Friday, December 16, 2016

Courtesy of Robert Reich, here's a quote from FDR's VP Henry Wallace that rings eerily true 72 years later:

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity .…They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”

Having absorbed volumes about Mussolini many years ago, I see in Trump a pattern so similar that it's as if he's following a script.  Listen/observe in macro, not to one or two specific comments.  He is a master of obfuscation and double-speak, but if you cut out the noise and concentrate on the substance his path is very obvious.  Unable to be taken seriously by career politicians, he is coalescing those with economic and military power in an effort to wrest political power for himself.  Trump doesn't want to be President, he wants to be El Duce.

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