Still Free

Yeah, Mr. Smiley. Made it through the entire Trump presidency without being enslaved. Imagine that.

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Real Fascism and Definition Creep

Did this Google search on the word "fascism" just now and got the following top definition:
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. synonyms: authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, autocracy; More (in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice.
You'll note that this definition states that fascism is definitively "right wing".

Now when we get an actual authoritative definition of fascism we find:

a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government : very harsh control or authority
This is the definition I grew up with. It was clear then as it is now that a fascist system is not definitively "right wing". This "right wing" aspect is an example of definition creep. In this case it is a means by which leftists (who run Google, Wikipedia, Twitter and Facebook, the primary places where a large number of impressionable persons get their 'operating definitions" of things, seek to redefine terms to obscure their own behavior. Full definition of fascism by same authority:
often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
Lefty types zoom in on "nation" and "race" as the boogymen in the definition. Yet they do not "see" the bad in the "what they do" part of the definition: "centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader" and 'severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition" President Obama and his Justice [sic] Department has shown us the fascist nature of the sitting regime and indeed of the traitor filled Democratic Party.

The president sends out a "directive" telling schools what a female or male is in direct contradiction to science. The Justice [sic] Department threatens to punish those states and persons who do not act in accordance to such decrees and threatens economic sanctions. Businesses fall in line and also effect economic damages on those states and persons who object (dissent) from the dictates of the administration.

How exactly is this NOT fascism? Because they don't say "America First"?

Facebook openly works with the German (and who know who else) government in order to suppress speech that Merkel et-al do not approve of. If Facebook and it's American citizen and resident Mark Zuckerberg were actually interested in democracy and government by the consent of the people not only would he have refused to do such work on the behalf of Germany but he would also not approve of the following:

The admin of Disdain for Plebs, a pro-Trump, alt-right Facebook page, was banned for arguing that Trump was not anti-Muslim, but anti-ISIS, and that his proposed ban on Muslims was not due to innate racism, but because “Homeland Security cannot differentiate which Muslim is radical wanting to cause harm and which is a harmless refugee.”

Facebook moderators, however, apparently considered this to be wrongthink. The post was subsequently removed, as can be seen below, and the account suspended.

When peaking factually becomes a banning offense which is supported by those seeking high and low office you no longer have a functioning democratic republic. If we are not living in a democratic republic then what exactly are we living in?