McCarthy-ism: Is it back?

I wrote a comment in response to another commentor's misunderstanding of our system of government. That misunderstanding inspired this entry to my blog. This entry also works for the likes of the Beck, Limbaugh, Savage, Keyes, Agar and Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R) MN. This is the time for a few Edward R. Murrows, I hope to one day see news networks re-attain that level of excellence by kicking the corporatists to the curb.

It has been my experience that far too few have any understanding of the political spectrum, of the concepts that differentiate democracy and autocracy, that differentiate authoritarianism from libertarianism, traditionalism from liberalism, conservatism from progressivism, understanding of the primitive psychologies that energize fascism and nationalism, racism and chauvinism, paternalism, patriarchy, and misogyny and they have no idea that we are developing naturally, morally, and intellectually toward the mutual beneficence through our natural progression to socialism and anarchism. They have no clue what these words mean, or that we would be progressing much faster toward a much better world if they were not ideologically deranged to be intellectually regressive. The vast majority of people comprehend very little of the economic apologetics used to obfuscate the fallacies of state and private capitalism, the authoritarian characteristics of Bolshevism, communism, and capitalism. These same people feel or believe they have a good grasp of political and social sciences, when nothing could be further from the truth. These people should do the rest of us a favor and sit quietly long enough to learn, but they are the most belligerent and vociferous of agitators.

The Republicans devolved into a party of fascists (a rightwing chauvinistic nationalist movement) when corporatists and laissez-faire capitalists teamed up with Christian nationalists using fictive narratives about Bolshevism and Russia's state capitalism to push McCarthyism, an anti-freethought, anti-labor, anti-liberal bigotry. They evolved into full Nazis with the attraction of racist Dixiecrats and rightwing religionists of the Southern Baptist Convention through the Southern Strategy. This country has endured a population of Nazis since its founding. But the unification labor and a ever empowered middle class frightened a plutocracy who were losing the ability to control the middle class by instigating fights between white and black peons, which meant the plutocracy was overpowered politically.

As a side note, the NSDAP (Nazism) was: a) Nationalistic, which is antithetical to Socialism, and b) born of a Fox News style fear mongering, extremely retrogressive conservatism, which leads to scapegoating diverse social groups, through the bigotry of exclusionary organizations (i.e. religious, cultural, or national). This is, in fact, the actual danger in the U.S. at present. And, as it usually does, coming from the back side of a charlatan's hand, will turn this country into an Orwellian reality show with Nazi parades before the plebes recognize the expression of their bigotries. Ask any German if they seen it coming or recognized Nazism when they experienced it.

As for Socialism, systems like education, highways, Medicaid and Medicare are perfectly in line with a Democratic Republic; remember, even the first fascists, the Romans from whom our system is modeled, built roads. It is what a community does, the very reason for any social contract is to pool our resources for the greater good. Consequently, the greedy among us have, and always will, complain at the top of their lungs, even though, they reap the greatest benefit. They are greed driven and want everything for nothing. Where would our business and industry be without the educational or highway systems of this country? Our social systems are what make this country as good as it is. Anarchism and socialism or libertarian socialism as contrasted with statism or state or private capitalism as best as it can be explained are polar opposites socially, politically, and in their ideological reverence for propertarianism, private property ownership. So it is obvious that it would take sizable upheaval, through a grassroots popular movement, of our political and economic system to bring that much change, no one man or party could impose such a structure. Not only that, but the rich and powerful plutocrats would be the last to want that type of system. Socialism will come from a workers rebellion for economic equality, the last thing the current power mongers would want.

As for the Czar scare the Beckerheads are pushing at present, Czars come from an Imperial Russia, not a Communist Russia, and Russia was never Socialist. Greedy men who are used to making millions, even billions, of dollars are adept at getting their way by paying professionals to stir the emotions of people that already feel left out. Don't let them use your emotions against you; think for yourself. If you don't use your brain, someone will use it against you. To "get our country back," this was originally a xenophobic trope by racist nationalists fearing every immigrant to make the journey, would actually be to take it back from big financial institutions, and global conglomerates, not some individual who constitutes only one estate of three that make up this country's government. And, to weaken those global institutions we need to stop empowering them, which is what the public option will do. This is, in no uncertain terms, why the insurance industry is pushing so hard for President Obama's "Waterloo". And why Beck, Rush, Savage, et al., are being fed the scripts to parrot by the Kochs and the Don't Think Tanks, which they are, in turn, spewing across the air waves at us. Money! One more point I would like to make. If a societal cataclysm is to overcome this country in the form of an ideological overthrow or political coup, it will come wrapped in our flag and carrying the Bible. It will come from a conservative, right-winger, or narcissist preferring photo-ops to substance, and spouting patriotic slogans and xenophobic sound bites or racial slurs over social media.