The far-right and Christian Evangelicals are planning a fascist take-over of the USA.
a Trump rerun? How is that possible? The guy has a thousand lawsuits hanging over him ranging from rape, tax evasion, criminal activity to insurrection. haven’t ALL the American people woken up to the fact that he’s a crooked, self-serving con man yet? Not only that but he’s a fascist who is busy undermining democracy!
But then that seems to be what a lot of Americans want. A good number are fascists!
The USA appears to be divided into two camps. The divisions run deep and are fuelled by hate and fear. They sum up the way populist policies have altered the political landscape.
On one side we have a faction spouting freedom but really are looking to take freedom away from others, if that freedom doesn’t conform to their view of how it should be. Fundamentally they are after God, white America, Nationalism and the right to bear arms. The fanatical evangelical religious side is as extreme as the Taliban. They promote an Old Testament view that appears to me to be extreme, misogynistic and completely nuts. They question science, refute evolution and want to take away women’s rights to abortion and contraception. Smacks to me of the Dark Ages.
Under the rather ridiculous guise of Make America Great Again they have taken on a leader who is a blatant womanising conman of a populist. nature. He perennially lies, spreads conspiracy, undermines experts and scientists and spouts rubbish. He encourages violence, promotes racism, drums up hatred against immigrants and minority groups, cosies up to extreme right-wing groups, cosies up to despots and tyrants – like Putin and Kim Jung-Un – and has been systematically shovelling cash into his own coffers.
Trump has no regard for democracy. He is already putting in place undemocratic mechanisms to ensure that he can become elected even if he loses the vote.
Trump has cynically used disparate factions such as white supremacist groups, the NRA, QAnon and evangelical Christians to create a weird alliance. The sort of madness that gave rise to obnoxious semi-religious, quasi-political organisations such as the Ku Klux Klan. By promising to give them what they want he has gained their support even though they know that he is cynically using them and is a complete hypocrite.
For some unfathomable reason, a great number of Americans cannot see that he is deliberately sowing seeds of discontent, making promises and using conspiracy and fake news in order to gain power and become even richer.
Only in America could millions of people believe the Earth is flat, is only 6-10,000 years old, that the Democrats drink babies’ blood and hold satanic rituals and that the Democratic Party is run by alien lizards. Only in America!
These people feel they have some god-given right to own and parade around the streets with semi-automatic assault rifles – despite the number of mass killings, murders and gang wars.
It’s OK to kill but it’s not OK to use contraception or have an abortion.
They see nothing wrong in imposing these views on others – despite their claim to want freedom.
This extreme populist doctrine has taken over what was the Republican Party. It is authoritarian, totalitarian and verges on fascism, yet the fanatical, gun-totin’ populists believe that their version of nationalism and religion is what America is all about.
On the other side we have a Party that seems more rooted in the 21st century, which respects democracy, respects women’s rights, is inclusive, doesn’t associate itself with fake news, QAnon, fascism and conspiracy theories. Doesn’t deny science and experts and so recognises the need to address issues like climate change and biodiversity. Sees things in a wider context than just cash and profit. Has sensible attitudes towards gun control and immigration. Sees everything as being far more nuanced and complex than simple black-and-white solutions. But has no charismatic leader and is currently led by an old decrepit man.
Good luck to all Americans with your choice. In my opinion, if you vote for the fascists America will be going down the tubes quickly followed by the rest of us!
I hope you look at the bigger picture, beyond the personalities, and vote for intelligence and sense over stupidity and conspiracy – but I don’t hold out a lot of hope. Any country that gives a sociopathic narcissist like Trump any support at all has a serious systemic problem.
The rest of the world looks at America with its jaw hanging open.
It is apparent to me that the wave of Islamic terrorism coupled with mass immigration caused by war and economic factors created a fear and siege mentality.
In the UK Islamic terrorism, Muslim immigration and Eastern European immigration caused a big xenophobic fear that was exploited by Farage, Cummings and Johnson to create Brexit.
In the States it was Islamic terrorism (9-11) coupled with mass immigration from central America that resulted in fear and Trump.
Populist leaders, such as Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro, Modi, Orban and Erdogan were quick to exploit fears, ramp up division and promise easy solutions. Once in power they began taking over the democratic processes and consolidating their power. This includes suppressing votes in opposition areas, taking over the media, spilling out propaganda and controlling the machinery for the democratic process.
In the UK this involves changing boundaries, suppressing protest, controlling the tabloid press and loading the BBC with Tories. There is no way of contesting the lies and nobody is ever accountable. They lie, pour out fake news and propaganda with impunity.
In the USA Trump took over the Republican party, Used voter suppression, poured out a stream of lies and propaganda, promised walls, encouraged and condoned violence and in the final end tried to take the election by force in an insurrection,
Throughout the world this division and scapegoating has empowered the racists, xenophobes and other fascist groups.
What we are seeing is fascism in action.
In America Trump was kicked out – but only just!
He hasn’t gone away. His legacy is a large base of empowered racists, xenophobes and white supremacists. They are waiting for him to reappear. He could yet return and finish the job.
So how do you get rid of autocratic fascists who seize the mechanisms of democracy?
This wave of populist fascism has not gone away!
Feel The Shame America
You’re still fighting the Civil War
Where the North is rich
And the South is poor.
Where the white thugs
Fly their Confederate flags
And lynched black men
Lie in body bags.
Armed militia prowl the street
Believe the earth is flat
Or you’ll feel their heat.
A mad concoction of
White supremacy
And the KKKs version
Of Christianity.
The madman tapped into that hate
Stirred it up with ‘Make America Great’.
Empowering the racist thugs
Offering walls
To uneducated mugs.
You let it happen –
You voted him in.
Sanctioning vile hatred
Is your greatest sin.
You toadied and
Kept quiet
As the fascism grew
When all the time
You really knew.
So where do we place the blame?
America, have you no shame?
Opher 9.1.2021
First he was the spoilt brat, then the property tycoon, then TV star and finally President.
He hasn’t changed. Always the spoilt brat with his tantrums. Always the racist misogynist. The fascist speculator. The narcissistic sociopath.
But you were taken in. You voted for him.
You excused his crass behaviour, his surliness and tantrums. You excused his cheating, his mafia connections, his tax evasion and criminal activity. You excused his rudeness and arrogance. You excused the way he empowered the hate-filled.
You condoned his behaviour.
He was straight-talking. He connected with the working man.
You sucked up to the fascist chief.
You let him take over the Republican Party and install his family and associates.
You condoned him insulting allies and sucking up to despots.
You condoned his nepotism, cronyism and bulling.
You let him have the country and stood by while he lied, spread conspiracy and divided the nation.
You backed him.
Feel the shame America. You installed a fascist. You condoned a fascist and you stood by a fascist.
Feel the shame.
