5 ways, plus one, to build a FascismFree America

5 September 2009

Sara Robinson
Cognitive Policy Works

I read your essay “Is the US on the Brink of Fascism?” on Truthout.org. Not to put too fine a point on it, but you are about 50 years behind the curve.

In 1962, the Students for a Democratic Society and the Young Americans for Freedom were organized and they represent what has become the liberal fascist wing of the American body politic and the conservative fascist wing of the American body politic.

One of the founders of the SDS was a guy named Frank Burns, who was an Army brat and in the ROTC at the time. He had to kiss some major ass to gain his commission, but he became a Green Beret and was the guy who coined the phrase “Be All You Can Be” in a later incarnation. He was about the same age as Newt Gingrich and Phil Gramm, both of whom were Army brats, as am I, though about 7 years younger.. At that time, counter-insurgency was the hot career path, thanks to JFK, and for young male Army brats, growing up in the shadow of the McCarthy-Army hearings, Marx, Lenin and Trotsky were far a more familiar subject of curiosity than today. Frank knew exactly what he was doing when he designed the SDS processes as a Trotsky-inspired movement and America came as close to blowing up in 1968 as we need to get. The SDS basically died when the draft ended, but the liberal fascists evolved into McGovernites and then into the Democratic Leadership Council and are basically running the DNC, as represented by Rahm Emmanuel, among others.

William F. Buckley, Jr., was the founder of the YAF and was a congenital, hard-wired and hereditary fascist. Where the SDS was composed largely of white male anti-war draft dodgers, the YAF (aka Young America Fascists) were white male pro-war draft dodgers, a classic example being R. Emmett Tyrell (sp?) the founder of the Spectator. I was at Indiana University when he brought out the first edition when ever it was and the buzz on campus before it came out was that a new literary periodical was to be launched. I mean, you got to admit, anyone calling themselves “The Spectator” has a certain literary legacy to surmount. And when it came out, it didn’t quite rise to the level of sophomoric. My sister put out a better magazine in high school. It was, and remains, the Harvard Lampoon without the clever sex but with the fart jokes. What I didn’t realize until I saw Harvard Beats Yale 29 – 29 was that Yale was the epicenter of conservative fascism.

Fascism is a form of idolatry. The take-over of Harvard by the SDS in 1968 was an initiative by liberal fascists. Kent State scared most of the white male draft dodgers out of the SDS and into conformity with conservative fascism and the Harvard Business ethic completed the conversion to ‘60’s hippies to 21th Century Ditto Heads. The only constant is the false god of Narcissism, i.e. Ayn Rand’s self-esteem.

In 1981, the Reagan Revolution brought conservative fascism into the Oval Office and I began to issue the same warnings of the ascendancy of Fascism through commentary associated with APPLESEED ENTERPRISES. Nobody listened. Go read George Gilder’s Wealth and Poverty, which is a manifesto for white supremacy, which is the organizing principle of Supply Side economics, also referred to as the laissez-faire, gold-based, Free Market principles of William F. Buckley, Jr.,’s conservatism. Supply Side economics replaced the Free Enterprise progressive federalism Reagan inherited and became the law of the land with the 1986 Tax Reform Act and the economic collapse over the last couple of years is a direct result.

A problem is that both liberal fascists and conservative fascists embrace Supply Side economics. The only difference between the economics of Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich is that Clinton tends to enfold “altruism” (in Ayn Rand’s sense of the word) into his calculus, while Gingrich cheerfully weighs any social capital against the virtue of selfishness (in Ayn Rand’s sense of the word). And this is the reason why the Obama administration is getting its ass handed to it in the health care debate: conservative fascists are fighting on their home turf, cognitively speaking, and have always been better at it then liberal fascists, who all share a collective guilt for embracing “altruism” to cover up their own secret core of rot. This is exactly the fulcrum Rush Limbaugh employs to great advantage and it is the lesson that Clinton never seemed to learn, which is, when you split the difference with the devil, the devil has won by definition.

Without any desire to pick a fight, but it strikes me that the collective paradigm of everyone contributing to the blogs associated with Cognitive Policy Works and Organizing for America et al are liberal fascists. Don’t flatter yourself into believing you are progressive in anything but aspiration. Nevertheless, your warning of the present danger is pertinent: Rush Limbaugh is winning.

I happen to be what you might call a Lugar Republican. I’m a hard-wired Republican, but I’m not fascist. I went to Vietnam believing in whatever you might hear in “Blowing in the wind” and I haven’t found any reason to change my mind. I went to Vietnam so I could vote for Barack Obama someday and, when the opportunity arose, I voted for him. I’ve been listening to this fucking cat fight between liberal fascists, like yourself, and conservative fascists, like Laura Ingraham, (to pick a name) since I started college in 1965 and I fucking tired of it. I got a masters in Organization Development from the AU/NTL program and the entire OD community, with all their cognitive conceits and moral self-righteousness, are just like you: you are part of the problem and until you come to grok that in fullness, things are just going to proceed exactly on the track predicted by Paxton.

I also read your essay “5 ways to build a Fascism-Proof America” and I happen to agree with much of it. I heard Bill Ayers on C-Span in the weeks just after Obama’s inauguration and I happen to agree with much of his agenda: I have far more in common with him then I do, say, Dick Cheney or Rush Limbaugh, even though all of them are draft dodgers. I don’t happen to buy any of Ayers rationalizations and justifications for the boutique terrorism of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s, but at least he put it on the line. I was anti-war before I went to Vietnam: I’m just a bit more pro-active and forward leaning in my anti-war thinking, in a Peace through superior fire-power kind of way.

But back to building a fascist proof America. I have provided Michael Bellamente of the National Association for Development Organizations (NADO) a protocol for large system change that is designed to neutralize the social polarization currently inflicting the American body politic. I call it The Points of Light Program, but if that bothers you, I originally called it “Peaceful Structures: the game of grass roots capitalism”. It guides the community to employ itself as a capitalist tool and, as a national program, will recreate the mobilization which occurred after Pearl Harbor.

I am seeking 30 people who want to build a fascist proof America like yourself and are willing to serve as a steering committee of a pilot program to demonstrate this to Congress. If you are interested in forming such a group, contact Mike and send him $10 for a Nine Day Calendar, which is a cognitive device for manipulating time and thinking outside the box. Then contact me. In 1980, I promised Ted Kennedy that, if he would back the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, I would develop a mechanism to underwrite his vision for universal community health care. The Points of Light Program is that mechanism.

Talk is cheap. The Points of Light Program can do for healthcare what MoveOn.org and Howard Dean did for Obama’s presidential campaign. But it requires leadership. I’ve been on a Reagan White House black list for being a Vietnam “loser” and I’ve been called a terrorist by an Army general for promoting this thing for the last 30 years, so I’m not impressed by impassioned blogs and fervent pleas for harmony. I’ve literally gone bankrupt trying to do what you propose in “5 ways to build a Fascism-Proof America” and I’ll keep doing until I find someone with enough balls to back up their mouth with action. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

And that’s the truth.
APPLESEED ENTERPRISES
Tom Wilson

(additional commentary by ThomasW540 is available at alt.politics.bush, if some fascist at Google hasn’t removed it from the alt.politics.bush archives, like they have 8 years of my commentary already)

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