Cuba USA
by Manuel E. Yepe
A CubaNews translation.
The former are paragraphs in an article published by the influential digital journal Truthdig from a comment written by its regular columnist, Chris Hedges, under the title “The Revenge of the Lower Classes and The Rise of American Fascism”. It warns that “these Americans want a kind of freedom – a freedom to hate. They want the freedom to idealize violence and the gun culture. They want the freedom to have enemies, to physically assault Muslims, undocumented workers, African-Americans, homosexuals…”
“They want the freedom to celebrate historical movements and figures that the college-educated elites condemn, including the Ku Klux Klan and the Confederacy. They want the freedom to ridicule and dismiss intellectuals, ideas, science and culture. They want the freedom to silence those who have been telling them how to behave.”
“And they want the freedom to revel in hyper-masculinity, racism, sexism and white patriarchy. These are the core sentiments of fascism.
These sentiments are engendered by the collapse of the liberal state.”
The article maintains that the Democrats are playing a very dangerous game by anointing Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate. She epitomizes the double-dealing of the college-educated elites, those who speak the feel-your-pain language of ordinary men and women, who hold up the bible of political correctness, while selling out the poor and the working class to corporate power.
The Republicans, energized by America’s reality-star version of Il Duce, Donald Trump, have been pulling in voters, especially new voters, while the Democrats are well below the voter turnout for 2008.
In the voting Tuesday, 5.6 million votes were cast for the Democrats while 8.3 million went to the Republicans. Those numbers were virtually reversed in 2008 – 8.2 million for the Democrats and about 5 million for the Republicans.
In the work published at his regular weekly column in Truthdig, Chris Hedges says that the language and symbols of an authentic American fascism would, of course, have little to do with the original European
models. They would have to be as familiar and reassuring to loyal Americans as the language and symbols of the original fascisms were familiar and reassuring to many Italians and Germans, and he quotes George Orwell when he says that “Hitler and Mussolini, after all, had not tried to seem exotic to their fellow citizens”.
No swastikas in an American fascism, but Stars and Stripes (or Stars and Bars) and Christian crosses. No fascist salute, but mass recitations of the pledge of allegiance. These symbols contain no whiff of fascism in themselves “to avoid detection by the internal enemy”.
Hedges concluded by saying that if Hillary Clinton prevails in the general election Trump may disappear, but the fascist sentiments will expand. “Tremendous damage has been done by corporate power and the college-educated elites to our capitalist democracy. The elites, who oversaw this phenomenon in the country on behalf of corporations believing that if could be a bad triumph for America but it would be at least good for corporate profit, will see that the worse is still to come.
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Cuba USA
Fascism, revenge of the poor in the USA
by Manuel E. Yepe
A CubaNews translation.
The Trump phenomenon which has apparently surprised specialists in the study of the US electoral system as well as observers from all tendencies and preferences has also served to alert many about the imminent danger of fascism in the heart of world capitalism. “College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor. Now they are being made to pay. Their duplicity –embodied in politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama– succeeded for decades. These elites, many from East Coast Ivy League schools, spoke the language of values –civility, inclusivity, a condemnation of overt racism and bigotry, a concern for the middle class– while thrusting a knife into the back of the underclass for their corporate masters. This game has ended.”
“There are tens of millions of Americans, especially lower-class whites, rightfully enraged at what has been done to them, their families and their communities. They have risen up to reject the neoliberal policies and political correctness imposed on them by college-educated elites from both political parties: Lower-class whites are embracing an American fascism.”
The former are paragraphs in an article published by the influential digital journal Truthdig from a comment written by its regular columnist, Chris Hedges, under the title “The Revenge of the Lower Classes and The Rise of American Fascism”. It warns that “these Americans want a kind of freedom – a freedom to hate. They want the freedom to idealize violence and the gun culture. They want the freedom to have enemies, to physically assault Muslims, undocumented workers, African-Americans, homosexuals…”
“They want the freedom to celebrate historical movements and figures that the college-educated elites condemn, including the Ku Klux Klan and the Confederacy. They want the freedom to ridicule and dismiss intellectuals, ideas, science and culture. They want the freedom to silence those who have been telling them how to behave.”
“And they want the freedom to revel in hyper-masculinity, racism, sexism and white patriarchy. These are the core sentiments of fascism.
These sentiments are engendered by the collapse of the liberal state.”
The article maintains that the Democrats are playing a very dangerous game by anointing Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate. She epitomizes the double-dealing of the college-educated elites, those who speak the feel-your-pain language of ordinary men and women, who hold up the bible of political correctness, while selling out the poor and the working class to corporate power.
The Republicans, energized by America’s reality-star version of Il Duce, Donald Trump, have been pulling in voters, especially new voters, while the Democrats are well below the voter turnout for 2008.
In the voting Tuesday, 5.6 million votes were cast for the Democrats while 8.3 million went to the Republicans. Those numbers were virtually reversed in 2008 – 8.2 million for the Democrats and about 5 million for the Republicans.
In the work published at his regular weekly column in Truthdig, Chris Hedges says that the language and symbols of an authentic American fascism would, of course, have little to do with the original European
models. They would have to be as familiar and reassuring to loyal Americans as the language and symbols of the original fascisms were familiar and reassuring to many Italians and Germans, and he quotes George Orwell when he says that “Hitler and Mussolini, after all, had not tried to seem exotic to their fellow citizens”.
No swastikas in an American fascism, but Stars and Stripes (or Stars and Bars) and Christian crosses. No fascist salute, but mass recitations of the pledge of allegiance. These symbols contain no whiff of fascism in themselves “to avoid detection by the internal enemy”.
Hedges concluded by saying that if Hillary Clinton prevails in the general election Trump may disappear, but the fascist sentiments will expand. “Tremendous damage has been done by corporate power and the college-educated elites to our capitalist democracy. The elites, who oversaw this phenomenon in the country on behalf of corporations believing that if could be a bad triumph for America but it would be at least good for corporate profit, will see that the worse is still to come.
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