The True Believers

DemoFascism 2.0

Morning Comrades.

Good news first, I got the ok to take off my cast yesterday for a little bit which allows me to type this amongst other useful things arms are there for but I am still a little wonky thanks to the antibiotics I am taking - I know, I am easily knocked off balance by drugs of any kind as I am trying to keep this decaying temple of working class rage as clean as possible- and no, not in the California sober way, urgh.

Enough of that though.

Or rather, enough is enough.

I know I am repeating myself as I have written those words over and over again over the last 20 some years, increasing at a sickening rate over but having watched the final mask off moment in Washington D.C. did make me speechless for once. I blame my last internalised strains of bourgeois morality to even write this, considering “everything” and my internal conditioned materialist is chastizing myself already but Netanyahu’s speech in Congress and the response to it sent chills down my spine. Yes, so did everything else, but it is fair to admit it. No matter how much time spent analysing historical accounts of fascism, watching speeches from the time of my grandparents, reading and debating those events feel as if they prepared me for the train that is rilling unchecked towards what can only be described as the 4th Reich. Actually, to be clearer, it is not rolling towards said consolidation of power, the train has arrived and we are witnessing their victory parade, in shock at what we know comes next.

There is a wonderful piece of work called “The True Believer” by Erich Hoffer whose work has been at the forefront of my mind since then that we will be going through in a moment to get into the details of this shortly.

The total dismantlement of the thin chance of a democratic reality in the West has finally been laid to rest, and truth be told you can tell how happy our ruling classes are across the West that they no longer have to pretend. Yes, the focus for the time being is the US but for my fellow Euro’s, let’s be utterly clear here, we are no better here, and let’s be clear to remember, that, whatever the US ruling class does is nothing but a signifer for what our ruling classes can and will do at a later time. It is one big club and no, we are not part of it.

Before I get into the lesser of the two evils bullshit again, briefly, and seeing that it was brought to my intention that my rage at the Democratic Party makes it appear that I am then logically pro-Trump / republican party - I rejected and violently oppose all ruling classes. The democratic party is in charge and thus they get my attention, the same way that the republican party did when they were in charge. Additionally, with the republicans their maga fanatics, we know hat we are dealing with because they so. The democrats don’t and still, to this point, all they have to do, apparently, is meme their way into everyone’s remaining bourgeois sentiments to forgive and forget their horrendous crimes against humanity. In short for clarity’s sake: fuck them all.

What I find fascinating, only because it is clearly working, is how quick and effective the current US ruling party, now centered around Harris, has openly rejected all forms of democracy in the name of “fighting fascism” and are being rewarded by it. Harris was never elected, has not provided a platform of politics for her to be judged on, has raised over 200 million dollars in a few days and essentially has been chosen by internal party structures and more importantly their donors based on the fact that, and I am only guessing here, is more sellable in the ruling classes fascist consolidation of their power than Biden. It is genuinely the opposite of democracy as far as I can understand it and yet, through the clearest example of Gramscian Hegemonic Power Plays, a new ruler is anointed to protect the homeland from fascism at home and communism abroad.

We all know how eerily similar this sounds to Berlin in the 20s and 30s, right?

And sure, I could use Rome as a historical example also here, but, yeah. History classes in the West have never been that good.

Sure, if for one hot second I would “believe” that the facade of corporatism, a merry mix of Wall St and the Military-Industrial Complex, the very definition of Fascism, had a vested interest in “stopping” Fascism, aka Trump and co, I could almost forgive the suspension of democracy, but even then, no, we’ve been there, and it didn’t work. It never does. Furthermore, if one were to believe in the power of this bullshit example of democracy, reformism and so, the democrats, or whatever else we call them in Europe, had every chance to stop this fascism as early as the 1970s, by rejecting compromising with the neoliberal capitalists, the evangelists and so by simply providing a reality in which every citizen was provided with what every human needs, food, shelter and care- but no, of course not. Growth & Greed are their god and they play on the same time. So let’s not kid ourselves here. Their narrative is paper thin, or rather, it’s bullshit, just like Mussolini and Hitler’s was and again, too many peoples desire for egoistic privilege enables this Fascism.

With that, let’s get into a very influential piece of work that explains the above brilliantly and one that gives clear pointers about what to do.