Just your regular reminder that just because somebody opposes bad guys, doesn’t make them a good guy. If anything, the baddies fight each other more than they fight the goodies, because the baddies are fighting for what they both want: power. Power over you and me. Power to control your choices, your body, your income, your work, your speech, your interactions with others. Everyone who wants that is evil, even if one set of them happens to be on your side today. There’s an old saying, “He who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon.” But most modern people don’t get that; let a pig or politician say something they like against someone they hate, and suddenly that pig or politician is a goodie they’re not only happy to eat with, but to allow to cook for them. And they don’t even count the spoons. You know who killed more Nazis than anybody? The Commies. And they were doing it before the Nazis even came to power. And predictable as fucking sunrise, in the middle of all this week’s anti-Nazi fervor, what did we see? Historical ignoramuses claiming the Commies weren’t as bad as the Nazis, despite the fact that just Mao & Stalin combined murdered more than three times as many people as Hitler, and that’s not even counting the contributions of lesser luminaries like Pol Pot, Kim Il-sung and Fidel Castro.
Oh, and one more thing: I’m really pleased to see so many people joining me in condemning fascism, as I have for decades. Unfortunately, most moderns seem to think the term means something like “organized racism”. It doesn’t; fascism has a specific meaning, namely rule by a coalition of political, corporate and military or paramilitary interests. They also seem to think US fascism started with Donald Trump, which is patently absurd. Here’s an excerpt from Dr. Lawrence Britt’s seminal article on the 14 defining characteristics of fascism; you’ll note that most of these describe American government as far back as the Reagan administration, and a few of them as far back as the FDR administration.
It’s times like this I wish Krulac and/or Cabrogal still posted here. I’d be interested to see what they think of all this.
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more, no less.
A corollary to this is that the best way to win a war is to attack the winner of another war before he can recover from from the one he just fought. (Twice the spoils for only one fight.)
The great themes of history: man/woman, war/peace, man/god(s), tyranny/freedom, masters/slaves
It’s disgusting how the media buys the crazy view that actual Nazis still exist, especially after that rally’s leader was shown to be false-flagging.
Besides, Nazis were clearly always on the left.
Excellent points Maggie!
Although I have to disagree with Dr. Britt’s 14 points of fascism. They appear to be 13 points of pretty much any kind of authoritarianism plus one of authoritarianism that isn’t communist (9 Corporate Power Is Protected). The religion one I suppose could also be argued as a difference by someone who doesn’t recognize communism (with its messianic message of the paradise to come by unspecified means) as a religion. It basically shows, I would argue, that fascism is a word with no definition except that it’s the unpopular kind of authoritarianism.
Well said. The problem starts and ends with power, in the sense you describe.
Both sides have tossed individual liberty last century. I would also remind people that Joe McCarthy was friends with the JFK and Robert; both of whom were megalomaniacs, warmongers, crooks, the latter was a racist and anti-semite, and admired Hitler and Mussolini as much as David Duke and Edwin Edwards. How is former Psykosonik frontman Vox Day any different from lefttards such as Natalie Merchant (ex 10,000 Maniacs frontwoman), Sean Penn, or Harry (shameless hypocrite) Belafante? If you support one form of authoritarianism, you support the other. Hell, even William Norman Grigg had to ditch the John Birch Society because they have become pro-authoritarianism.
Who gives a shit what Krulac thinks.
Add Robert E. Lee to the list.
But one has to wonder at the logic of placing people on the list above the execrable Augusto Pinochet when at least some recent names on the list, Castro, Assad and others had their actions embellished and reputations demonized by the very apparatus, U.S. Intelligence agencies, responsible for fomenting and executing pogroms the author of the article references. Wasn’t Pinochet “Our” man in South America?
The last time Nationalist ideology got a crack at world dominance, 495 million people died on both sides.
We can’t afford to be that ignorant, stupid or unwise again.
Most of human history and society is built on lies. When these lies are revealed, they are replaced with more lies.