US Elections are a scam. It is managed democracy to support a Totalitarian Capitalist dystopia. I don't even think you can credibly call it a Capitalist system at this point, because a Capitalist system implies an ability for one company to challenge the dominance of another company over a market, and by providing a better or cheaper product or service, can displace or replace the dominant company in a market. But that doesn't happen in many so-called Markets in the US dominated International Capitalist System. Instead, a dominant company remains dominant through the careful manipulation of the political economic system itself through a framework of corruption and legalized bribery built into the US Electoral system. So-called Special Interests, in other words Corporate Interests, dominate the Policy discussion. Historically, challengers to the system are harassed, cajoled, manipulated and bribed, and if still a problem, they are persecuted, imprisoned or assassinated by elements in the Deep State.
Democracy NEVER existed in the United States. From the beginning, Wealthy Aristocracy cemented their place in politics by giving Voting Rights only to White Male Landowners. As that political system became less viable over the years, new and more complex ways for the Ruling Class to control and manipulate those elections were found and added to the system even as the country supposedly "democratized" throughout the Progressive Era and Civil Rights Movement.
Today, the system is so peppered with control mechanisms for the Ruling Class, there is virtually ZERO chance of a true challenger to the Capitalist System to become an elected official to the Federal Government, let alone to become President or to take power in Congress. The maze of regulations and rules, the enormous amounts of money required, the various Party controlled electoral mechanisms all combine to act as a safety valve for the Ruling Class to maintain power in the face of Popular Opposition, regardless how popular it may be.
Elections may be real, but the process of putting your options on the ballot virtually guarantees the Ruling Class has the final say in who gets power and who doesn't.
That's not democracy, that's Fascism.
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"The SWP was an active participant and builder of the anti-fascist movement. The SWP members, particularly those in trade unions, followed a strategy of counter-mobilisation to fight the incipient fascist groups and advocated the formation of workers’ defence guards to defend working class organisations. Liberals who opposed fascists, on the other hand, focused on relying on the capitalist courts and legislatures to stand up to the fascists."
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“First, it is a wide mass movement of farmers and small business who face bankruptcy, of youth denied a future under capitalism, of sections of the unemployed. All these layers of the oppressed who are seeking desperately to put their hands on the surrounding plenty become hypnotised by the silver-plated promises of a demagogue who regiments them into blindly obedient shock troops.
“Secondly, it is financed and controlled by the very capitalists who above all are anxious to keep the revolutionary violence of the masses from turning against them. In America — the DuPonts, the Morgans, the Rockefellers — the Sixty Families."
"The key message of The Fight Against Fascism in the U.S.A. is that incipient fascist movements must be identified early and confronted by a broad, democratic and disciplined united front. Taking on rightwing populists and fascists must be done collectively, not in an individualistic or adventurist manner."
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https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/03/new-college-of-florida-fires-lgbtq-librarian-weeks-before-school-ends/70174101007/
Three days ago, New College of Florida administration terminated the associate dean of academic engagement and information librarian, Helene Gold. She has been with the school for five years, through the start of Covid and through restructuring. She provided precious support for students in their final weeks of class. Many students who planned to work with her are now left hanging, nearing the end of a semester during which they were forced to watch their school be torn apart bit-by-bit. Gold even had a class she was scheduled to finish teaching.
Administration has further cemented not just the disregard they have for the people who keep the institution running, but for the students as well.
Gold was fired because of her identity and because admin knew that she disapproves of them.
According to a 2019 Catalyst article, Gold loves New College. She had wanted to work there for years, and that shows in how long she stayed. And yet, she was forced out with an hour’s notice because of people who likely first heard of New College less than a year ago.
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the warning light is blinking (no critical thinking)
yes, the warning light is blinking
too frequently to ignore
for there's no critical thinking
in the U.S. anymore
seems it fell out of fashion
now so many years back
people pushing with passion
having no use for fact
it's all about reaction
not a logical track
so the fascists gain traction
in tomes none can redact
seems it fell out of favor
now many years ago
thought they tasted a savior
capped and caped a hero
but his was not a flavor
that was compatible
not something to be savored
was unpalatable
yes, the warning light is blinking
too frequently to ignore
for there's no critical thinking
in the U.S. anymore
seems it fell out of practice
now we need it revived
for here the propagandist
is the one who will thrive
tis the way of the fascists
how that mindset survives
logic can counteract this
but those stores are deprived
yes, the warning light is blinking
too frequently to ignore
for there's no critical thinking
in the U.S. anymore
seems it fell out of fashion
now so many years back
people pushing with passion
having no use for fact
(9/25/22)
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To all the communist transvestites, VOTE👏VON👏HINDENBURG👏
I'm just as radical as you; I'm a proud member of the great Social Democratic Party of Germany! I don't know what the crazy communists are telling you, but Paul von Hindenburg is our only hope to defeat the Nazis. After we elect him, then we can discuss other politics, but this is the BARE MINIMUM, and if you don't vote for him, you clearly have this crazy purity test that'll bring us all to fascism.
I know you might be worried about his "senility" and "failing health", and I know you may not like him because of his push to the right, and I know you may be worried about the brownshirts, and the recent persecution of Dr. Hirschfeld and his work, and maybe you STILL haven't gotten over the whole Rosa Luxemburg stuff,
but none of that really matters! We need to keep the SPD in power, or else Hitler will get in charge! This is the most important and most basic thing you could do to help Germany stay a democracy. In 6 years, then maybe we can find a better candidate, but no matter what you think about von Hindenburg, he's the best shot we have at keeping the fascists out of power. We can totally push him left!
Any vote against von Hindenburg is a vote for Hitler. #Hindenburg1932
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The Ten Pillars of Fascist Politics by Jason Stanley
Above is a July 6, 2021 twitter thread by Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley, PhD, which outlines the 10 pillars of fascist politics. It shows just how fascist most of the Republican Party has become under Trump’s leadership. The current MAGA GQP has incorporated each of the above 10 pillars into its talking points and philosophy.
This is why the GQP has been up in arms about Biden accurately calling their Trumpist political ideology “semi-fascism.”
Feel free to share this with your relatives and friends who want to defend the direction the GQP has been going in. [Just be prepared when they counterattack to explain why the Democratic Party is not “communist” or “socialist,” but a center left political party, with its most extreme members being social democrats (even Bernie Sanders and AOC aren’t really democratic socialists)].
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Note: The visual formatting of how the original tweet in the thread appears, as well as the visual formatting of pillars number 2 - 9 were modified from their source; furthermore, the translation of “ARBEIT MACH FREI” AS “WORK MAKES ONE FREE” was added to pillar #10.
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Reminder that West hates indigenous people in Palestine and has never stopped hating the Indigenous Turtle Islanders -
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Amazon and other Corporate giants are slowly but surely censoring voices that don't tow the mainstream line.
It started with the censoring of Fascists, Nazis and then more broadly the Far-Right. And because these people are completely and utterly detestable, no one said a thing. The Left defended and cheerled for the very things they thought they were stopping.
Now, we see the Private Sector joining forces with Corporate Democrats and Republicans to silence Working Class and Socialist historians and Academics even as the Feds move to arrest and indict Socialist and Communist Parties for imaginary crimes.
But when I went to buy a copy of a particularly controversial Anti-Fascist and Communist Historian's book, I found it pretty quickly on Amazon and other big corporate stores. And none of them have a single copy for sale. You can see it, the book was for sale at some point, but clearly isn't anymore.
In fact, this book has become so rare that I was only able to find three copies on eBay, and the price has gone from $5-7 to $30-40.
Hell you have the State of Texas doing its damned best to teach children that slavery was somehow good for Africans, and even got caught trying to describe LITERAL SLAVES as Immigrant workers.
I am reminded of Martin Neimoller's famous poem:
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Have you heard of Red Caesar?
It's pretty terrifying. These people literally believe that the US's "experiment" with democracy is over, and that the only way back to national greatness (which means something different for them than it does for sane people) is for a "strong leader" to take unilateral control. In other words, a dictatorship. They'd have to try pretty damn hard to sound any more like Benito Mussolini - the person who actually created the term "fascist" and wore it with pride.
They have a particular time frame in mind. They're gathering funds and supplies and support. They are actively working to make this happen. In a country that wasn't already corrupted by fascism, some of them would have been charged with seditious conspiracy by now.
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kinda fucked up how quickly the united states is descending into christofascism and i just gotta like. go to work
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more postcards from dystopia
look all around and ask why
there's a constant turn of the screw
the cost of living's this high
and the cost of dying is too
more postcards from dystopia
the new 'murican vision
trying to make the most of the
regressionists' revisions
decades of fights forgotten
making the choice law of the land
then from a bench so rotten
came an attack completely planned
here progress is a problem
and so the whole concept is banned
their god they have installed him
needed his judgy, wrathful hand
more postcards from dystopia
it's the new 'murican dream
just try to ignore most of the
purposely oppressive schemes
look all around and ask who
all this has been built up to feed
they now need to turn the screw
is to benefit from their greed
more postcards from dystopia
new 'murican fascism
trying to get the most from the
institutional -isms
we once claimed we led with heart
knowing full well where we fell short
we shone lights there for a start
and filed a number of reports
thought we might correct this arc
instead we hunted them for sport
turned our hate into an art
politicized it for the court
more postcards from dystopia
the new 'murican standard
trying to get the most from the
hateful to which they've pandered
look all around and ask what
could this road be leading us to
their divisive ways disrupt
if that's what he was meant to do
more postcards from dystopia
the new 'murican version
trying to make the most of the
regressionist perversions
saw the value of labor
'neath the light of the pandemic
and then saw who it favored
and we were not factored in it
the “quiet quitting” tailors
fashioned this to be systemic
for they are the game makers
and we are mere players in it
more postcards from dystopia
the new 'murican spirit
just try to ignore most of the-
know what...you'll barely hear it
look all around and ask why
there's a constant turn of the screw
the cost of living's this high
and the cost of dying is too
more postcards from dystopia
new 'murica two point d'oh
trying to make the most of the
dumpster-fire, fucked shitshow
(8/31/22)
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