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The truth needs to be told as often
as the lie.
The attack
on America started before January 6, 2021.
I’ve written about the attack in other posts like the 1/6 post. What happened was just the physical
attempted coup d'état.[1] Planning took place before then. The “Select Committee to Investigate the January
6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol” reported on that. They did an excellent job. Their final report is well organized and well
written. It’s easily
understandable.
But the real attack on America and
its institutions began way before that.
So, I’m going to talk about that as well as the January 6 attack but not
in anywhere near the detail that they went into. I’ll get more into the report in America
under Attack Part II.
Just some high
spots.
The short
list:
America is bad.! Our government is corrupt![2] There’s a Deep State running things! Our elections are corrupt! Our border is wide open and under siege! Our justice system has been weaponized! The government is weaponized against the
American people! Men in tactical camo
gear with guns are walking in the streets, public buildings and government
offices. Rapists and murderers are
pouring in across our open borders! Our
cities are in flames! News is fake! ANTIFA and BLM are tearing our country
apart! Our military is weak! The world is laughing at us! Our economy is destroyed! News media lies! Immigrants are getting Social Security and
free health care! (Bolsonaro?) Our teachers are pedophile groomers! Trust no one!
White people are victims! Dems
are pedophiles! Dems are
socialists! Dems are evil! George Soros is behind it all! Jews are pulling the strings! The Deep State is governing! People on welfare are lazy! Our nation is going to hell! Bathrooms aren’t safe! We’ve turned away from Jesus! Our freedoms are being taken away! Colleges are teaching socialism! Is this the America you see?
This is the
America they see.
Note: If you read that list and believe even a
small portion of that mythological garbage you should at least consider that
you might be a Republican Neofascist and question your sources of information.
Rural and small-town America,
Republican Neofascists and Christian Nationalists eat this stuff up. I’ll watch video of some MAGA head sitting in
a comfortable home in suburbia talking about how bad America is doing and it’s
coming apart at the seams. A MAGA farmer
in Iowa will talk about how horrible our open borders are! And on and on, day in day out, they share
their…
Dystopian[3]
view of America.
Old is New
Fascists with covered faces once
again marched in our streets. They
haven’t gone away.
Did they ever really go away? Nazis/fascists have been around since before
America entered WWII. Nazis held a big
rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939 attended by estimated 22,000 people.[4] Hitler had the support of the churches in
Germany with a couple of rare exceptions like Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer[5]. They are back in the streets again with their
flags and their proponents are having dinner a Mar a Lago with their Duce,
Donald J. Trump.
The largest secession group headquartered
in Texas turned out to be run by the Russians.[6] Russia is a dictatorship/oligarchy with Putin
currently the leader. His days are
numbered but a fascist replacement is waiting in the wings. Putin has the support of the Russian Orthodox
church. Trump asked for and received Putin’s
help in 2016. Trump would meet with
Putin alone.[7]
Racists have been around since the
founding of the United States. Republican
Neofascists like to call themselves Constitutional “originalists.[8]” The right to own slaves was incorporated into
our constitution. The Confederate south
rose up and fought a war for the “right” to own black people. Then they kept People of Color down through
segregation and the KKK. The KKK has
traded their hoods for face masks and are carrying their racist flags in the streets
once again.
All of the above-mentioned
“master race” groups and more are under the same umbrella. The Republican Neofascist Party has put
together quite the disparate support group for their ideology and agenda. What used to be the Republican Party has
split into 2 distinct factions.
Conservative Republicans remain but they are in the minority. And in Congress, if they’re there at all,
they are cowed. Republican Neofascists
are the majority of the party and are now running things in the House of
Representatives. They actively pursue
overturning our Democracy and its institutions.
It isn’t going to
be pretty.
Messaging
MAGA fascists attack America every
day. They accuse. They belittle. They stay on message, which they share every
day.
I’m delivering the same message day
after day as well. I believe the lies of
Fascists need to be called out as often as we can, wherever we can.
America is great. We do have it better than the majority of
humans living on earth. That doesn’t
mean that we can’t do better. We can try
as a nation to bring the almost 40 million people living in poverty in this
country out of subsistence living.[9] We can have health care for everyone. We can provide an education for
everyone. We can continue making all
religions safe from persecution and letting people believe or NOT believe as
they choose. We can tax the rich and
corporations more than we tax working people.
Republican Neofascists talk about
making things better for “we the people” and then vote against doing that. Democrats are at least trying to make things
better for working people. Republican
Neofascists call that socialism. I call it
living up to the ideal of America.
We can do that.
[1]
https://www.britannica.com/topic/coup-detat
[2]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/10/house-vote-republicans-committee-investigate-government/
[3]
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dystopian
[4]
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-nazism-and-madison-square-garden
[5]
http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/
[6]
https://www.thebulwark.com/meet-the-texas-secessionist-movement-brought-to-you-by-russia/
[7]
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/us/politics/trump-putin-meetings.html
[8]
https://www.britannica.com/topic/constitutional-originalism
[9]
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-277.html
