Posted on 10/20/2018 7:00:53 AM PDT by rktman
They forget President Obama’s dictum: “Elections have consequences.” One is the President’s right to nominate Federal judges. But from their perspective, “consequences” must never apply when they lose – and the Electoral College must be abolished when it works as our Founding Fathers intended: to keep populous urban areas from dominating presidential elections and imposing a tyranny of the majority. (The fact that 85% of all US counties voted for Donald Trump illustrates this principle in action.)
In most of these cases, “they” are the Antifa mobs. Antifa being short for “anti-fascist.” Don’t be conned.
The Antifa mobs are fascists! And they have become the ski-masked thug wing of the Democratic Party.
They (and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kyrsten Sinema, Andrew Gillum, Bernie Sanders and other favored candidates) certainly espouse socialism as their vehicle for wealth redistribution. However, in almost every other respect, their philosophies and actions reflect fascism, which is generally defined as:
A political system in which an authoritarian government does not own businesses and industries, but strictly regulates and controls their actions, output and rights – while forcibly controlling and suppressing citizens and their thought and speech via stringent laws, intimidation and even violence.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
NON print:
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/10/20/the-party-of-antifa-fascists-n2530342
Been saying this for months. Over a year.
The Party of Antifa Fascists?
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Antifa are scum and they use violence to intimidate, but they wet their diapers when someone takes pride in their nation, so in what meaningful sense are they fascists?
The House needs to stop dragging their feet on this bill and get it out of committee and onto the floor
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6054/text
H.R.6054 - Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018
Latest Action:
House - 07/30/2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. (All Actions)
Globalesozialistische Amerikanische Arbeiterpartei...
Just call them Gazis.
THEIR nation is not OUR nation.
Remember that Islamofascists are also Fascists, and they don't even believe in national borders.
Simply substitute an ideology in place of a geographical nation, and Antifa meets all the parts of the definition of Fascism.
I think you're confusing "fascist" with "nationalist."
Islamofascist is not a generally accepted category. It’s popular with those right-of-center in their politics, but not broadly accepted.
Fascism, however, is a generally accepted term. Inherent in the definition if Fascism is a nationalism that is militant and aggressive.
Now, don;t get me wrong. I think that certain countries that were labeled “fascist” don;t fit this description. For example Franco’s Spain was not a militarily aggressive state. It was certainly a nationalist movement that sought to preserve traditional Spanish culture.
I think you’re confusing “fascist” with “nationalist.”
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No...the Left views fascism and nationalism as synonymous. I don’t. Unfortunately, many academics associate the two, which I think is just a laziness in thinking.
To me fascism is coupled with an very aggressive militarism. But Fascism implies a strong sense of nationalism...if only because force is necessary to protect/affirm the cultural identity of said nation.
No...the Left views fascism and nationalism as synonymous. I don’t. Unfortunately, many academics associate the two, which I think is just a laziness in thinking.
To me fascism is coupled with an very aggressive militarism. But Fascism implies a strong sense of nationalism...if only because force is necessary to protect/affirm the cultural identity of said nation.
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Let me clarify further...fascism implies nationalism, but not the other way around. You can be a nationalist and yet not be an advocate of aggressive, interventionist foreign policy.
No, I believe nationalism is a good thing, a common bond that cements the identity of a people. Fascism is just a codified system of tyranny, and nationalism is not a necessary ingredient.
Why would force be necessary to affirm a nation’s cultural identity if the people of the nation took pride in it? It’s not as though the faith of other nations was important. It’s a question of SELF-identity and SELF-pride. We don’t have to force anyone to acknowledge our worth. It’s enough that we see it ourselves.
No, I believe nationalism is a good thing, a common bond that cements the identity of a people. Fascism is just a codified system of tyranny, and nationalism is not a necessary ingredient.
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A country might have to protect its culture from internal and external threats. Both will require force at some level. Defending against an internal threat might mean cracking down on ideologies that are fundamentally antithetical to the American Revolution...like domestic, subversive Communism.
External threats might also be nations that militarily (and aggressively) push Communism, but it could simply be any nation that seeks to invade or replace our culture hear on U.S. soil.
I think you may have misunderstood me. I believe nationalism is healthy as long as it does not morph into the kind of inhuman form of 20th-century Nazism. But I most certainly beg to differ...Fascism implied a distinct cultural/national identity. When the Nazis and the Communists were fighting for control of Germany in the early 20th-century, the German Communists had a globalist loyalty, while the National Socialists had a distinctly German one.
I agree as far as it goes. But you've described Communists and Socialists, both of which were fascistic in their totalitarianism. Trotskyite ("international") Communism was no less tyrannical than the Stalinist ("Russian") version. And Mussolini's Blackshirts were not trumpeting their nationalist superiority; that "race of the Caesars" ethnic purity nonsense was borrowed wholesale from Hitler.
I don't believe a strong national identity is an important ingredient in fascism. It really only needs a lust for power and an intolerance for the opinions of others. A hive mentality, if you will.
And it's clear which ideology in this country has that to excess.
Me too. Been referring to them as ‘Antifafa..’ hasn’t caught on yet.
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