Fighting Fascism and White Supremacy by Understanding History

[truthout.org]

(Well clearly, obviously, and it’s becoming more ominous by the day. What Donald J. Trump is doing — which sadly and unfortunately many of our progressive friends have not — is that he’s globalizing and internationalizing his movement. If you notice, as we speak, he’s castigating Prime Minister Theresa May in London and touting as a potential successor, Boris Johnson, her recently defrocked foreign secretary, who is to her right. In Germany, he’s been castigating the traditional conservative Angela Merkel and [Trump’s] ambassador in Berlin. Richard Grenell [the current US ambassador to Germany] has gone on record as saying that he sees part of his job as boosting forces to the right of traditional conservatives, sort of these neo-fascists who now rule in both Rome and Vienna.)

As I've brought up a few times, Europe is on the move to the right also. So here we see Trump may be also used as a means to help that agenda along there. The proverbial adage, you give them a city and they take a state. Until they have the entire country. We're now moving towards the entire planet! And they are presently working very hard to take it all. This is the Caitlin Johnstone's 1-2 punch where the left has allowed the right to substantially progress hard to the right because we've had no one fighting for us. With nearly 5 decades of literally no real opposition, the right now sees it's been essentially given the go ahead by a weak public willing to submit after a slow agenda of managed perception that the main stream media has helped perpetrate on us for them. The majority of the public having been successfully separated from any sense of real investigative journalism is now prime prey for a quicker approach towards the rights agenda without having any real sense of what's coming. The 2016 election cycle was that last door being opened as a fair warning. And over half the country is still feeding on the handful of peanuts their media feeds them while the vast majority of essential issues are being played out in the shadows they are totally ignorant of. Missing the obvious pieces of the puzzle as they either love or hate Trump, and over 2 years of a false Russia narrative.

(Well, I’ve been thinking about Chile a lot lately because I’m quite familiar with the overthrow of the socialist government on September 11, 1973 … and the rise of Augusto Pinochet. And one of the reasons I’ve been thinking about it is because many progressive Chileans were just shocked by the rise of fascism; they thought that their democratic structures were less fragile and brittle than they actually were. It reminds me of the United States because people in the United States were shocked by the rise of Donald Trump and his neo-fascist trends. They overestimated the strength of their “democratic” institutions, although I must say that people in the United States have less reason to be shocked than the people of Chile — even though of course, you have settler colonialism in Chile, and you had a certain level of enslavement in Chile as well, but not to the dimensions that you had in North America.)

Shocked? Personally no. I haven't been trapped in the illusion of the managed perception being waged on us. And those of us who haven't had been watching it come, been well warned of it coming, and speaking out about it. We are the one's that have been ridiculed and laughed at so many times on social media that it saddens us to a profound measure.