We Need To Fight Fascism... Again

 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Hereafter FDR) was elected in 1933, the same year that Hitler took office in Germany, and a decade after Mussolini assumed the dictatorship of Italy in 1922.  Mussolini coined the term "Fascism," but many dictators have used his playbook ever since.  That is what Hitler did in Germany.  And FDR was a great admirer of Mussolini (because he wanted power above all).  It was said Mussolini got the trains to run on time.  But the facts are that while efficiency in train schedules is a worthwhile goal, the otherwise brutal reign of terror brought on a country is hardly worth it.

Glenn Beck has claimed that what we are heading into in the United States is Oligarchy, the rule of the rich.  And I have to admit that with the recent gathering of 100 Corporate heads to a zoom meeting to discuss the rules they intend to impose on us, that it looks like he is right.  But Chris Stigall has a different take in an article at Townhall.com entitled Fascism Hasn't Changed. Neither Has Its Pitchman.

Stigall thinks the truth is that corporate CEOs are not "woke" so much as they are terrified. They are reacting to pronouncments coming from Biden and other Democrats because they hope to be eaten last. And he makes a very good case. He starts out with a meeting Obama had with the CEOs of what became known as "Too Big to Fail" banks in which Obama made the pitch that in order to bail out the banks, there would be some changes. Sort of a "You got a nice bank there. Be a shame to see it go bankrupt." This is the oldest manuever of governments everywhere. Give me you money (taxes), and I will protect you. Even when they fail in their first duty, you still must pay them taxes. You got a nice home there, be a shame to see it burned down.

Is it any surprise then, to see corporate America jumping through hoops to do Democrats’ political bidding today? It shouldn’t be. We’re reliving the beginning of the same movie we first watched twelve years ago. The same guy with the same ideology is in charge again. The only difference is this time we’re all supposed to pretend it’s the feeble old senator from Delaware running the meetings.

Corporate America knows better.

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Prior to Republicans being kicked off and censored on social media, it was Democrats who dragged “big tech” to Washington to hold hearings over their concerns Republicans were getting too effective at using their platforms. “You have a real nice website there, Mr. Zuckerberg. Be a shame if anything happened to it,” Democrats’ effectively messaged.

Since then Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. have done their level best to placate Democrats by silencing and censoring conservative voices, but they know Democrats will always want more. Board appointments, big donations, and new creative activism on their behalves will be critical for big tech if they’re to keep Democrats’ from kneecapping them next.

So, in this telling, the CEOs are terrified of what the Democrats are likely to do to their companies, and so attempt to show their loyalty in any way they can. But, it is also true that most of them are Democrats. Why anyone wants to be an unprincipled jackass is a story for another day. But it remains true that these CEOs are already primed to do the bidding of the Democrat party.

With the gross, in your face rigging of the 2020 Presidential election, though, they have struck at the Republican party, but not killed it. Not yet:

They’re referred to today as “woke” for objecting to election integrity reforms, but that’s not it. They’re not woke - which is really just a trendy, polite word for fascism. Yes, they’re Democrat voters but more than that they’re terrified. They’ll do what they must to stay on Democrats’ good side just to protect their operations from within.

Democrats are prepared to pack the Supreme Court to get their way because they can’t win elections. You think Democrats mind bringing airlines, sports leagues, and soda companies to their knees if necessary? Corporate America knows like any good hit man knows, they’d better finish the job or else.

Meanwhile, Kurt Schlichter infuses hope in wavering conservatives who are ready to give up in an article at Townhall.com entitled The Coming Backlash. Schlichter's point is that what you see happening is about power. Facts will not sway someone who wants power over you. Jonathon Swift said it best: "You can not reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

So, a criminal with a warrant who resists arrest meets up with an incompetent government employee who can’t tell a Glock from a taser, then there are Democrat riots, and what’s the result? You must be disarmed.

If you’re looking for logical logic, keep on looking. If you understand the logic of power, you came to the right place.

Facts don’t matter.

Evidence is racist.

2+2=4 means you’re a transphobe.

This is about power, people. Their power over you.

Understand that you can’t reason your way out of this. We’re not going to explain to our enemies why it’s inefficient, ineffective, or unAmerican to do the things they are trying to do. You might as well try to teach your terrier particle physics with a thick, juicy ribeye in sitting his bowl in front of him.

Tangent: Pardon me for potentially misgendering your pooch.

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For a while we had Trump to do the pushing, but with him in Florida we can now see others stepping up. Ron DeSantis is banning critical racism. Brian Kemp found some vertebrae and he’s defying Delta, Coke, and "Major League Chinaball" to demand election integrity. The other night, Tucker Carlson charged into the “replacement theory” ambush where we are not supposed to say what the Democrats explicitly say, which is that they intend to import pliable foreign peasants to replace American citizens at the ballot box (of course, sensible Latinos had other ideas, coming around to Trump significantly in 2020). The garbage media and establishment announced that this fact must not be spoken and Tucker spoke the hell out of it.

The backlash begins.

so, I am just one guy, with very little power. I am like a 1 watt lamp. But I do what I can, where I can. I changed my phone to Patriot Mobil, I refuse to buy Coca-Cola. I will never fly again on either Delta or United. I know, the corporations are shaking in their bathroom slippers. But imagine if 30% of the people refused to buy Coke products? What if 30% of the people refused to use Delta or United Airlines? What if 30% of the people refused to use Verizon, and instead switched to Patriot Mobile? These are all doable. Then if more parents began getting on their school boards about curriculum issues like Critical Race Theory, what difference that would make?

Go read both articles.  They are both very good and tell us in different ways the pickle in which we find ourselves.