Posted on 10/17/2021 3:58:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
I debated whether to include “medical” in this headline. After all, fascism is fascism, right? It hardly requires a modifier.
Moreover, fascism and the medical profession share a long and sordid history. During the 1930s, German doctors joined the Nazi party at four times the rate of other professionals. Among the Nazis’ most heinous crimes against humanity were their medical experiments on human subjects—atrocities that gave rise to the Nuremberg Code, which states that “the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.”
From that international treaty comes our modern notion of “informed consent”—something we’re now ignoring in our push to force-vaccinate everyone regardless of age, health status, prior immunity, or conscience. But I digress.
In a sense, then, the term “medical fascism” is redundant. Nevertheless, I thought it might be helpful to identify the purported rationale for today’s attempted fascist takeover: We must surrender our freedom, we are told, for the good of society, to “combat the virus.”
Our oppressors don’t even bother denying it. They simply frame their tyranny as a matter of “public health.” That none of the draconian, liberty-crushing measures foisted upon us have been effective in “combatting the virus” doesn’t enter into the conversation. We must simply do as we’re told, or else.
This is not, as some on the right have argued, communism or socialism. It is straightforward fascism. That’s easily seen when we compare what’s going on in the US today with what was happening in Germany in the 1930s.
Virulent authoritarianism. One of the scariest things about European Fascism is the speed at which it came to dominate everyday life. Within a few years, you were either all in for “the State” or you were its enemy.
A similar dynamic has emerged in the United States. First, there were “two weeks to flatten the curve.” Then we had more lockdowns, closing small businesses and shuttering churches, followed by additional unconstitutional mandates.
Now we have an Attorney General, at the behest of the President, labelling parents “domestic terrorists” for daring to stand up against corrupt schoolboards. Citizens are encouraged to be “good Germans” and inform on each other; the FBI, like plainclothes Gestapo, is to be the enforcement arm.
Just as it was in 1930s Germany, the message is clear: Shut up and comply, or we will destroy you.
The Nexus of Big Government and Big Business. A key marker of fascism, as opposed to communism or socialism, is the unholy alliance of public and private sectors. Unlike its ideological cousins, fascism leaves production ostensibly to private industrialists—as long as they help the government further its oppressive agenda. The reward, for them, is great wealth plus a seat at the table of power.
This dynamic was apparent early in our pandemic response, when the government literally chose economic winners and losers. Those deemed “essential” did fine working from home even as unessential peons lost their livelihoods. Big Tech reaped fantastic profits, as did Amazon and Walmart, while small businesses were plowed under like dry Okie wheat fields.
More recently, we’ve seen Big Tech colluding with the Biden* administration to suppress information and Big Pharma enjoying an historic windfall for pushing “vaccines” that are neither as safe nor as effective as advertised. Once again, the favored corporations, the government’s partners in oppression, prosper. Everyone else suffers.
Book burning. Speaking of suppressing information, that’s another hallmark of fascist regimes. In 1930s Germany, it meant burning “dangerous” books. The modern equivalent, in our digital age, involves removing people from social media platforms for saying anything that diverges from the official government/elite narrative, even if it’s true. Especially if it’s true. As the inimitable el gato malo says, it has become axiomatic: Since Twitter only bans the truth, whatever Twitter bans must therefore be true.
The point of this modern-day book-burning, like its Nazi predecessor, is to ensure that people hear only the approved messages. Of course, another term for “approved message” is “propaganda”—something at which fascists also excel.
“Othering.” Finally, the Nazis become infamous for identifying one group as the cause of all societal ills. For them, it was Jews, who were blamed for the nation’s economic woes as well as--and this is key--public health challenges. Posters from that era depict Jews as bug-like creatures spreading typhoid and other diseases.
Today, it is the misnamed “anti-vaxxers” being “othered.” They are the reason we can’t get past this pandemic, not technocratic incompetence or the fact that “viruses gonna virus.” They, not stunning government malfeasance, are responsible for runaway inflation, dismal employment numbers, and a looming recession.
The only item missing from the standard list of fascist traits is nationalism. But that is only because the fascists, having seen the light, are all globalists now.
One of the main differences between fascism and communism, in the mid-19thcentury, is that the latter sought world domination while the former was more inwardly focused (although that didn’t stop them from seeking to conquer their neighbors).
It turns out, though, that pure communism doesn’t work, because governments are woefully inept at controlling the means of production. They either go broke or adopt the fascist model, in which some “private enterprise” is encouraged so long as it serves the state.
China is the poster child for this evolution. And although we might come at it from the opposite end of the political spectrum, are we really that far behind in terms of elitism, cronyism, and oppression?
Thankfully, hopeful signs of pushback have emerged: the Southwest Airlines non-strike strike; the growing success of conservative media outlets like Townhall and The Daily Wire; the rising popularity of covid-policy skeptics like Alex Berenson, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Peter McCullough, and el gato malo; and the refusal of many parents to be intimidated by their local commissars—I mean, school boards.
That’s a start. But if we wish to turn the tide, and escape full-on fascism, we will need a lot more of that sort of thing, and soon.
Very intelligent article. Spot on. Thanks for posting.
Nazism could not have succeeded without the active participation of millions of everyday people.
They live around you, work with you, maybe even share a family tree with you.
And they want to make you out to be the bad guy.
The question is “why?”.
Would it be unreasonable for me to speculate it’s an attempt to get rid of the middle class? Then again, the question is “why?”.
And for whose benefit?
/rhetorical
radical liberal progressives like Nazism could not succeeded without the active participation of millions of everyday people.
How true we see it in our everyday lives the cancer runs deep and is terminal
...and the cure then was the United States of America.
...and the cure now?
The same as last time.
The only question remaining is how we achieve it.
A big clue is that they are not asking people living on welfare or illegal aliens crossing the border to get the mRNA jab.
They want welfare families to have LOTS of welfare babies.
It’s called “engorge the lumpenproletariat” and has been in their playbook for decades. Popularized, so to speak, by Frantz Fanon, one of the early proponents of pan-African Marxism. I can’t imagine his work not being an influence on Frank Marshall Davis.
The United States of Americans
It is the banality of evil that is the scariest thing.
It is happening here...now.
I read Franz Fanon’s”The Wretched of the Earth” many moons ago when I was young and foolish lumpenliberal, and can well imagine that it influenced Davis, and his buddy 0bama.
The book has probably become required reading for students attending our nation’s universities, and is most likely proudly displayed on the bookshelf of many a currently serving member of the DEMONRAT party.
Meanwhile, the fascist state rewards China, Iran and real terrorist entities since they are useful allies with shared enemies.
Health care folks are inherently liberal and are trained to go along and practice “evidence based” medicine nowadays, which is code for we don’t deviate from what the “research”‘shows …. In other words, don’t dare try to do anything that doesn’t go along with the pre-approved guidelines put out by God knows who …. It’s institutionalized group think.
Physicians are technicians. General medicine today is a dehumanized and strictly defined manufacturing process. Consider the average doctor visit today at a group practice belonging to a large hospital system.
1) You arrive at the admission desk. You give your name and last four digits of your “social”. Your temperature is checked. You are asked for your insurance card and possibly a couple of other administrative questions. You are then told to be seated and wait to be called.
2) A nurse opens a door and calls your name. You are admitted to the area with examining rooms. The nurse weighs you and then escorts you to an examining room. She sits at a computer and asks a series of questions which pop up on the screen including what meds you are taking and what pharmacy you use. She or he takes your vitals (blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate) and enters them into the computer. The nurse leaves.
3) A few minutes, hours or whatever lated the doctor enters. She briefly looks at the data on the screen. The doctor may ask why you are here. She may look down your throat or into your ears. She may listen to your heart and lungs and may feel your lymph nodes in the neck or abdomen. Exam over. The doctor prescribes some drugs (keys prescription into the computer) and may tell you to drink fluids or give other lifestyle directions. In some cases blood work is ordered which is taken in the lab in the same building and you return to the exam room to wait for the doctor to come back in with the results. In at least 90% of the cases you are sent home with a prescription for an expensive drug.
The diagnosis is by the book, likely provided to the doctor through the AI software on the computer screen he is looking at. The physician provides no insight based on his/her experience and training. The engagement between the patient and physician takes less than 10 minutes. No wholistic evaluation is done of the patient’s health. No alternatives to Big Pharma drug treatment is considered (i.e. diet, vitamins, exercise).
The fact no insight from the doctor’s experience is desired in today’s one size fits all medicine is evidenced by the fact physician’s assistants and nurse practitioners are replacing MD’s for routine office visits in the Big Hospital clinics.
Medicine for the masses has become an efficient machine, providing standardized care which probably works for 80% of the patients. The 20% for whom the mandated course of action does not work are pretty much screwed unless they can find an old school physician who has practical experience, an inquiring mind, creative thinking skills, empathy for the patient and is willing to spend more than the allotted 10 minutes with the patient. Those MD’s are rare and becoming scarcer everyday.
As I suggested on the other forum; if the government wants to make all abortion legal, if they want us to pay for it—— why don’t WE attach conditions. All illegal aliens get mandated abortions. All welfare recipients get mandated abortions. All people accepting government subsidies get mandated abortions.
See how that flies.
Not going there. Dont GAS.
“In the mid-19th century” (near the end) should read “in the mid-20th century.” Fascism was invented in the early 20th century.
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