by Oui
Fri Oct 25th, 2024 at 12:50:14 PM EST
See my earlier diaries making the right call on fascism inside the United States of America as progressive bloggers believe neo-fascism originates in evil Russia. The European Union proves otherwise.
THE EU AND THE WARNING SIGNS OF FASCISM
Extremist rightwing terror more prevalent in the West than either Al Qaeda or Islamic State terror attacks. The Untied States and UK have used both groups as proxies to fight its foreign wars as mercenaries to the present day ... ask Erdogan in Türkiye.
The EU and the Warning Signs of Fascism | Mint Press - 12 Dec. 2018 |
Things are spiraling out of control in Europe, faster than many predicted. Outside of Brexit, there is a strong anti-EU feeling in Hungary, Spain, Italy, Greece and France. The EU is in danger of crumbling, and people afraid of losing power are prone to extreme acts of dictatorial control.
How long before the EU truly becomes the authoritarian force that people from both ends of the political spectrum have always feared?
THE EU DEFENCE FORCE
Earlier this year, the EU voted to "punish" one of its own members, Hungary, for the internal policies of its elected government. To be clear about this - whatever you think of Viktor Orban, he was elected by the people of Hungary. He is their legally recognised democratic leader. Hungary voted for him - in contrast, Hungary did NOT vote for any of the 448 MEPs who supported the motion, posed by Dutch MEP Judith Sargentini, that:
The Hungarian people deserve better...They deserve freedom of speech, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice and equality, all of which are enshrined in the European treaties."
Note that "democracy" is not included on that list. "Tolerance", "justice" and "equality", but not democracy. A Freudian slip, perhaps.
The European Parliament vote was, itself, a corrupt nonsense - one in which abstentions were disregarded so the 2/3rds majority could be reached. Forcing through a bill that, essentially, calls for a change of regime in Hungary via:
.. appropriate measures to restore inclusive democracy, the rule of law and respect for fundamental rights in Hungary"
One suggested punishment - "The Nuclear Option" - is a loss of voting rights. Hungary would still be a member of the EU, would still have to pay into the EU, would still have to obey all EU laws and regulations, but would no longer have a say in what those laws were.
The 12 Early Warning Signs of Fascism
Mahua Moitra's Speech Not Plagiarised, Zee News' Claims Untrue | The Quint - 4 July 2019 |
The TMC parliamentarian's speech was not plagiarised, rather she had referenced it to an article written by Longman.
SCOTUS Grants the Executive Dictatorial Powers
The Bi-Partisan Enabling of Presidential Power:
A Review of David Driesen's The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power (2021)
"That same cloud-capt, fire-breathing Spectre of Democracy; incalculable, which is enveloping the world!"
Thus Thomas Carlyle, in his famous three volumes on The French Revolution in 1837, described the death of King Louis XV, a "hollow phantasmagory," a foreshadowing of a world turned upside down. Carlyle was ambivalent about the revolution, but many of his nineteenth-century readers feared populist chaos. In America, Andrew Jackson had just finished his second term. Many Americans celebrated his populism; many loathed his demagoguery. In the same year, Queen Victoria began her reign, notable for its stability, by contrast to the revolutions that soon would sweep Europe in the 1840s.
Just as in 1789 and in 1837, today we are haunted by similar polarizing fears. The left fears the specter of dictatorship, as David Driesen titled his book. The right fears the specter of sans-culottes democracy and its Reign of Terror. Ironically, conservative scholars and judges have turned from democratic "specter" to royal "scepter": they have embraced a monarchist unitary model for the presidency, ostensibly as originalism, but it is really just cherry-picking from Blackstone and the English crown (even from Mad King George III).
This review will summarize some recent unitary originalism scholarship that turn out to be royalism, not originalism.
Beyond Religious Tolerance
What has become of the progressive blog community in the “Free World” …
Posted in FrontPage article
There’s an issue I feel we are all dodging right now and we need to confront.
Multi ethnic/cultural/religious democracy does not work. In fact it cannot work.
Human nature is what it is. Which means roughly 40% of the population is biologically not capable of living in a society where other religions and cultures exist. It causes them intense psychological and emotional stress and pain. Which means there is no way to actually deal with issues related to the economy, class, foreign policy, science, climate, or rights unless there is a strict mono culture.
The moment you have a multi cultural/religious/ethnic society you must toss out democracy. Because then the race is on to either a right wing fascist authoritarian society or a left wing authoritarian society. There is no happy ending.
“The West” is imploding because immigration, loss of Christian dominance, and advancement of rights for non Christians hit that critical point. So democracy and freedom are no longer on the table. We are in a cold civil war and one side is going to win. It will be the first to setup a brutal authoritarian regime to enforce their world view and stomp out the cultural, religion, values, and rights of the other side. There is no way to avoid this now.
David Frum called this years ago. If conservatives can’t win democratically they won’t give up conservatism they will give up democracy. From Leonard Leo to The Heritage Foundation to SCOTUS they are all in a religious civil war. Either we are getting wiped out and our view points criminalized with jail or they are. We cannot vote our way out of this, debate our way out of this, or anything like that. Someone is going into camps and prisons for speaking and existing and it is us or them.
That’s the reality we need to face. The other reality as that as a capitalist society the fastest way to obliterate the other side and make sure we aren’t the ones in the camp is to give the uber wealthy everything they want. We are getting an autocracy and an oligarchy no matter what our diversity has sealed that fate. The questions is who gets to keep their culture and social values and who is dead or in camps. Choose now. Because choosing not to go after them and be even more brutal than they are is loading yourselves onto the trains.
And yes, stopping this also means de-christianization through both legal and violent means.
I’ve been all over the world due to work and I know exactly where we are. It’s over. Even if Harris wins if we don’t race to crush them eventually they will win and they will wipe us out.
Preaching intolerance and Civil War … these guys haven’t got a clue. Living in an ultra-violent bubble where fear is the norm. As I predicted half a century ago … the “empire” crumbles, or rather implodes.
Anthropological Race Classification of Europeans 1839-1939
Fascism is often regarded as the almost unavoidable consequence of the radicalization of European nationalisms; or simply as a 20th century outcome of a 19th-century form of ethnic nationalism that became increasingly chauvinistic and xenophobic.
Historians of fascism were not the first to point this out. Some of the first historians of nationalism in the 1930s, and particularly during the 1940s, established a typology of the idea of nation and the development of nationalism in Europe that was strongly influenced by what they had observed in the evolution of contemporary fascist movements on the Old Continent.
Fascism was thus seen as the result of a form of nationalism that contained the ’seeds’ of conflict and exclusion from its very inception. What would later be considered a well-established scholarly distinction between the ethnic ’Eastern European’ and the civic ’Western European’ versions of nationalism, was elaborated in the turmoil of war and destruction provoked by fascism itself.
Manifest Destiny, slavery, racism, exceptionalism, religious fanaticism, disgracing rules, the US Constitution and International Law.
Decline of American capitalism absent social safety net as in EU social-democracies
Shrinking capitalism: components of a new political economy paradigm | 8 Nov 2021 |
The climate emergency, rising inequality, and pandemic diffusion have raised the question: for what purpose is capitalism fit? Implementing new policies and institutions to meet these challenges will require a realignment of political forces on a scale similar to that achieved by neoliberal policies and ideas over the past four decades. We suggest that a successful new paradigm must provide the basis of a dynamic and sustainable economy and be constituted by a synergistic set of ethical commitments, economic models, emblematic policies, and a new vernacular economics by which people understand and seek to improve their livelihoods and futures. We illustrate these four components by reference to the classical liberal, Keynesian-social democratic, and neoliberal paradigms. Using an expanded space for policies and institutions that integrates markets, states, and civil society, we propose elements of a new paradigm, including diminished space for capitalism and greater equality not only of economic endowments but also of dignity and voice.
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Demographic structure of society- race and ethnicity | Khan Academy- 2014 |
Most Racially Diverse Countries
[work in progress ... ⚠️ ]
