{"id":18904,"date":"2016-03-16T11:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18904"},"modified":"2016-03-16T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:58:01","slug":"wait-a-minute-whos-fascist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18904","title":{"rendered":"Wait a Minute–Who’s Fascist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wait a Minute–Who’s Fascist?<\/a><\/h3>\n

The core belief of the Establishment is the central state should run everything.<\/i><\/p>\n

If you’re an Establishment insider, the mainstream media will give you plenty of column inches and airtime to label Donald Trump a “dangerous” fascist:<\/b>\u00a0for example, Democratic insider Robert Reich’s fear-mongering frenzy\u00a0Donald Trump is a 21st century American fascist<\/a>, in which Reich conveniently overlooks constitutional limits on any president, “fascist” or not.<\/p>\n

In effect, Reich is announcing the Constitution is dead and powerless to limit the President.<\/b>\u00a0Well, if that’s the problem, then why not attack the\u00a0real problem<\/i>, which is\u00a0the Imperial Presidency<\/i>? Why not? Reich served an Imperial President as a loyal lackey, that’s why–and he remains an energetic supporter of the central state and its bread-and-circuses institutionalized serfdom.<\/p>\n

If you’re an Establishment insider, you’ll get ample opportunities in the corporate media to label Bernie Sanders a “dangerous” socialist.<\/b>\u00a0You don’t even have to be a member of the “vast right-wing conspiracy” (a staple of the Clintons’ attack strategy)–any insider can get airtime to label Sanders as “dangerous”–either because he’s socialist, or because he’s not radical enough. Any attack will do, and you’ll get plenty of opportunity to flesh out any attack, no matter how biased or nonsensical.<\/p>\n

It is of course classic Orwellian Doublespeak to label any threat to one’s power “fascist,” and to laud one’s corrupt and venal allies as “freedom fighters,” but the Establishment’s panicked reliance on accusations of fascism is new and yes, dangerous.<\/b>\u00a0So let’s step back and ask–precisely who’s the fascist here?<\/p>\n

It turns out that the definition of fascism widely attributed to Mussolini–\u00a0“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power”<\/i>–has no provenance: researchers cannot find this quote in any original source material.<\/p>\n

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Wait a Minute–Who’s Fascist? The core belief of the Establishment is the central state should run everything. If you’re an Establishment insider, the mainstream media will give you plenty of column inches and airtime to label Donald Trump a “dangerous” fascist:\u00a0for example, Democratic insider Robert Reich’s fear-mongering frenzy\u00a0Donald Trump is a 21st century American fascist, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5434,11055,127,12972,7844,10726,1491,1120,12970,496,8574,4924,12971,9338,838],"class_list":["post-18904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-central-state","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-corporate-power","tag-donald-trump","tag-establishment","tag-fascism","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-imperial-presidency","tag-mainstream-media","tag-mussolini","tag-oftwominds","tag-orwellian-doublespeak","tag-robert-reich","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18905,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions\/18905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}