Liberal Vs. Conservative, a play on words to enslave
a nation, Part 3b
By Harry Felker
Jokers to the Left,
Clowns to the Right (continued)
In America the Right Wing movement is represented by
the Republican Party in it’s major political
theater, in opposition to the Left Wing Democrats,
which represents a set of values that is commonly
referred to as “Conservative”. The movement uses
subtle euphemisms to get their platform across to
the voters, one must ask, what are the ends to these
means and, more importantly, why are they using this
political tactic? As noted below, the Republican
Platform stands on a nationalist foundation, the
idea that we as people should line up behind the
government, lead by them, and unite for the national
cause. This ideology is focused on producing a
nationalist movement, cleverly disguised as
patriotism, to move towards the logical conclusion,
a fascist government. The subtlety, which is proper
to America, is very relevant to this end, and it is
required that we examine why. Fascism is an
unpopular concept in the United States; there are
two main reasons why this could be, both quite
sufficient to warrant the subtlety; the human
atrocities attributed to fascism, and its role in
the propagation of the Second World War. The death
toll was a record high in the hands of fascism,
until after World War II, when the communist nations
began weighing in. In truth, Stalin’s Soviet
Administration exterminated more than 3 times the
amount of people fascism had in total. The only
reasonable answer as why fascism overshadows
communism in political negativity, and so the need
for subtlety, is in reality the propensity for war.
A fascist regime must rely on war, a constant enemy,
in order to maintain the nationalism in the
population allowing for its particular excesses.
Remember not that they are subtle, but rather why,
and this is because the ends to their means is a
totalitarian fascist regime, demanding obedience
through nationalist fervor.
What is the Right? In many nations the right
movement is embodied in the Nationalist (Fascist)
Party, in America we call the Right wing party the
Republican Party, just as with the Democrats and the
Left, one could assume there is a correlation in the
two. Let us compare Nationalism and Fascism, and see
how they weigh against the Republican Party
platform.
Merriam-Webster: Nationalism (1)
Main Entry: na·tion·al·ism
Pronunciation: \ˈnash-nə-ˌli-zəm, ˈna-shə-nə-ˌli-zəm\
Function: noun
Date: 1844
1: loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially: a
sense of national consciousness exalting one nation
above all others and placing primary emphasis on
promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to
those of other nations or supranational groups
2: a nationalist movement or government
Merriam-Webster: Fascism (2)
Main Entry: fas·cism
Pronunciation: \ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm also ˈfa-ˌsi-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle,
fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces
Date: 1921
1 often capitalized: a political philosophy,
movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that
exalts nation and often race above the individual
and that stands for a centralized autocratic
government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe
economic and social regimentation, and forcible
suppression of opposition
2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong
autocratic or dictatorial control <early instances
of army fascism and brutality — J. W. Aldridge>
The Republican Party Platform (3)
Nationalism and Fascism are truly the same concept;
Fascism is in reality a refining of the nationalist
movement, adding an autocratic government with
strict government regulation of all aspects of the
individual’s life. Many of the “successful” Fascist
movements (I say this to mean they came to full
power) have emphasized national identity (Italy) or
racial identity and purity (Germany), and exhibited
all the trappings of a Fascist society, down to the
oppression of dissent. Now how does this relate to
the Republican Party? Well, if you refer to the
primary site listed in Footnote (3) you will see the
first note in the platform is National Security,
national security is a very nationalist concept, it
is the safety of the nation above all others. Going
to the link for National Security (3a) we find a
plethora of Nationalist ideals fit for an American
Fascist regime:
“(Peace through strength) requires the unity of
Americans”
“All Americans should affirm that our first
obligation is the security of our country.”
“The fact that eighty percent of our critical
infrastructure is in private hands highlights the
need for public-private partnerships to safeguard
it”
“In our multiethnic nation, everyone – immigrants
and native-born alike – must embrace our core
values”
“In any war of ideas, our values will triumph.”
It is not too much of a stretch to see the
Republican standard is a Nationalist policy,
focusing on the superiority of our nation and the
need or the whole of the populace to fall in line.
Appearing in the same section: “In dealing with
present conflicts and future crises, our next
president must preserve all options. It would be
presumptuous to specify them in advance and
foolhardy to rule out any action deemed necessary
for our security.” We see that the Republican Party
is specifically, with the expansive power of the US
military machine, is standing on the platform of
giving the full powers of war to the executive
branch. The most underlying similarity between
Republican “Values” and Fascism is the annihilation
of the individual under the banner of Nationalism,
that the nation takes precedence over the
individual.
I think there is sufficient proof to claim a
definitive alignment with left and right wing
politics, between America and the rest of the world,
the only logical conclusion is that the radicals of
each here at home are looking for their personal
Ideals (Communism and Fascism, respectively) to be
implemented. The less radical politicians are more
often falling between the far left and far right
with no lateral movement towards Liberalism.
Public Good vs.
National Security
Now that we truly have a basis of understanding of
the left and the right, let us compare and contrast
the two, these policies should have differing
results, as they are diametric opposites of the
political scale. The left, or Communist, faction is
driven for the sole purpose of the “greater” or
“public” good, and the collective is morally
superior to the individual by virtue of the fact
that it is best for all. This is the collectivist
notion that the group is more important than the
individual, that rights are assigned by class or
other segregatory demographic such as, race,
heritage, gender, lifestyle, etc. Most of the
current incarnation of these ideas is rooted in
post-Marx writings about communism sources from the
Frankfurt Institute for Social Research (4), when
the worldwide proletariat revolution did not take
place. This is the basis for the current communist
movement in the United States; collective civil
rights, politically correct speech and egalitarian
social policies, all indicated as the foundation of
the Democratic Party platform.
The Right, or Fascist, faction is represented by the
Nationalist notion of National Security, that our
nation is under constant threat from foreign and
domestic enemies, and if you “love your country” you
will fall in line and do as you are told. We had
seen the greatest display of this during the last
few years when the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. U.S.A. Act was
being enforced, where members of our own society
decided that if you were a patriot you should be
silent about government intrusions. Where not
patriotic, but rather nationalist, fervor swept
across the land giving silent consent to the loss of
liberty, for the most part, because the individual
did not feel concerned as Nationalist pride
encourages the individual to trust the government.
The current platform is no different, espousing
dissent as unpatriotic, not falling in line with
their values is agreeing with the “enemy” and all
that disagree are destroying America.
In unison, both parties will distinctly say that the
idea of their party platform cannot be realized in
America, the “It cannot happen here” mentality,
which communism/fascism is what everyone else is
doing, and the parties are actually for liberty.
This ties into the quote by Goethe, “None are more
hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe
they are free.” Both political ideologies are
against the individual, as are the party ideals,
there can be no individual in collectivism or
nationalism, so each has the feature of the
annihilation of the individual. They both expect to
destroy the free thought process for a group
mentality, either under the theory of the “greater
good” or “national security” which in turn will melt
away the individual. The Group will be
all-important, rights or better put in these ideals,
privileges are granted in relation to the size of
ones group or the majority will.
The end result in either case is tyranny, where the
elite direct the lives of the people in an Orwellian
fashion; in the perfect case it has an elegant
mixture of collectivism and nationalism to deceive
the people into a stupor. In the end the wings are a
means to a common goal, a Statist Oligarchy, where
the individual is annihilated and the people as a
group live and die at the will of the government.
1. Nationalism. (2009). In Merriam-Webster Online
Dictionary.
Retrieved April 3, 2009, from
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nationalism
2. Fascism. (2009). In Merriam-Webster Online
Dictionary.
Retrieved April 3, 2009, from
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
3. Republican Party Platform
http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/
3a.
http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/NationalSecurity.htm#
4. Frankfurt Institute website - History Page
http://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/english/history.htm
