Putin's Rasputin: The Dangerous Mind of Aleksandr Dugin

[YorkRd]

Putin’s Rasputin: The Dangerous Mind of Aleksandr Dugin

While world democracies squabble, Putin and his deranged philosopher are plotting to bring about an autocratic world order.

I recently read a report from Pew research which showed that about a third of US Republicans have a ‘favourable view’ of Vladimir Putin, and have confidence in his handling of world affairs.
One need not dig too deeply to work out how that shift has occurred over the last four years. Let’s start with Trump’s inexplicable (not to mention unbelievably creepy) man-crush on the Russian autocrat. From his eagerness to bring Putin back into the G8, to his regular praise and support of Putin, all the way down to recent reports that Trump knew of Russia’s campaign to pay bounties to terrorist groups in Afghanistan to kill US soldiers, Trump continues with his non-stop praise of Putin and the way he runs Russia. “I respect Putin,” Trump said in November. “He’s a strong leader.”

[link:https://medium.com/intelligence-challenged/putins-rasputin-the-dangerous-mind-of-aleksandr-dugin-d02290ba6045|

[Irish_Dem]

1. The GOP agrees with Putin's autocratic world order plan.

That is what they want here in the US as well.

Edit to add: I think this is a must read article.

[KS Toronado]

10. GQP was ready to crown a king, Joe stopped 'em.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Yes, but the GOP is now getting control over the US voting apparatus.

The goal is to get permanent total control and access to US wealth.
Like Russia.

They will give their base white christian minority rule.

[KS Toronado]

12. So many things in the voting rights bill

would scatter their plans into the wind when they lose at the ballot box. Upcoming midterms will be the
most critical one ever for Democracy. If we control both Houses during Biden's last 2 years, we'll finally
see fair elections going forward and should see Rs in the dustbin of history for years to come.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Securing voting rights is critical to saving our democracy.

It will make it harder for the PutinGOP to steal elections.

[YorkRd]

2. Julius Evola another scary mastermind of authoritarianism

Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola (Italian: [ˈɛːvola];[1] 19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974), better known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher, poet, and painter whose esoteric worldview featured antisemitic conspiracy theories[2][3] and the occult. He has been described as a "fascist intellectual",[4] a "radical traditionalist",[5] "antiegalitarian, antiliberal, antidemocratic, and antipopular",[6] and as "the leading philosopher of Europe's neofascist movement".[6]

Evola is popular in fringe circles, largely because of his metaphysical, magical, and supernatural beliefs – including belief in ghosts, telepathy, and alchemy[7] – and his traditionalism. He termed his philosophy "magical idealism". Many of Evola's theories and writings were centered on his hostility toward Christianity and his idiosyncratic mysticism, occultism, and esoteric religious studies,[8][9][10][page needed] and this aspect of his work has influenced occultists and esotericists. Evola also justified male domination over women as part of a purely patriarchal society, an outlook stemming from his traditionalist views on gender, which demanded women stay in or revert to what he saw as their traditional gender roles, where they were completely subordinate to male authority.[11][12]

According to the scholar Franco Ferraresi, "Evola's thought can be considered one of the most radical and consistent anti-egalitarian, anti-liberal, anti-democratic, and anti-popular systems in the 20th century". It is a singular, though not necessarily original, blend of several schools and traditions, including German idealism, Eastern doctrines, traditionalism, and the all-embracing Weltanschauung of the interwar conservative revolutionary movement with which Evola had a deep personal involvement.[13] Historian Aaron Gillette described Evola as "one of the most influential fascist racists in Italian history".[14]


[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Evola|

[The Jungle 1]

3. puketin and trump must be stopped.

I think we are doing just that.

[Lonestarblue]

4. Trump had his own Rasputins.

Steven Miller is just plain evil and put a lot of crazy ideas in Trump’s head, which was already filled with crazy ideas. Steve Bannon was another with outsized influence on Trump. He has spoken and written about a new world order where a modern-day Crusade takes place for Christians to eliminate all of Islam. You need a world dictator to order such a war. Whether he believes this nonsense is moot because he uses it to push authoritarianism in Western countries.

Evil is walking in plain sight in our country and others. If we don’t confront it, it may well take over the world. Putin is evil incarnate. He needs to be stopped, not only for Ukrainians but as a lesson for other would-be dictators who think they can simply take whatever they want.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Have they polled gated communities?

I'd bet Putin support tips 96%

[jaxexpat]

7. At least 75%.

In any case, that's a remarkable phenomenon.

[Buckeyeblue]

6. Honestly, he sounds like Pat Robertson

And all of the rest of what I like to call the "New Christians." They hide their hate behind the constitutional guise of religious freedom. But really what they want is white male supremecy.

What is it with fascists and their obsession with the occult?

But Dugin sounds like he wants end times. Maybe Putin is open to that idea.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

8. Maybe the GQP

Should review Russian gun laws. Before pledging their devotion.

[LastDemocratInSC]

9. I thing that Dugin is one of Bannon's gurus.

[YorkRd]

15. Bannon and Julius Evola

ROME — Those trying to divine the roots of Stephen K. Bannon’s dark and at times apocalyptic worldview have repeatedly combed over a speech that Mr. Bannon, President Trump’s ideological guru, made in 2014 to a Vatican conference, where he expounded on Islam, populism and capitalism.

But for all the examination of those remarks, a passing reference by Mr. Bannon to an esoteric Italian philosopher has gone little noticed, except perhaps by scholars and followers of the deeply taboo, Nazi-affiliated thinker, Julius Evola.

“The fact that Bannon even knows Evola is significant,” said Mark Sedgwick, a leading scholar of Traditionalists at Aarhus University in Denmark.


[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/world/europe/bannon-vatican-julius-evola-fascism.html|

[crickets]

14. K&R for visibility.