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the fascism of the anglo-saxon civilisationThe fascist trend in America’s politics portends a lasting erosion of the underpinnings of the ties which have bound Australia to its most important ally and provides a powerful reason for us to loosen these ties. The US on the road to fascism: a time to loosen our ties By Jeremy Webb
It’s a chilling realisation that we are faced with a US president who, despite his folksy acceptance address seems bent on creating a regime with disturbing fascist characteristics. Even more confronting is that a majority of the US voting population are amenable to such an appalling prospect and are immune to the incalculable damage to the US and the world economy likely to be wrought by this presidency. Trump has not created these attitudes in voters, but rather he has unearthed and reinforced them and bound them into an ongoing powerful political force. For Australia, the fascist trend in America’s politics portends a lasting erosion of the underpinnings of the ties which have bound Australia to its most important ally and provides a powerful reason for us to loosen these ties. The emergence of power centralising anti-democratic traits characteristic of fascism was clearly visible during the last Trump presidency. That came in the erosion of some of the key tenets of democracy and efforts to centralise power in the presidency. Stacking the supreme court significantly neutered the separation of powers – of which the judicial system is a central pillar. Another other major pillar of democracy – the separation of power between the executive and legislative was also being dismantled by Trump’s ability to imbue a hyper partisan stranglehold over Republican members of the House of Representatives and Senate. Witness Trump’s capacity – even when out of power – to block for partisan reasons legislation which would have produced a significant tightening reform of immigration policy. The road to fascism is also being followed by Trump in his efforts to centralise power in the Presidency. That aim is being pursued in a number of post election agendas which include bringing the FBI and the Department of Justice under the president’s direct political control. In parallel, Trump has signalled mass sackings and replacements with compliant government employees eradicating the independence of the bureaucracy and thus further expanding the power of the President, But surely what indicates that the seeds of fascism are being implanted in the US – as an increasing number of academics are now arguing – is the problematically large proportion of adult Americans who support a person who is repudiating the essence of democracy – the validity of elections. In holding to this repudiation, Trump has harvested the long building discontent over the long broken American dream – and particularly for older white Americans. That they still believe this dream can be repaired under Trump signals they still hold that success is there for anyone who really tries – in reality a subjection to a Darwinian mode of survival – of survival of the fittest. For these and others in the lowest socio-economic strata, there is the realisation that democracy has not delivered a significant improvement in their standard of living. All this feeds the essentially fascist notion that what is needed is not a robust democracy but a strong, powerful leader to effect change. We must also be acutely concerned that Americans accept that the price for a strong leader is a president who has been twice impeached, convicted of 34 felonies, is a compulsive liar, a misogynist, a racist, a narcissist, a sexist, someone who has utter disregard for the truth and a bully who compulsively seeks to vengefully inflict retribution on his critics. We can equally wonder how a majority of Americans blithely accept that centralising power will deliver rich economic rewards as promised by Trump. In reality, they accept policies which are directly antithetical to their interests. That is:
Nevertheless, during the election night one SBS commentator asserted that you had to accept that Americans had so voted with good reason. No one demurred other than one of his colleagues who later observed that voters were, in supporting Trump, effectively rejecting democracy. This election therefore provides evidence of the chronic fragility of American democracy and the confronting fact that Australia’s interests will by no means be shared by a majority of the US population. In foreign policy terms it seems Americans are happy to put power into the hands of someone who has no particular attachment to pivoting to Asia, who spurns the complexities of multilateralism, but prefers transactional bilateralism backed by an unshakable belief in an enduring global US hegemony and military supremacy. And while some may support his declared aim to disengage the US in other country wars his transactional skills are surely highly questionable if not dangerous. In such a world our Asia oriented agreements -ANZUS, the QUAD – may no longer be regarded as foundational institutions on which long term relationships can be nurtured. The risks for Australia are all the more severe given so many Americans are content to ignore that their presidents – including Biden – pay limited heed to critical elements of the rules based international order such as the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. With Trump as President Australia must accept that our alliance with the US will be even less underpinned by shared western, democratic and humanitarian values. But international allies we do need in terms of crafting a favourable international economic order. That is, we need multilateral support for our trade dependent economy, securing global consensus on climate change and biodiversity preservation so critical for our future wellbeing, and for strengthening UN progress on humanitarian/cultural goals through globally robust multilateral institutions. In these endeavours we are surely better suited to forging such consensuses with the EU together with other like-minded countries. This election therefore provides disturbing confirmation that Australia needs to progressively disengage with our current lockstep support of the US in international relations. Without suffering great opprobrium from President Trump, we could progressively expend far greater diplomatic resources firstly within our own Asia-Pacific/Indo Pacific region but also with the EU. We could also begin to discard the habit of professing to be co-defenders with the US of democracy and the rightfulness of western civilisation. The US track record on these issues – and especially in regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict – does not sell well in our region and for good reason. Moreover, this presidential election warns us that with such a compliant electorate, the severe damage already inflicted on US democratic ideals may be further eroded in the coming years. https://johnmenadue.com/the-us-on-the-road-to-fascism-a-time-to-loosen-our-ties/
THE USA HAVE BEEN SECRETLY FASCIST SINCE THEIR INCEPTION WHEN RICH PEOPLE DID NOT WANT TO PAY TAXES — BUT THE WORD HAD NOT BEEN INVENTED UNTIL BENITO MUSSOLINI....
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by Olivier Field
MAGA ... M****ake A****merica G****o A****way…!
What if…? It is the nature of empires to expand everywhere and as deeply as possible until the model becomes unbearable. The United States of America will not deviate from this rule, but how will the ebb, the return to its borders, both geographical and moral, cultural and political, occur? In extraordinary unrest or in an apocalypse of violence?
To this day, the will to hegemonic power has made the planet a playground for the USA. They have placed their weapons, their military, their bases, their auxiliaries there. Thanks to the control of their local collaborators, their cronies as much as their Dollar and their legal constraints worthy of the most iniquitous judicial systems in History. Their domination of the media, the arts and entertainment makes this enterprise of planetary domination painless. A beautiful mechanism but a seized mechanism nonetheless.
In mental thickets, a vast majority of people aspire to free themselves from an increasingly belligerent, deadly master with the most inhuman methods including open-air carnage, drug-induced guardianship, sex and destruction of the bodies and souls of children and young people led astray by crazy theories such as transgenderism and slave-based PMA. The man in the street is reluctant to swallow the imposed soup but power only goes to the servants of the power in place: politicians, journalists, artists, media men. So the man in the street is silent.
So we continue to glorify a war that kills hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians, we endorse, finance and support a Zionist state that in broad daylight triggers increasingly extensive wars, increasingly obvious crimes and promises the Jews of the planet, essentialized by them, a return of anti-Semitism to a level never reached, and by far, in the past… We accept the organization of growing social injustice, against the direction of History. We prepare a society of submissive, monitored oppressed people whose collective intelligence that incidentally built the world, is stifled, as if technology would easily replace it.
Everything is a cycle, everything is an ebb and flow. And the ruling class that considers itself above all human and even physical law is beginning to experience it. They see themselves as eternally powerful. Benefiting from immortality, taking advantage of the progress and the resources of the planet without limits, forcing as long as necessary, a population of nothing at all, to lives without choice, without access to nature, without rights other than to obey and serve, deprived of all free will, all form of thought. The very statement of this ongoing project, perfectly excessive, should condemn it and yet it thrives.
Yes, but... a resistance is emerging and growing wildly bolder. Eyes are slowly opening. Balances are being called into question. Indeed, as long as the war affected strangers, far away, dissimilar, everything was fine. But it is at our doorstep. As long as the supply chains of our comfortable life were running, everything was fine. Electricity is in our sockets, everything necessary and superfluous is in our stores, our weekends are weekends... But the cracks are legion. The insane enrichment of some, reinforced by debts, crazy commitments weighing on all those almost entirely excluded from the feast, is too obvious. The conflicts multiplied to divert energies from the real enemy, end up surprising even the most closed-minded.
All this cannot exist without a sponsor, a fortress from which this rule without a future is maintained. And it is the leaders, publicly known or not, of this American empire, who will go as far as Armageddon to keep the world on this dead-end path against the people, against most of the vassal countries and opponents. Russia has turned on the light on the real weakness of this American omnipotence, others have then joined the resistance and the moment when the planet will be freed from this tyranny is approaching. Not without pain and certainly not gently. History is tragic and will show it once again. But in the end America will end up as such, it will leave the mental, geographical, political occupied territories… And our role is to support at least in thought the end of this power that kills man, even and especially if we are crushed by the evidence of its strength.
Make America Go Away may be just a caricature of our need to drive out the bad, both in ourselves and in humanity,… but it will be a good start.
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Gus Leonisky