Du-ce! Du-ce!
The face of American fascism?
I was made hip to this fourth-estate fifth column by the vigilant Bob of Bob's Corner, through his link to the Taibbi report:
"Actual rich people can’t ever be the target. It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit"This is poison, gang -- Obama's Mickey Finn for any of us rad-rousers -- premature anti-Fascism. Circle the peace wagons! Form a broad democratic front! Oh and shut the fuck up! Unite with the moderate head of Orthrus now in power, before the whole gig crumbles into Weimar II!"After all, the reason the winger crowd can’t find a way to be coherently angry right now is because this country has no healthy avenues for genuine populist outrage. It never has. The setup always goes the other way...
If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it’s struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. It’s really weird stuff. And bound to get weirder, I imagine, as this crisis gets worse and more complicated"
It's all nonsense, of course.
- The pendulum is swinging in precisely the opposite direction.
- Fascism isn't about pre-emption, it's about redemption.
- We lefties gotta look like we're winning first, then actually win somewhere.
- Fascism will happen in a marginal industrial or post industrial state, where maybe a Glenn Beck gets invited to the quarterdeck -- and even then
- Never at the center of centers, which is now the U S of A.
- This whole teabag rumpus is just about keeping a little mindshare -- it's not even pushback time, much less putsch-back time.
