When Republican lawmakers and talking heads speak these days, this is what I hear:
âI HATE liberal cancel culture and believe in absolute free speech! I would also like to ban, do away with or silence Disney, NPR, Bud Light,
the FBI and CIA, this big pile of books over here, M&Ms, Mr.
Potatohead, college professors, any Democratic lawmaker I donât want to
hear speak, âwokeness,â any mention of diversity, drag shows,
people who defend drag shows, people who defend people who defend drag
shows, any mention whatsoever of the existence of LGBTQ people, this other big pile of books over here, the entire Department of Education, PBS and Oreos.â
I'll go with Orwell. A noted anti fascist. He's been pretty much more right than wrong with his observations as we have come to see.
While it has definitions, these days it seems to be used against anything or anyone you disagree with and find a need to use a label to dismiss rather than discuss the item or actions in question. Which is a fascist characteristic. Silence any opposition or debate regarding disagreeable thoughts or ideas rather than engage in a debate and discuss the differences in view points. ie, cancel culture. And which side of the aisle is the chief proponent of cancel culture ?
...the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else ... Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathisers, almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist'. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.<51>
I don't know ,it's got a definition and all:
noun
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
...the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else ... Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathisers, almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist'. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.[51]
In these times, I find it hard to distinguish - since in a duo-partisan (American) government, one is defining it in just one way, to discredit the other half (in my view, not only Americans love doing that, but "all their vassals")..
Meanwhile.. (if one would read into it)..
..all the public media are being "cleared" towards a unified definition. - What a hoot.
Freedoms taken from the people are abundant. Especially in this digital age, me thinks.
Anyway, just a thought, not intending to (nor believing to) trigger any "earthquake-like-reaction" here on this get-together of well-indoctrinated folks.
Texas' hubris believes its own hype and flaunts 'whadya gonna do about it' to an overwhelmed DOJ and vilified FBI. They've been after Ken Paxton, indicted on securities fraud and abuse of office, for the last eight years yet he's managed to get re-elected as State Attorney General for a third term last fall. The highest legal authority in the State.
Texas refuses to even name the current Secretary of State â it's just referred to as "The office of." Don't tell me Donnie boy wasn't/isn't a decoy.
