only interested in power. In this case, it is both.

When a political party in the United States no longer believes in the ideals in which their nation was founded, when a political party expresses dissatisfaction with its nation’s Constitution................, when a political party ignores its own immigration laws to allow millions of migrants illegal entry ..........

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Unfortunately for US, BOTH parties worked together to violate the Constitution with the Kenyanesian Usurpation and BOTH parties have refused to enforce the immigration laws.

If Trump had not stepped up we would have been force fed another amnesty vs amnesty election.

"The subject of Abraham Lincoln's "Lyceum" speech was citizenship in a democratic republic and threats to American institutions. In the speech, Lincoln discussed in glowing terms the political system established by the founding fathers, but warned of a destructive force from within. He asked his listeners:

'Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.'- Abraham Lincoln, "Lyceum" Speech

Lincoln then warned that a tyrant could overtake the American political system from within. He said:

'It is to deny what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion as others have done before them. The question then is, Can that gratification be found in supporting and maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others? Most certainly it cannot. Many great and good men, sufficiently qualified for any task they should undertake, may ever be found whose ambition would aspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress, a gubernatorial or a presidential chair; but such belong not to the family of the lion or the tribe of the eagle. What! think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon? Never! Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. It sees no distinction in adding story to story upon the monuments of fame erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freemen. Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? And when such an one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs. Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm, yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.'- Abraham Lincoln, "Lyceum" Speech

As I mentioned in another thread, we only hurt ourselves by trying to label communists as fascists. Either nobody outside our own circles hears the words, or if they do, they are conditioned to assume we have joined the mainstream in seeing nationalist alternatives to globalism as fascist.

So my advice to anyone trying to pin that label on the left is to abandon it and start calling them what they really are, communists. Political correctness is more of a communist than a fascist sort of ideology.

The other weakness in the argument is that fascists gained power in Germany and Italy when the centre-right collapsed through weakness in opposition to the dangers posed by the far left. Trump is a strong centre-right nationalist figure closer to Hindenburg than anyone else in that paradigm. People potentially dissatisfied with his response to the left could adopt a really fascist line.

But the left in that same analysis are the same left that failed to achieve communist revolution in Germany or Italy, and are now trying to achieve it here as they did in Cuba and Venezuela.

Granted, the day to day operations of a communist and fascist state are similar in many ways. However, the segments of society who are pleased by having that happen are entirely different. My point can be easily verified if anyone has any doubts by examining the outcomes of German elections from the Weimar republic to the Third Reich.

Mussolini took over faster and banned all opposition, but his own personal transition was from socialist agitator to nationalist demagogue primarily interested in securing overseas expansion opportunities for what he saw as a more virile and worthy population than the inferiors who lived there.

I think the fascist meme started because of incidentals, the name Hillary can be changed to Hitlery, Soros had that murky period in his youth when he collaborated with the Germans, brownshirts censor publications, etc etc. We are perhaps less familiar with the overall record of the communists, and we should get familiar with it because this is our enemy. We don’t have a fascist enemy in sight, that would be two hundred losers who meet once a year in a pub to toast Adolf Hitler.

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