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Edited on Fri Aug-14-09 01:19 PM by Grinchie
I am in agreement with the explanation given by Wilhelm Reich on the Rise of Nazism, which was caused by many things imposed by the Social structure and climate of the time (Great Depression). He points out that sociologists always tried to focus on a single point, which was Hitler, to explain fascism and how it was able to ignite such loyalty and group membership in the masses.
If you look at what Hitler proposed, it went against what the majority was looking for, but they went along with him any way because the modern democratic political system was inattentive to the needs of the people, and had been so for decades. They had just become fed up with being politically impotent for so long.
Hitler was just a symbol used by a slick group of people that used Freudian theories of Human Behavior to manipulate, propagandize, and gather membership through the natural mechanisms of Social Structure that had been cultured though authoritarian family life, religious dogma, the repression of human sexuality, etc, etc, etc.
Don't look now, but America is currently afflicted with the same mass plague, caused by many of the same things that were occurring during the first Great Depression. We see the Mob trying to appear larger than they really are, resorting to intimidation and violence to stifle dissent. We see large numbers of distressed, unsatisfied people that realize that Bush used them up and cast them aside for the sake of the Corporations on both sides of the political fence. The anger of being politically irrelevant in regards to the bailouts, war spending, and healthcare are only icing on the cake on the path towards the total lack of respect for the Government. And finally, the Propaganda machines churning out a confused, frightened and Jumbled message that people recognize as bullshit.
Both sides are trying to use the same tired old tools to shape opinion, but people are exhausted and are unwilling to respond the same way anymore.
Obama, on the one side, is using a weak, conciliatory message trying to defend very little meaningful accomplishments from the overwhelming evidence that he has unequivocably sold out his administration to the DLC Corporatists and the Federal Reserve. The tiny things he has done do not have the weight to counter the frustration the country feels when they see criminals like Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld and Gonzales thumb their noses at accountability for their crimes, and make no mistake, they are crimes. We see it in Obama's appointment of Monsanto insiders to the USDA, and little meaningful reform or review of the frightening spread of GMO, which they are using us as Guinea Pigs in long term feeding trials.
The Conservatives, or the real unidentifiable collection of pro fascist Corporate greed mongers is using irrational fear and incitement to inflame the millions of pissed off people into action, and they seem to be succeeding. They don't need to be rational, because the fear and anger is so great, that the little man will go along with anything that appears to have some political voice. The widespread coverage of the disruptive town hall behavior only reinforces the idea for these type, and it makes them think they are being effective.
We have a huge number of Americans that are afflicted with what Reich calls "Psychic Plague". Our society depends on it to keep attention off the hypocrisy of a Government that boasts of Freedom and Peace, yet maintains the most lethal Military force in the world, while at the same time resorting to covert Black Ops to destabilize Government that stand in the way fo Golbalized Corporatism. We have a Hollywood media machine as astute as what Hitler used to market germany between 1933 - 1938, but Americans see that it doesn't respect the broad stroke of what America is all about. It's propagande, and very successful, but it is lacking in truth and honesty when it comes to our millions of Homeless and poor. It rarely, if ever shows the greed and uncompassionate goal of wringing more labor out of fewer workers for less pay, and never shows the plight caused by industries disappearing overnight.
There are many comparisons to be made in today's society to the rise of fascism but the focus by Rush and Beck are diversions away from the real problems in order to stir up the same misguided feelings in their followers. It is hate speech at it's core, and the common man that has no education in history, believes that he is immune from the mass plague or propaganda, will subconsciously follow the group like a lemming. Who knows, he might get laid by some Ann Coulter looking fox! He is so impotent that he thinks militia's will solve the problems. It only goes to show that these people are out of ideas, and think a gun will help them. They don't have a clue that if they just stopped feeding the corporations by ceasing to consume their products, the entire system would collapse under it's own weight, and they would regain control. Gandhi was right, and that's why he was assasinated, because if people knew the power of organization for a common cause, the PTB would fail as quickly as Britain did in India. People don't realize how costly it is to pick up people that refuse to move, buy, or labor for an oppressor. They are so blinded by the pursuit of money that they are slaves to it, while ignoring the power it gives those with the money, which we all know is created out of thin air, and relies on belief to support, Since dollars are backed by nothing.
Obama is no Hitler, but I don't trust the DLC Corporate club at all. Corporations are Fascist organizations by nature, and they Loved what the Nazi's in Germany did for business until the fraud collapsed. The current administration has a very thin veneer of actually being "Democratic", but for the most part, it's the status quo, same as before, making the same mistakes, and the people are fed up.
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