I wasn’t going to mention this day in infamy, the day when the “f&^%ing moron” and his rabid followers tried to stage a coup at the Capitol. But the politicians’ treatment of the day, studied neglect from one side and incorrect posturing and platitudes from the other, force me to write this missive to my fellow Americans.
Responsible media outlets (that eliminates anything to do with Fox, of course, and most social media) decry the trend toward authoritarian regimes in the US and around the world. What I can’t understand is their tiptoeing around the correct word to use in describing this phenomenon. It’s fascism! Say it like it is!
Trump was just a stupid tool of the plutocratic fascists, no better than a ventriloquist’s dummy, but he was a warped personality the true scheming fascists could hide behind and manipulate. All they had to do was appeal to the ego of this psychotic sociopath to manipulate him. (His mental aberration is so apparent that many mental health pros recognized it immediately for what it is, including his own niece.) And the fascist plutocrats knew that, like Hitler, other crazy fascists would follow him like lemmings right over the cliff into the dark, turgid waters of fascism. He was the perfect dupe to morph the Republican Party into the Fascist Party of America.
This January 6 is not an inflection point. Neither was the last one. An inflection point in politics is a turn from one type of behavior to another, and neither the last nor this one qualifies. No, that day in infamy was an omen for bad things to come, a turn to the dark side of human nature, a return to fascism. It was a tipping point towards disaster, an indication that America, once that light of freedom and representative democracy for the world, was falling into the cesspool of fascism.
This January 6, we should only be mourning that we haven’t been able to stop that fall.
Readers, welcome to the Fascist States of America, brought to you by the Fascist Party of America, formally known as the Republican Party.