And for little gain? Maybe I should just try to ignore all the evidence against fascism—thirst for power, greediness, ineptitude, and criminal malfeasance—are taking over the US and the world, how few competent politicians remain who I might believe could stop all of it, and all the nasty power struggles the others generate both here and abroad that ordinary, good human beings have to face and suffer through.
The hard work of writing these posts is my choice, of course…no one is forcing me to become a masochist, after all. There’s some creativity involved that comes from my experience as an author, from inventing nicknames like wannabe Il Dulce and Narcissus le Grand for the “fucking moron” in the White House (the latter’s not mine, but our fascist’s first-term SecState’s), J. Done-Nothing and Hogsbreath for that fascist’s current VP and SecDef (not SecWar!); to analyzing that fascist master plan to destroy US democracy, “Project 2025”; to more than two wars: Russia vs. Europe and Israel vs. the rest of the Arab world are the main ones, where Narcissus le Grand thought he might get the peace prize. Thank God he didn’t—his head’s already as big as his butt, so maybe President “Butt-Head” is a better nickname? The only “prize” he really deserves is a firing squad for attempting a coup on January 6, 2021!
So why bother writing these posts when it’s akin to beating my head against the wall? That’s a question surprisingly easy to answer, at least for me: It’s like Galileo shouting to his inquisitors, “It does move!” Or Patrick Henry protesting King George, “Give me liberty or give me death!” And many other strong statements made against human beings’ stupidity so often exhibited over the centuries when they trust murderous autocrats and tyrants who make false, fascist promises.
These posts are therefore my protests at the encroaching darkness of fascism, now more a danger than even Hitler’s Nazism or Soviet communism because today’s fascists have a lot better technical tools to support their takeovers and exploitation of human beings. Those tools include the internet, of course, so I’m really fighting fire with fire.
You see, after living among and observing fascists and analyzing fascism all my life, I’ve concluded that fascism is a non-ideological but highly infectious mental disease of the body politic, there is no vaccine against it, and both the far-left and far-right can easily succumb to it. (Just consider Maduro and Ortega of Venezuela and Nicaragua to Bolsonaro of Brazil.) If you insist on talking about the “political spectrum,” i.e., left to right or liberal to conservative, I’ll throw it right back at you: That spectrum is not linear; it curves around on itself to join in a point called “fascism,” where greed and desire for power become the dominant motivations.
That’s why the most dangerous man in the world right now is the “fucking moron” in the White House, enabled by his mafia-like family and other sycophants. They’re all part of one big worldwide mafia organization operating on an international scale…and our fascist in the White House is armed with nukes! And they’re all a danger to human beings’ future on this planet that’s so rapidly becoming a fascist world!
It’s time for all good men and women to stand up to fascists. I get some satisfaction from doing what little I can here to support these battles in this war against fascism to save the minds and spirits of the world’s good people. I’m just a writer; words are my only weapons. I can only hope that sometimes (or someday?) they might be stronger than the fascists’, especially if we all rise up and form a mighty chorus of millions…all against fascism!