Published: July 1, 2019
1) Lawrence Britt: 14 Characteristics
2) Umberto Eco’s: 2003 article
Transcript
well howdy there internet people let’sbow again so tonight we’re going to talkabout 14 characteristics and ten stagesif you know where this is going to stickaround you’re gonna find out somethingyou don’t know at the end so I’m gonnalist 14 characteristics of a certainkind of government give you examples ofthe ones that aren’t plainly obvious andthen we’re going to talk about somethingelseso those fourteen characteristics firstof which is powerful and continuingdisplays of nationalism you know pictureflags on everything very patrioticslogans Trump hugging the flag the nextis a disdain for human rights thatshould be plainly obvious you knowsupport of torture black sitesconcentration camps that sort of thingidentifying enemies and scapegoats usand them those Muslims those thoseillegals we got enough of the bad peopleare right the others supremacy of themilitary in these regimes even if thereare widespread problems at home themilitary receives a ridiculous portionof the budget like here rampant sexismthat one should be obvious grabber bythe she’s a good pizza yeah she waspretty obvious the other thing that’sinteresting is that in this categoryalso is included discrimination againstgays and opposition to abortion seemscooler along the nose doesn’t it justsee you know this was written in 2003it wasn’t tailor-made for Trump it justseems like it is control of the massmedia is really important to these kindsof regimes maybe suggesting that there’sa state-run news outlet to counter allthe fake newsthere’s a an obsession with nationalsecurity and this is more aboutgoverning through fear we’ve got to tellyou who to be afraid of so we can tellyou we’re gonna protect you from themand you’ll give us your rights in orderto do that it’s what it’s about theblending of religion and government nowthis is really just innately Americanthere’s always been religious rhetoricin government since very early on veryearly on the one ripe I have with thislist is it says that corporate power isprotected whereas most other experts onthis subject would say that corporatepower and government are blended notjust protected and this would be youknow the privatization of governmentfunctions like prisons detainmentfacilities contracting along the borderthese kinds of things and an obsessionwith the corporate well-being ofentities within the country laborsuppression now that one’s a little alittle more obscure but let’s just sayin the u.s. there are two agencies thatdeal with unions one regulates theunions and make sure that they’re notdoing anything wrong the other regulatesthe companies that have unions one ofthese had their budgets slashed the onethat regulates the companies the otherhad their budget increase the one thatregulates the unions a disdain forintellectuals in the arts I loveuneducated voters an obsession withcrime and punishment I’ll pardon thosepeople that do stuff wrong because youwant to punish those you feel that aredoing something illegal and it extendsto creating a situation where the policecan get away with anything bang theirhead you don’t have to treat them tooniceKoni ISM and corruption I’m fairlycertain that nepotism would fall underthat or using government funds to go toyour own hotels and then the last one isfraudulent elections see the most recentSupreme Court case most of the time thisis accomplished through judicial reviewand gerrymandering these are thefourteen characteristics of fascism youare here to those that are saying wellthat doesn’t sound so bad there’s neverbeen a fascist regime in history thatdid not go through these ten stages thefirst of which is classification that’swhere you divide them up us and themgood guys and bad guysthe next is symbolization where wedefine them by other terms you know notpeople but illegals maybe come up withother terms to use them for and wecreate a mascot form a boogeyman toscare everybody with like ms-13 next isdiscrimination and that is where westart to deny the rights nowhistorically this is done throughlegislation in the u.s. we’re justsaying oh they don’t have them becausethey’re illegal but they doconstitutionally that precedent has beenset for a very very very long timethe next is dehumanization and you knowthat’s where they become animals anddisease carriers why we’ve got to checkthem at the border right because they’reall just dirty brown people so really onthe nose isn’t it the next stage isorganization and that’s where themilitias start to pop up and you see alot of replacements in governmentpositions shaking things up and there’sa cuttin a lot of times it’s adecentralized network that pulls thisstuff togetherthen there’s polarization and that’swhere you have hate groups start toemergeand become very vocal and theymainstream these ideasdon’t worry though there’s nice peopleon both sides then we get to preparationand this is more mental preparation ofyou where they start using terms likepurifying the nation mass removal wellthey won’t assimilate they’re not reallypart of us are a we’ve got to dosomething about and then we get topersecution and that’s concentrationcamps that’s when those show up you arehere the next step the next stage isextermination the stage after that isdenial yeah that’s that’s where crapwe’re really close and right now there’speople saying you know we’re not goingto commit genocide that’s ridiculousmm-hmm maybe but genocide like the termethnic cleansing is misunderstood in theUnited States genocide doesn’t just meanmass killings it’s not what it meanslike ethnic cleansing and genocide arenot interchangeable termsaetna cleansing could be renaming streetsigns if at the end of World War twowhen we had control of Berlin we renamedall the roads after us generals thatwould be ethnic cleansing that there’sthe common usage and then there’s thelegal term under the legal term ofgenocide there are five components fivethings that qualify one is the forcibletransfer of children to another groupthat one’s already happening not justtheir adoption but in a truly Americantwist we’re taking them and putting theminto facilities where because of thecronyism our friends are making moneythat one’s already happening the nextone is to prevent births from thattarget group because you know we got toget rid of those anchor babies rightalready happening deliberatelyinflicting poor conditions on that groupand in hopes of destroying them in partsuch as well you know they don’t needsoap toothbrushes or beds food alreadyhappening doing things to intentionallycause them physical and mental harmchild separation the conditions in thesecamps already happening in fact the onlyone that isn’t happening under the thelegal definition the genocide is masskillings that’s it you are hereit’s a little sobering but it’ssomething that I think we really need topay attention to you have all of thesethese lists that have been around a longlong time and we’re matching them upalmost like we’re following them like ablueprint and nobody wants to dare callit what it isI don’t normally at the end of my videosI don’t normally say hey share thisshare this one there there are peoplethat need to understand this they needto understand where we’re at becausevery soon they’re gonna have their haveto make a choice are they gonna doubledown on their mistake or are they gonnaattempt to correct it are they gonnaspeak out anyway it’s just a faulty’all have a good night
Let’s talk about Flynn and comments….
Published: Nov 15, 2021
Michael Flynn: If we’re going to have One Nation Under God (which we must), We need ONE RELIGION.
The 10 tactics of fascism | Jason Stanley | Big Think
Fascism is a cult of the leader, who promises national restoration in the face of supposed humiliation by immigrants, leftists, liberals, minorities, homosexuals, women, in the face of what the fascist leader says is a takeover of the country’s media, cultural institutions, schools by these forces.
Fascist movements typically, though not invariably, rest on an urban/rural divide. The cities are where there’s decadence, where the elites congregate, where there’s immigrants, and where there’s criminality.
Each of these individuals alone is not in and of itself fascist, but you have to worry when they’re all grouped together, seeing the other as less than. Those moments are the times when societies need to worry about fascism.
Read the video transcript: https://bigthink.com/videos/what-is-f…
Loyalty to the dominant group means law-abidingness.06:00And the minority group is by its nature not law-abiding.06:06Law and order in fascist politics means the members06:10of a minority group who accept their subservient role,06:15they’re law-abiding,06:16and the members of the dominant group06:18by their very nature are law-abiding.06:20By definition, the leader can’t violate law and order.06:24So law and order doesn’t mean justice.06:27Law and order doesn’t mean equality.06:29Law and order structures who’s legitimate and who’s not.06:35Everywhere around the world,06:36no matter what the situation is,06:39in very different socioeconomic conditions,06:42the fascist leader comes and tells you,06:44“Your women and children are under threat.06:46You need a strong man to protect your families.”06:50They make conservatives hysterically afraid06:53of transgender rights or homosexuality,06:57other ways of living.06:58These are not people trying to live their own lives.07:02They’re trying to destroy your life,07:03and they’re coming after your children.07:05What the fascist politician does is they take conservatives07:09who aren’t fascist at all, and they say,07:11“Look, I know you might not like my ways.07:14You might think I’m a womanizer.07:16You might think I’m violent in my rhetoric.07:18But you need someone like me now.07:20You need someone like me ’cause homosexuality,07:23it isn’t just trying for equality.07:25It’s coming after your family.”07:29Fascist movements typically, though not invariably,07:33rest on an urban/rural divide.07:36The cities are where there’s decadence,07:38where the elites congregate, where there’s immigrants,07:42there’s criminality, there’s Sodom and Gomorrah.07:45In the city, there’s not real work.07:48The pure, hard-working, real members of the nation live07:53in the rural areas, where they work hard with their hands.07:57When our politicians talk about inner-city voters08:00or urban voters, we all know what they mean.08:05Arbeit macht frei, “Work shall make you free.”08:08This was written on the gates of Auschwitz.08:11The idea is that the minority group, they’re lazy,08:16and they need to be made to work.08:17Free labor.08:19The minority group and the leftists,08:21they’re lazy by their nature,08:23and it gives them a work ethic.08:25Labor unions are run by communists08:28who are trying to make things easier.08:30Hard work is a virtue.08:32In liberal democracy,08:34we don’t value people by how hard they work.08:37What would happen to disabled people who can’t work?08:40They would then have no value.08:41It’s why the Nazis had the T4 program to murder the disabled08:46because the disabled were Lebenunwertes Leben,08:50life unworthy of life,08:52because to be valued was to be capable of hard work.08:56Each of these individual elements is not08:58in and of itself fascist,09:00but you have to worry when they’re all grouped together,09:03when honest conservatives are lured into fascism09:06by people who tell them, “Look, it’s an existential fight.09:09I know you don’t accept everything we do.09:12You don’t accept every doctrine.09:14But your family is under threat.09:16Your family is at risk.09:17So without us, you’re in peril.”09:20Those moments are the times09:23when we need to worry about fascism.
14 Characteristics of Fascism-“Lite” in the US
Published: Nov 8, 2020
Lawrence Britt: 14 Characteristics
Transcript:
well howdy there internet people it’sbeau againso today we’re gonna talk about aquestion i got umbecause it kind of threw me through aloop pretty thought provokingactually when you really get down to itum it was about systems of governmentand it was trying to determineif there was a uha comparable system to social democracyon the other side and basicallythe idea of the question was iunderstand that socialdemocracy is kind of a blend ofsocialism and capitalism it’s socialismlightis there something on the other side isthere something in the right wingthat is a blendbetween normal capitalism normal westerngovernments as we know itand fascismleads to an interesting place sowe’ve got our list the one we’ve beenusing on this channel which isuh put out by lawrence britt i think ishis name 14 characteristicsof fascism to be clear i use this onebecauseit is it tends to speak to americansmoreit’s more practical there are otherliststhat break down the characteristicsthere’s one by umberto echobut this is more practical rather thanphilosophicalso it’s the one that i tend to use ifyou really want to get into the subjectyou might want to look at the others toookay so the first one is powerful andcontinuingnationalism now if you’re looking at alightversion you would just kind of lightenit up so maybe you don’t havethe marches and parades all the timebut you have like flags everywhereso much so that it kind of loses meaningbecomes more like a bumper sticker asports team logothan a display of the nationit’s something that everybody feels istheirsymbol disdain for the recognition ofhuman rightsso you want to lighten it up maybe it’snot overtyou know maybe it’s not legislated thatpeople don’t have human rightshowever if you know somebody that’saccused of a crime gets roughed up alittle bitnobody’s going to cry over it you knowin this case it’s going to be more defacto it’s going to be stuff thatjust happens rather than it beinginstitutionalizedidentification of enemies and scapegoatsis a unifying causenow when you’re talking about the overtversion of this it’stypically an internal enemythat they get scapegoated ifit’s a light version it would probablybe externalyou know well the ones of that groupthat are inside the countrythey’re different they’re okay but we’regonna all rally around the ideathat those on the other side of the lineon the map they’re badsupremacy of the military so in a lightversion you could imagine thatrather than it just basically havingcontrol of the entire governmentit uh itmaybe has a place of honor that isyou know really revered and probablygets the biggest share of the budgetrampant sexism again this would besomething that’s a de factoit’s a male-dominated society butthere’s not legislationthat backs up a whole lot of it it’sjustthe way it is because traditionis also a characteristic that uhgoes along with this system but thatgets into the philosophical listcontrolled mass media sorather than it being overt andthe government just basically tellingthe news organizations what to saymaybe it’s just more collusion maybeit’s more of the mediaparroting the government talking pointsso they can get accessand so everybody’s on the same pageagain it’s just de facto it’s just theway it is in practicerather than something that’sinstitutionalizedobsession with national securityin regimes like this i don’t think youwould findum a light version i think you wouldstill have a mazeof agencies that were devoted tonational security and anytime thegovernment needed something donethat’s the card they would pull becausethey would have thatthat reverence for the military alreadyestablishedso they’d be able to gain compliancefrom the population by kind of pullingthat cardwe need to do this so we don’t have tosend our troops over therewe just need you to comply and do whatwe ask it’s going to keep you safereligion and government are intertwinedagain they’re going to want to keep upthe facadeof some form of liberal democratdemocracyso it probably wouldn’t be legislationit wouldn’t be institutionalizedbut there would be like little ritualsto show that you were on the right teammaybe youswear in on a holy text when you takeofficeyou know there’d be little things thatyou would do to demonstrate thatyou were one of the good guys you werepart of the clubcorporate power is protected and that’sone of the ones on this list that ireally object toin the overt form it’s not protectedit’s blendedthe government has a lot of controldirect controlof corporate power in that systemif you’re just talking about corporatepower being protected it’s what you havein the united statesi mean that that’s what it is the thegovernment looks out for corporateinterest for the sake of the economyand that’s how it gets framed but it’salso for their own personal benefitlabor power is suppressed it probablywouldn’t be as brutalas you find in the over regimes it wouldbe morelegislation that just underminescollective bargainingmakes it harder to unionize and justundercuts the rights of the workerdisdain for intellectuals in the artsso it probably wouldn’t be openhostilityit would just besomething that they didn’t encouragemaybe they don’t fund artin school they don’t teach theappreciation of itand they don’t encourage the youth to beintellectual so it just goes by thewayside on itselfall all by itself there’s no reason forthe government topush against it too hard they’re justgoing to let it fade outobsession with crime and punishment soyou’d probably have a huge prisonpopulation in a regimeoperating under a blend like thisrampant cronyism and corruptionso what you’d have is like no bidcontractsyou’d have government officials giving[Music]jobs and construction contracts to theircousins and stuff like thatthat’s what you’d find again it wouldn’tbe overtthe last one is fraudulent elections youprobably wouldn’t see any of thisnot much because they’d want to keep upthe facadethat it isn’t one of those regimesso it would just be controlled in adifferent mannerperhaps the major partieswould keep everything in houseand really only give you a coupleoptionsbut they’d want to keep that one atleast the appearanceof legitimate electionssounds really familiar doesn’t ityeah if you want to know what fascismlight looks likelook out the window the united statesis the blendum that’s one of the reasons it’s soimportant that we watchfor the creep towards the overtreal thing because we’re already reallyclose to itwe’ve talked about it before on thischannel even ourleft wing party in the united statesis center right because the country isthat far right to begin withif you’re talking about a blend betweenfascismand the idea of western liberaldemocracyit’s the usthat that’s where we’re at already wewouldn’t need to go anywhereit already exists umagain i think it’s an interesting littlethought exercise and something i’d neverthought of beforenobody’s ever asked um that’s probablyone of the biggestdangers to the united states as a wholeis the creep that direction further andfurther rightto an authoritarian ruleespecially when it’s done slowlyand it’s this soft form of it that wedon’t even realize is there so much sothat we don’t even think about itbecause it’s justthe way it is it’s just tradition it’sde factoanyway it’s just a thought y’all have agood day