America’s Near Fall to Fascism
It is said that sleep is the cousin of death. When folks fall asleep during a covert fascist takeover, liberty and human rights end up following the Angel of Death. Death’s single degree of separation to right-wing ideology rests in the how the ideology practices incest with fascism.
According to a BBC Radio investigative report, FDR’s progressive social programs was apparently such a huge threat to the capitalistic ideal of those in power that a Hitler/Mussolini-esque fascist plot to overthrow the President with the pimp limp. The American Liberty League was born out of the influence of a genocidal posse. It’s no surprise that the elite crew who who tried to ride on Hitler’s coattails consisted of the American industry elite, such as Maxwell House, Heinz, General Motors, and Dubya’s abuelo, Prescott Bush, among others.
Interestingly, Mike Thomson makes it a point to bring up the high likelihood that the country would be submissive to a dictatorship replacing FDR, as they might deem it necessary for the “preservation” certain liberties. This makes one wonder about the ability for our current society to fall into such a fate.
And if you ain’t already knowing, learn yourself about how different American corporations provided assistance to the rise of certain fascist European regimes.
It shouldn’t be a shock that our your current President has connections to a dark elite like this. (Key in to the dude left of the clock):
*And for those wondering, the picture at the beginning was taken a while ago from a counter protest to a group of College Republicans in NYU who thought it necessary to engage in a racist game of “Find the Illegal Immigrant”.
-Ninoy Brown
July 29th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Ain’t that some shit. What things in this country haven’t been tied to American capitalism and modernity? Ford is like god here in Michigan and supposedly he held dance classes and social dance competitions to ensure that people would be good citizens.
Very interesting post by the way. Interestingly, in somewhat related info, I just read a book (Cold War Civil Rights by Mary Dudziak) that talked about the contradictions (and critique) of the rise of the civil rights discourse and movement and its coordination and alignment with U.S. cold war foreign policy. apparently the civil rights discourse became part of a larger hegemonic apparatus to serve American state and corporate global desires in Asian markets and served to prove the U.S. as a benevolent nation in relation to these other fascist nations. Capitalism must be the biggest trick in the world…
July 29th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
“capitalism must be the biggest trick in the book”
indeed.
and we also all know that civil rights was a communist conspiracy to overthrow america’s liberties, right?
years ago, i took a tour of ford’s mansion when i visited relatives right across the border in windsor. the man is definitely revered out there. and though, i don’t fully agree with all that he has done, dude had some decent ideas. like that thing about paying your workers a decent salary so they can actually afford to buy shit… wal-mart should take note.
July 30th, 2007 at 6:00 am
well, its not to say civil rights was bad, but maybe as a discourse or as a movement as it comes to resonate today, has its limitations, or maybe even back then. i sometimes think its rhetoric, in its contemporary reverberations, tends to romanticize or simplify the scope of the movement altogether into weird nationalist forms (i.e. inclusion vs. fuck the state, state-building vs. anti-imperialism).
Yea, the decent salary thing is pretty impressive. And hiring African Americans really early on is commendable, too. Isn’t it eerie to think that he strategized people’s whole lives to work for capitalism, even during leisure.
I never been to the mansion, anything else cool or eerie?
July 30th, 2007 at 8:36 am
i wasn’t implying that the book might have portrayed a negative image of the civil rights movement, but merely bringing up the fact that it was painted by the arch-conservative at the time as a communist insurrection. its pretty well documented how j. edgar hoover had his rifle scope set for m.l.k. and others in the movement. ward churchill compiled a lot of the information in “the cointelpro papers: documents from the fbi’s secret war against dissent in the united states”.
the mansion was cool if your into vintage cars. i went when i was still pretty young so i wasn’t paying attention to any capitalism spreading symbolisms, yet. but i’m pretty sure there the spot had spirits wandering the area.
July 30th, 2007 at 8:59 am
word. didn’t mean to confuse what you were saying.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:40 am
you forgot one important name when linking power players/corporations to Hitler…does the name Joe Kennedy ring a bell? If not,2 of his sons were assassinated and a 3rd makes a fool of himself regularly on the senate floor.
Interesting you chose to leave that name out of the mix.