Call others Nazis, time to embrace your inner Fascist

Right now there’s no shortage of people calling everyone else a Nazi, a practice owed to hubris not to mention a sign of protesting too much rather than something remotely grounded in reality.

Like those who throw the word hate around like Cheerios at a breakfast brawl hoping some of it sticks, you have to wonder about the sanity of people obsessed with slandering others hoping to make themselves look good.

Fascism only looks like fascism when you’re standing outside of it, or looking back at it. When you are in it, fascism looks like “normality,” like “reality,” like “just the way it is.”

OK, this isn’t the fascism of the 20th Century we talking about here, not Mussolini’s National Fascist Party or Hitler’s NSDAP or Francoist fascism or any other kind of organized fascist movement or party.

No, this type is more insidious.

Its propaganda network never sleeps, nor is there any real way to escape its constant emotional and ideological conditioning.

This is primarily how propaganda works, it is there to represent “normality” it’s power’s way of letting us know what we must believe, how we should behave, and who our official enemies are.

Its purpose isn’t to mislead or deceive; it’s an edict, a command, an ideological model … to which we are all expected to conform. Conform to this ideological model, and one is rewarded, or at least not punished. Deviate from it, and suffer the consequences.

The rise of self-appointed gatekeepers’ all over social media shows how effective this propaganda machine is; it’s literally trial by peers who adopt the posture of agitated birds in their determination to peck those with dissenting views into line.

Revealing it’s is a question of obedience, not a question of truth.

Ironically, it is those who are not acquainted with their Inner Fascists who deny they have one who are usually the first to make a big public show of loudly denouncing “fascism,” brandishing their “anti-fascist” bona fides, accusing other people of being “fascists,” and otherwise desperately projecting their Inner Fascists onto those they hate, and want to silence, if not exterminate.

This is one of the hallmarks of repressed Inner Fascism … this compulsion to control what other people think, this desire for complete ideological conformity, this tendency, not to argue with, but rather, to attempt to destroy anyone who disagrees with or questions one’s beliefs.

We all know people who behave this way and if you don’t, odds are, you one of them.

Getting to Grips with Fascism of the Past

Apart from stereotypical images of goose-stepping Nazis saluting and waving flags we don’t recognize what fascism looks like.

We learned about it through the prism of the frenzied Twentieth Century but what’s interesting is political analysis's don’t agree on what constitutes fascism, it’s one of those iffy, hard to pin down words, apparently.

The Left-Right wing paradigm first appeared as an idea rooted in political science in the late Nineteenth century, honing in on the theme that humans are naturally divided politically along polar- opposite ideological lines.

To many in the Twentieth Century the ideologies of Communism and Fascism were diametrically opposed, with the Nazis heralded as far right and Communists far left in the political spectrum.

Here’s the kicker, if advanced Capitalism is understood as just a hop, skip and jump en route to Communism, making both different sides of the same coin, you can say ditto for Fascism and Communism.

As Fascism blurs the line between Government and big business creating huge conflicts of interest and abuse of power,, it becomes a tool for elites to consolidate their stranglehold nationally and globally, and just like Italian communist, Antonio Gramsci alluded; once the invisible but vital dividing lines between government, business and civil society are no more, its game over, which is where we are right now.

Ever wondered why it’s called ‘the grid’ or why everyone has to be on it, because making participation optional means not everyone can be counted and herded which doesn’t gel in a system where full spectrum dominance is the goal.

For a more vivid picture compare the idea of the grid to the analogy of a Spider’s web to get a better understanding of how a trap works.

A cursory comparison of Fascism and Communism reveal them both sharing similar traits like authoritarianism and collectivism, that’s just for starters.

The trouble is we’ve been conditioned to see each as incompatible and mutually exclusive and go along with it because we’re too lazy to do some digging and prefer simple, off-pat answers to complex questions.

British scientist Bertrand Russell couldn’t understand, or maybe he did but wasn’t telling, why a Nazi Scientific Dictatorship was regarded as a no-no but its Soviet equivalent wasn’t even entertained.

Russell was implying there’s no difference between the one dictatorship or the other meaning people were either blind or too tolerant of the latter.

One reason was back in the day, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed western academics and intellectuals flocked to conferences on international Communism in the then Soviet Union, in droves.

The Left Right paradigm is bogus, says who?

The Atlantic reckons the clash between different ideas in the left-right paradigm is bogus; it’s really all about divisions between social identities based on class, region, race and gender.

The author of the article is dishonest, he’s just plugging a rehashed form of identity politics or cultural Marxism by another name, surely he can’t be so stupid to imagine Identity Politics isn’t also an idea, and ideas are dreamed up by people mostly from institutions, the point being ideas don’t manufacture themselves.

True he calls himself a philosopher which helps explain why he’s being fanciful instead of rational.

Those pushing identity politics versus those opposed does constitute a clash of ideas, like it or not.

There’s no hard and fast rule there HAS to be two sets of ideas to a conflict, most of all it should be obvious people don’t naturally align along identity groupings, its a construct.

The definition of a construct sums it up well;

an idea or theory containing various conceptual elements, typically one considered to be subjective and not based on empirical evidence.

The logic is clear-cut and all very elementary, Watson.