Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Obama Face of Fascism

Most Americans are entirely unaware of the nature of fascism.  Most commonly persons associate fascism with some variety of ethnic cleansing or persecution.   Fascism is much more than this.   Ethnic cleansing or persecution is normally only associated with fascism because the character of fascism is that it always requires some category of scapegoats.  So prevalent is this aspect that fascism might be called scape- goatism.

Beyond this aspect of scape-goatism,  fascism is most often some form of modified socialism.  Fascists are more often to accept control of private interests in lieu of actual ownership than is the case with Communists.  This is often true especially in the case of small business.   An individual might continue to own a private business, but a representative of the government appears on a regular basis to instruct the 'owner' what he must do.

Fascism is popular in modern America and often appears under the euphemisms of 'public-private partnerships'  or 'faith based programs.'  These are 'partnerships' in which the jack booted representatives of intrusive government show up at the private business or non-governmental organization with a lengthy list of mandates and instructions.

Another crucial aspect of fascism is the widespread tendency to use public money to support private interests.  A host of subsidies are made available for every conceivable purpose to further the ideological views imbedded in the fascist government and to support its primary advocates.

An excellent example of fascism in America is now in the daily news.   Unions have long negotiated with corporations and have succeeded in establishing in law the notion that when persons are about to be laid off they must be notified in advance of the loss of their jobs.  The current budgetary debacle in Washington makes sequestration of defense funds highly likely and the result would be the loss of tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of jobs with defense contractors in battleground states.  The early notification requirement of law would put many of these corporations in the position of notifying employees of the imminent loss of their jobs prior to election day of 2012.

In order to deal with this crisis the Obama administration has twisted arms of defense contractors all over the United States not to comply with law and not to notify employees of the imminent loss of their jobs. The defense contractors balked at this because they would be civilly liable to union employees for failure to comply with this law.   The solution of the Obama administration to deal with this crisis has now been to indemnify the corporations against civil liability of  union employees.  In other words, the taxpayers by being forced to bear the costs of the violation of law of the corporations are compelled to essentially make an equal value contribution to the re-election of  President Obama. This is the Obama face of Fascism.  It has all of the appearance of the face of a horse's ass.

No comments:

Post a Comment