Posted on 03/07/2023 9:21:42 PM PST by george76
Fascism involves government control, but not ownership, of the means of production. Private companies exist, but they’re simply arms of the government.
That’s pretty much how things work in America today, except that even functions traditionally government-performed in countries like Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy have been outsourced to private organizations.
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The Nazis’ program of Gleichschaltung rearranged everything to suit the party’s goals, with the supervision of party officials and government boards.
In America, on the other hand, the corporations that control the commanding heights of our national economy do it themselves, following the philosophy of environmental, social and governance investing.
Before ESG, they were supposed to run their companies for the benefit of shareholders, something required by their fiduciary obligations to the people who .. own the company.
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But under the ESG philosophy, they are supposed to run their companies for the benefit of “stakeholders” — who can be employees, customers, “the community” or pretty much anyone they want — and things like “social justice” and environmental preservation, buzzwords that let them do pretty much whatever they want.
In practice, they’re given guidance not by some political party or government board but by various nonprofit groups that aren’t really accountable to anyone but, oddly enough, all seem to espouse pretty much the same programs.
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People rely on 401(k) funds for their retirement savings. If managers can run those funds with goals other than maximizing customers’ returns, it’s basically a tax on retirees to fund the managers’ social goals.
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If you’re independent and self-employed, it’s harder to put the squeeze on you. If you work for a corporate boss who’s in the Democrats’ pocket, it’s much easier.
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This is Fascism for sure.
Many people ask how the Nazi’s convinced the German people to go along with their plans.
This is one of the ways they did it.
Yes, it was. “For the Greater Reich”.
Fascism involves government control, but not ownership.
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If true why do they want your guns freedom of speech what type of car you can own all electric homes your kids mind........................
Take names.
There WILL be a recogning.
There it is.
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