Liz Cheney has warned us. So has Rachel Maddow in her latest book PREQUEL. How many Thanksgiving dinner table conversations this year centered on our alarming Fascist movement organizing to end our democracy, even among well read, informed and democracy supporting families? I think very few. Our mainstream media seems to be sleepwalking on the adoption of the Republican party of the MAGA movement which is clearly fascist, because it will help them retain power.
Read Rachel's amazing historical account of the pervasive fascist organizing in America, all across the land, in part funded by the Third Reich in the 30's and 40's. It was supported by power hungry elected officials who even used the government funded Franking Privilege to disseminate Nazi propaganda. numerous grassroots organizations met and launched support for Fascist Germany and Adolph Hitler, held meetings, staged events, recruited and raised money in tandem with racist and anti-Semitic organizations with longer-standing histories of hate in our country. Are you and your family members familiar with this history? Likely not as it is not taught in our elementary and secondary schools. And as a political science major in college, I can attest to its absence in much of academia.
Much like the chaos the MAGA movement has initiated, or disruption as Steve Bannon characterizes, the attempts to legally restrain these actors was largely sabotaged by lawyers both in courts and through legislation, with anti-democratic fascist organizers characterized as just "good Americans." Much of this movement then was driven by white nationalist Anglos trying to preserve the whiteness and ethnic purity of our country. The same motivation drives the MAGA movement today which also includes a desire to establish a "Christian" character to our society.
America, we are repeating our history which we neither study nor learn from. If pro-democracy patriots do not mobilize now against this threat to our magnificent experiment, we are about to lose it in 2024.
Making our neighbors aware of the very real loss of our freedoms to a totalitarian future that will be very hard to reverse and mobilizing a vote in 2024 for democracy is the only solution to stopping a society transformation that limits the rights and participation of women, minority persons and non-"Christians" and dooms us to a dark, limiting future for both us and our children and grandchildren. Wake UP America.
