What is Fascism?

 

WHAT IS FASCISM?

From Webster’s Third International Unabridged Dictionary;

Fascism; “any program for setting up a centralized autocratic national regime with severely nationalistic policies, exercising regimentation of industry, commerce and finance, rigid censorship and forcible suppression of opposition”.

The Thousand-year Reich in Germany only survived for twelve years under fascism.

Here is what war correspondent Eric Sevareid had to say after total immersion in WWII from start to finish in his monumental book, Not So Will A Dream:

“Now our Military Government officers were sorting out the sick and the healthy at the entryway, bringing water for them and dispatching trucks for bread and meat. The Germans clustered in large groups, watching the Americans’ every move and gesture. The woman’s legs were smeared with coal dust, and their hair straggled down over their unwashed faces while children blinked their eyes and clung to their mothers’ skirts. Despite this familiar situation of misery and starvation, a thing I had seen many times before, the relationship was not the normal one. It was conqueror and conquered, of course, but there was something else besides. You could see in their eyes. There were the sullen expressions of suspicion which one suspected, but there were other expressions, which revealed a deep, fixed indignation, which said: “This cannot happen to us.” There seemed to be a sheep like desire to do exactly as they were told, and yet an air of outraged dignity. When their burgomaster announced in a loud voice that the Americans would be unable to move back into their homes until the next day, a muttering ran through the crowd, there were drooping sneers on the faces of some of the young men and women, and one white haired grandmother burst into shrieks of despair and anger. Human misery is human misery, but I could not avoid a sudden feeling of detestation and incredulity. Millions of people in many lands were in the same condition, and worse, because of what the Germans had done. The starving dehumanized foreign workers were just down the road. The homes of these Germans, as we had verified, were stocked with food, warm clothes, new furniture, and radios. One could tell at ounce merely by looking into their faces that they had not the faintest sense of having done anything wrong, that they were utterly unable to grasp what had happened to them and their country, that they had been, were now, and would continue to be concerned only with themselves, unable even to imagine the suffering of others.

It could have been self-deceptive, but I had a profound feeling of having seen at a flash into the minds of a people who were different. As we drove back across the river I realized that a contradiction had been introduced into what had been a basic belief of mine: that all people are essentially the same, that all are capable of democracy and peace, that given bread and security they will have no desire to aggress upon others, that if all people are given bread and security long enough, wars will be impossible. Now I felt entirely unsure of the economic interpretation of political events. Whatever the overpowering logic of Marx and others, I had an uneasy feeling that the structure broke down where the Germans were concerned. It was difficult to put into words, but somehow they were different. They were not quite rational or normal in the realm of human relationships, in the procedures of social existence. There was an inexplicable knot in their souls. Their spirit was an ingrown one, not an outgoing one. Perhaps, as some said there was a loneliness in them, but if so it was a loneliness which neither we nor they could assuage on this world, this side of death. Had this generation of breast-beating and mysticism alone done this to them? I was not sure; I was inclined to feel it was a basic and permanent matter, and how outsiders-conquerors and others- were to go about altering this state of affairs I had no idea. The war we had poured upon the country had certainly altered Germany; I had yet to believe that it had altered the Germans.”

(So, that is what Eric Sevareid had to say about the Germans directly after the war.)

A quote from my wife Jane: “No politician can exist without a Krupp behind them!”

The German people as a whole are honest, hard working, law abiding, dedicated, and loyal to their leadership. When compared to all nationalities world wide they stack up near the very top in all of the above attributes.

Now America: “The home of the brave”

“The land of the free, with Liberty and Justice for ALL”

is under the jackboot of fascism.

Will it survive the dynasty?

In addition, if so, how long?

As America entered WWII, the slogan was; “Kill the Nazis” and that soon became; “Kill the Germans”.

So, it went from kill Castro to kill the “Cubans”, then; “kill the Viet Cong became kill the gooks”. Recently this became kill Ben Laden and that soon moved on to “kill the rag-heads”.

Who are the insurgents now?

Who are the imperialists?

Where is the evil empire?

America needs to take a long look in the mirror!

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