Soup's Fascist Ideology Homework

For the generation that lived through World War II, the words fascism, National Socialism, and Nazism raise indescribably horrible pictures of brutality and inhumanity. Today the words fascist and Nazi are too often used loosely to refer to any authoritarian countries and individuals, but such loose usage obscures both the history and the fact that fascist and national socialist movements based on, and similar to, the earlier movements exist today in many countries, including the United States. In what sense, do you think that fascist and Nazi doctrines are irrational? Do you equate today’s ultranationalists (Chapter 2) with fascist and Nazi’s glorification of the state? 

For the generation that lived through World War II, the words fascism, National Socialism, and Nazism raise indescribably horrible pictures of brutality and inhumanity. Today the words fascist and Nazi are too often used loosely to refer to any authoritarian countries and individuals, but such loose usage obscures both the history and the fact that fascist and national socialist movements based on, and similar to, the earlier movements exist today in many countries, including the United States. In what sense, do you think that fascist and Nazi doctrines are irrational? Do you equate today’s ultranationalists (Chapter 2) with fascist and Nazi’s glorification of the state? 


In what sense do I think that fascist and Nazi doctrines are irrational? WONderful question. Fascists are those whose very irrationality, esp. when confronted about issues of science, race, or economic ‘freedom’, defines them as fascists. When I speak with some on the religious right, I face much of this same irrationality (women SHOULD be subjugated, the Earth is 6000 years old, prayer should be led by teachers in the classroom even in public schools, esp. in public schools) and racism (black people are marked by their skin as sinners of an even worse variety than this writer, welfare is taking from makers and Democrats use welfare to buy votes from black people). 


The overtly nationalistic tendency of the GOP, too, such as the statement by the chairman of the national party, Reince Preibus, that America is a strictly Christian nation and the GOP is the only party of GOD, ought to serve as a reminder of how closely religion and state, when intertwined but not overtly theocratic, LOOKS like fascism in its consequences.

To address the irrationality of the Nazi party—let me say that there is no one superior race and leave it at that.

There is most certainly an equation, and yes, some may say that Democrats ‘glorify’ the state, but those are people who see worse news every day even if ferrets start weeping stock dividends and those same ferrets were growing on trees outside every fire house. In other words, they see their allegiance to a America that may have once existed, if only in the nightmares of little children. Back to the days when joining the KKK was the same as attending Rotary Club meeting—acceptable—that is where fascist Americans (David Barton, pseudo-historian Christian Nationalist Recontructionist Dominionist Texas pol come to mind) would lead us were we to ignore their stated goals and blindly follow them. 

Yes, IT could happen here. Read up on the Dominionists, classmates, and the Sovereign Citizens too…the Patriot movement in America is the real fascist deal, yo.



Also, PLEASE stop calling the President a fascist, PLEASE? You wnt authoritarian dictatorship, look at Argentina's dirty war and the DISAPPEARED.

We have studied in Chapter 6 about the extreme right in the United States. Some groups in the United States are clearly fascistic, and others explicitly align themselves with National Socialism. The focus of the neo-fascist Right in the United States was, until recently, race, with anti-Semitism still particularly important. What do you think of the social milieu that gives rise to the neo-fascist revival? Some claim that this is the nature of the United States that all ideas are protected by the Constitution as outlined in the Bill of Rights. Do you agree? Or are those extreme ideas deep-rooted, requiring an historical explanation?




I have researched the Seven Mountains movement (I have mentioned them here on the discussion board a few time) for a few years now as a hobby, and found that Frederick Clarkson is a notable expert. He says “Dominionists celebrate Christian nationalism, in that they believe the United States once was, and should again be, a Christian nation. In this way, they deny the Enlightenment roots of American democracy, they promote religious supremacy, insofar as they generally do not respect the equality of other religions, or even other versions of Christianity and they endorse theocratic visions, believing that the Ten Commandments, or "biblical law," should be the foundation of American law, and that the U.S. Constitution should be seen as a vehicle for implementing Biblical principles.” So, nationalism, irrationality, glorification of the state (even if a mythical one, esp. a mythical one) social Darwinism (think the Ryan Budget plan), the leadership principle (the New Apostolic Reformation, a wing or offshoot of dominionism, relies heavily on Apostles for leadership as a central authority for determining the true will of gawd), Racism (Barack HUSSEIN Obama), and, finally, anti-communism. Think, Grover Norquist, the Americans for Tax Reform guy I’ve mentioned before, and his effort t name every darn bathroom along the interstate after Ronald Reagan. Why? He DEFEATED Communism, all by his lonesome. Point being, this IS a dangerous group, and the fact that they are built out of such a wide coalition of ideologies, melting into a very Fascist, neo-corporatist one, well….all I’m saying is, vote for the party that says voting is a good thing, not the party that says they are the party of GAWD.