Posted on 01/19/2021 7:17:47 AM PST by Kaslin
In my last column, I offered a handy, pocket definition of fascism as exhibiting three main traits: extreme nationalism, authoritarianism, and a state-run economy. Basically, I was laying a foundation for this essay, in which I argue that the Left’s response to COVID-19 is literally fascist.
Several readers wrote to suggest additional markers of fascism, like disdain for individual rights, obsession with security, suppression of information, and glorification of the military. Most of those are either subsumed under my original list or else characteristic of all totalitarian regimes, or both. After all, fascists have no monopoly on nationalism or authoritarianism. Just ask the ChiComs.
Perhaps that’s because fascism is close kin to both socialism and communism, the third of Karl Marx’s hideous ideological offspring. Like those other evil –isms, it is based on a collectivist approach to governance that puts the interests of the state ahead of those of the citizen. That, of course, is in direct conflict with the liberal (in the old-fashioned sense of the word) belief in the sanctity and sovereignty of the individual, which is the foundation of Western culture going back at least to ancient Greece.
In a fascist economy, however, rather than owning the means of production (as in communist countries), the state “merely” controls the means of production by dictating to the ostensible “owners” what they can and can’t do. Essentially, under fascism, the government picks economic winners and losers. Authoritarianism then arises naturally from the fact that people don’t like being dictated to, as is historically the case with all forms of leftist state control. Leaders can exercise unchecked power over an economy — which is to say, over people — only, ultimately, by force.
Using my definition, then, under which the American and European left meet at least two of the three criteria — a lust for state control over the economy and a penchant for authoritarianism — their response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a textbook example of fascism at work.
First, as implemented by Democrat governors across the nation — and as promised by our newly-installed president — leftist COVID-19 policy has been undeniably authoritarian, with forced lockdowns, mask mandates, church closures, limits on family gatherings, etc. In fact, in many locales (although thankfully not where I live), those measures have crossed the line from merely authoritarian to actually totalitarian. Witness the fines, arrests, and calls for neighbors and family members to rat each other out — all conditions you would expect to find in a communist or fascist dictatorship but not in the United States of America.
But of course, it’s all for our own good, right? Maybe. Personally, I’m not convinced any of those extreme measures actually have much benefit — and the real science appears to bear me out, as the highly-credible, impeccably-credentialed authors of “The Great Barrington Declaration” make clear. Even the leftist media suddenly appears to be at least entertaining the idea that lockdowns might not work. Hmmm. Why the sudden about-face?
But I digress. More to the point, everything dictators do has always been “for the greater good,” at least according to them — although the millions slaughtered as a result of their “benign” policies in Nazi Germany, the USSR, China, Cambodia, and Cuba might disagree.
Beyond that, the left’s COVID-19 policy is demonstrably fascist in that it exerts government control over our economy, decreeing which businesses can stay open and for how long, which ones must close, how many customers they can serve, and when. Essentially, under the guise of protecting us from a disease most of us won’t get, much less die from, left-leaning pols and unelected bureaucrats are gleefully sorting out economic winners and losers.
And who are the big winners in the COVID-19 sweepstakes? Why, those businesses whose leaders have made it clear that they are totally onboard with leftist rule: Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Walmart. The losers, meanwhile, are small businesses that tend to be more conservative and in any case don’t have the clout to promote favored policies.
Funny how that works, isn’t it?
The idiot author has no idea of what “Fascism” is, as defined by the guy who invented the term. What an ignorant moron.
The list of fascist markers is the erroneous, and common, backwards-engineered answers. Typically lists of “what is fascism?” are made by looking at nazi Germany and listing what they see.
The central concept of fascism as defined by it’s inventor Mussolini is a type of socialism where corporate power and state power become one, and that the individual exists to serve. That is the very definition of conditions here in the USA today.
Everything else is the fruit of that poisonous idea.
Please watch and read the following.
The CDC, NIH, WHO have suppressed an effective early treatment of covid. You need to petition your governors to fix this. Ivermectin has been on the table since the first tests early this year from Australia. Dr Cory has testified before the Senate twice now. Also attached is latest from India and EVMS Dr Marik.
To the Governors of this country, get your heads out of your ass and fix this... The people in DC will not.
Full Dr Cory Senate, Dec2020
https://vimeo.com/490351508
How India did it...
https://trialsitenews.com/an-unlikely-nation-is-kicking-this-pandemic-guess-which-then-why/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
EVMS Protocols (by Dr Marik)
https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID-19_Protocol.pdf
https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/Marik-Covid-Protocol-Summary.pdf
If you can put this in front of your governor, please do so...
I am puting this out as much as I can, my version of an echo, feel free to copy at will...
Now from the NIH, on 14 Jan, need more studies...
https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/statement-on-ivermectin/
Going to court to get treated with ivermectin
And his “extreme nationalism” has become a truism that is a rhetorical trick that is simply aimed at us. If you wave the flag, love America, or God forbid think America should put her own interests first ahead of foreign nations and cabals... you are a FASCIST.
This twists Mussolini’s concept of the State. Italy wasn’t an example of particularly extreme nationalism, in his thinking the State was to be above all in the mind of its citizen, but his sick ideas had nothing to do with the ration self interest that Trump insisted upon for America.
Did anyone here ever hear Trump say that the state should be the focal point of our lives? No, he championed the individual. The hallmark of Trump’s policy was REDUCING state power to free the individual to do as they will.
The author means well, but needs to read up.
By the way, for extra back-engineering fun, Mussolini’s street thugs all wore black.
Thank you for that post!!! Reading. Great info!!!
I have my 1.87% apple flavored ivermectin paste. Someone check my math.
Dose is 2mg/kg
For a 200 lb person, that’s 91 kg. Right?
91 x 2 = 182 mg pure ivermectin per dose.
182 ÷ 0.0187 (1.87% paste) = 9700 mg = 9.7 grams?!? Seems way too much.
Is that right?!?
“If you wave the flag, love America, or God forbid think America should put her own interests first ahead of foreign nations and cabals... you are a FASCIST.”
Antifa calls Everyone who disagrees with their tactics “Fascist!” It’s like if I say I’m against Puppy Killers (”AntiPuK”), get to call anyone I don’t like “Puppy Killer!” and beat them.
I’m going to start a AntiPuK movement.
Dose is 0.2 mg/kg
“Dose is 0.2 mg/kg”
Thank you! Ok, off by 10x. Dose is about 1g. Still sounds high. Entire tube is 6g, enough for a horse. Literally.
There should be markings or indentations on the plunger based on weight
Thanks. I guess I figured that for human use as a prophylactic, the dose/kg would be less than for actual treatment of a disease in a horse. Like HCQ—lower doses are OK prophylactically than for acute treatment.
The protocol should have just said take it as if you were a horse, based on your weight.
Stamp once for “agree.”
What extreme nationalism? They’re a bunch of one-worlders.
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