We simply must stop pretending that we have a two party system. We
have a One Party System, but it's divided into at least Three Groups.
There is the ACE Light, the ACE Medium and the ACE on Steroids, which
is the one currently occupied by the Trumpsters.
For anyone just reading a post by Me, ACE is the American Corporate Empire.
The other notion which Americans must recover from, is the idea that
the Working Class has a political party at its back.
When the working class gave away its Labor Unions, it gave away its
political clout.
But there are many other factors that have led us to our current
plight. One that I believe contributed to the present political
disarray is the heavy impact of our Mass Media.
We have been lulled into an imaginary world where we see problems
arise, actions taken and positive solutions brought to a successful
conclusion, all in an hour, plus commercials. The Mass Media has come
a long way toward immobilizing Americans. Once active young men and
women now lounge in front of their 70 inch TV, or sit glued to their
social media devices. We are being trained to turn away from
involvement, and toward passivity. We have become a sitting duck,
ripe for the plucking by any old Donald Trump who comes along.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/9/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why the Failed Fascist Coup of 1933 Could Succeed in 2021
By Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
09 December 20
Smedley Butler won't be around next year to save us.
The former Marine Corps general was offered a ton of money in 1933 to
murder
newly-elected president Franklin Roosevelt and stage a fascist coup.
Armed with the then-huge sum of $3 million, infamous billionaires funded a
"Banker's Plot" with 500,000 armed thugs set to erect a corporate
dictatorship atop FDR's grave.
Butler had led US troops throughout Latin America during the "Dollar
Diplomacy" 1920s. He crushed grassroots uprisings and installed brutal
dictators. America's richest barons now wanted him to do the same thing
here.
But they chose the wrong guy. In shocking Congressional hearings, Butler
blew the whistle on (until then) US history's best-funded attempted coup.
"War," he warned, "is a racket."
The super-rich plotters hotly denied Butler's account. None of them went to
prison.
Butler won't be around next year to expose the Trump coup attempt, already
in progress. He won't have to. It's already visible for all to see.
But can we stop it?
FDR was the landslide successor to the failed Herbert Hoover. He took power
just as Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
FDR, with his legendary progressive wife Eleanor, promised "Happy Days."
Hitler preached hate. He was backed in Deutschland by many of the same
corporatists then plotting Butler's would-be coup here in the US.
Donald Trump has spent a lifetime preaching hate. In 2021, he'll have
limitless money at his disposal, much of it from actual descendants of the
1933 Banker Plotters. His armed fascist militias are already in the
streets,
murdering peaceful protestors (see: Kenosha), threatening Governors (see:
Gretchen Whitmer), promising to kill even Republican doubters (see: Gabriel
Sterling)
Hitler spent years preaching the "Dolchstosslegende," the "stab in the
back." Germany could never be a "loser," he screamed, and did not lose
World
War I. Victory was "stolen" by radicals, socialists, communists . not to
mention Jews, Roma (gypsies), gays, Jehovah Witnesses, "genetically
inferior" Slavs.
Likewise Trump and 2020. Donald is the tenth US incumbent to lose the
presidency, his margin of defeat exceeded only by Hoover and Jimmy Carter.
But he could never be a "loser." The "fake election" was "stolen" by
radicals, socialists, communists . not to mention gays, uppity women (re:
Kamala Harris), immigrants, "genetically inferior" people of color,
"millions" of whom voted with "fake ballots."
As Hitler filled his concentration camps with political opponents, Trump
has
poisoned our border with COVID death camps for "murderers, rapists, Bad
Hombre" asylum seekers and their children.
Hitler's infamous Big Lie has been more than matched by Trump's endless
stream of blatant falsehoods and Orwellian Hate Speak.
It will not stop. Hitler was imprisoned for a failed 1920s coup attempt in
Munich. He used his prison time to dictate Mein Kampf, the manifesto of his
fascist takeover.
Trump could also go to jail, more likely for his money laundering, tax
evasion, rape, theft, mobsterism. His martyrdom would be tangible.
Or a successor will arise, as utterly devoid of empathy, compassion and
common sense as The Donald and Der Fuhrer.
As with Germany's Weimar Republic, which Hitler easily trashed, Team Biden
comes with a damning record of weakness and failure.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have long since sold the Democratic Party to Wall
Street. Their corporate "New Democrats" have delivered virtually nothing to
an increasingly angry, frustrated working/middle class. NAFTA, stagnant
wages, a deteriorating environment, the Crime Bill/Drug War, the assault on
welfare, skyrocketing student debt, failure to confront Wall Street after
the 2008 crash, endless warfare, and their elitist contempt for a
"deplorable" working class has made the Clinton-Obama-Biden elite a symbol
of hateful grassroots disdain.
In other words, they present the perfect failed state target for a rising
fascist assault. Unless the new administration can deliver real change, and
make life better for the vast number of working/middle-class Americans,
Trumpist fascism is set to succeed where the 1933 Banker's Plot failed.
Of course, salvation lies precisely where the Democrats focus their
greatest
contempt. Biden won 2020's popular vote with ballots cast by tens of
millions of Millennials and their even more diverse younger Zoomer
siblings.
Voters 40 and under rejected Trump by more than 60%. Without them, the
Dems'
2020 down-ballot defeats would make the Reichstag Fire seem a backyard
barbecue.
Predictably blaming "socialism" for their Congressional and state-by-state
debacles, the corp/Dems come up short on everything (besides hatred of
Trump) that inspired the Millennial/Zs to vote for them: universal health
care, a Green New Deal, ending student debt, free public higher education,
a
$15 minimum wage, stronger unions, ending racism, controlling the police,
banishing poverty, hunger and homelessness, secure hand-marked paper
ballots
for future elections, an end to gerrymandering and the Electoral College,
and dismantling the empire.
To save the US from Trumpist fascism, the Democrats' corporate gerontocracy
- Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, etc. - must now go. Biden and his successors
need to deliver real social change. Life must get tangibly better at the
crumbling grassroots of our failing post-industrial/imperial state.
After decades of elitist arrogance and greed, the Weimar Democrats need to
march with The Donald straight into the ash heap of history.
The alternative is not pretty. Time is short. And Smedley Butler is not
around to save us.
Harvey Wasserman co-convenes the weekly Election Protection 2024 ZOOM. His
People's Spiral of US History is at www.solartopia.org.
