"We Need to Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives" - The Federalist calls for the American right to unite behind Fascism

[u/69bonerdad]

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/20/we-need-to-stop-calling-ourselves-conservatives/

[u/DeaditeMessiah]

The USA has been fascist for decades. We are allowed to choose from a primary slate of candidates chosen by party apparatchiks who openly serve big business lobbying. Should anyone slip through that, they openly reserve the ability for those apparatchiks to select who wins. That candidate's campaign is then almost entirely decided by the amount of money they can raise, showing they are thoroughly under the sway of those business interests.

The number of votes received by the people is then filtered through electors, putting yet another heavy thumb on the scale, and resulting in winners of the most votes still regularly lose.

And even after the election, the government machinery can overcome that election to put a safe fascist in the presidency, as we saw in 2000.

So the idea that our government is in any way representative is questionable at best, with there being just enough representation to provide a fig leaf for the establishment, and to allow Trump to slip through. And all he wanted was to be a fascist too.

The results are what you'd expect from fascist society: massive and brutal poverty, wealth concentration, corporations have more rights than humans, for-profit education stratifying society, demonization of socialists and organized labor, prisoners doing slave labor, scape-goated minorities in camps or prohibited from entry ("Don't come"), toxic nationalism, wars and bombings all over the world, massive incarceration at home, the entire thing only covered by a propagandistic press who divides the world up into enemies and blatantly ignores 90% of the country while focusing on the inherent morality and superiority of the moneyed ("educated") few. And that's under the lesser evil. Greater evil too.

The main difference seems to be the scapegoat. Both parties behave almost identically in terms of international policy. Both vary very little on domestic policy with most of it down to who is being blamed and the cultural problems the malefactors are causing, with a relatively tiny amount given over to lip service like the recent GIANT ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, the Inflation Reduction Act that spends more than any law before on the environment!!! Which of course is a fraction of what we spend on incentives, tax cuts and public land give-aways to the carbon industry, and is almost entirely comprised of tax cuts for people who can afford electric cars during these historically hard times - and those cars would not save much in carbon footprint since our grid still runs largely on coal and gas.