POLICE BRUTALITY: “UC Berkeley Student March / 12.06.2014
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Category Archives: Fascism
PROGRESSIVE RADIO: “The Death of Critical Thinking in America” / Ring of Fire / Mike Papantonio
originally aired on 10.05.2014
PROGRESSIVE RADIO: “Democrats – Leave the South NOW!” / Ring of Fire / Mike Papantonio
originally aired on 09.22.2014
PROGRESSIVE RADIO: “The Police State of America” / Ring of Fire / Mike Papantonio
originally aired on 08.31.2014
NEOLIBERALISM: “Dumbing Down America For Political Gain” / Mike Papantonio
RACIST, MISOGYNISTIC, XENOPHOBIC BIGOTS: “The Tea Party IS the Ku Klux Klan of the 21st Century”
AUDIO DISCUSSION: “Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer (Editor of Truthdig) Discuss American Fascism”
The two celebrated journalists discuss the collapse of vital institutions and the rise of demagogues and charlatans in post-meltdown America.
h/t: Truthdig
CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTIONISM: “The Far-Right Christian Movement Driving the Debt Default” / Deborah Caldwell
If the U.S. breaches its debt ceiling this week, bringing with it the global financial panic economists predict, leaders of a little-known far-right movement called Christian Reconstructionism can claim partial responsibility. Their goal: to eradicate the U.S. government so that a theocratic Christian nation emerges to enforce biblical laws.
That’s right — laws out of the Book of Leviticus prohibiting adultery, homosexuality, and abortion, with penalties including death by stoning.
The key leader of this movement is Gary North, founder of the Institute for Christian Economics in Tyler, Texas. He’s a long-time associate of Ron Paul, intellectual godfather of the Tea Party movement — the very people responsible for Congressional deadlock over the government shutdown and debt ceiling debate.
CHRISTIAN THEOCRACY: “The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government” / Chris Hedges
There is a desire felt by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, to destroy the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment, radically diminish the role of government to create a theocratic state based on “biblical law,” and force a recalcitrant world to bend to the will of an imperial and “Christian” America. Its public face is on display in the House of Representatives. This ideology, which is the driving force behind the shutdown of the government, calls for the eradication of social “deviants,” beginning with gay men and lesbians, whose sexual orientation, those in the movement say, is a curse and an illness, contaminating the American family and the country. Once these “deviants” are removed, other “deviants,” including Muslims, liberals, feminists, intellectuals, left-wing activists, undocumented workers, poor African-Americans and those dismissed as “nominal Christians”—meaning Christians who do not embrace this peculiar interpretation of the Bible—will also be ruthlessly repressed. The “deviant” government bureaucrats, the “deviant” media, the “deviant” schools and the “deviant” churches, all agents of Satan, will be crushed or radically reformed. The rights of these “deviants” will be annulled. “Christian values” and “family values” will, in the new state, be propagated by all institutions. Education and social welfare will be handed over to the church. Facts and self-criticism will be replaced with relentless indoctrination.
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The cult of masculinity, as in all fascist movements, pervades the ideology of the Christian right. The movement uses religion to sanctify military and heroic “virtues,” glorify blind obedience and order over reason and conscience, and pander to the euphoria of collective emotions.
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All ideological, theological and political debates with the radical Christian right are useless. It cares nothing for rational thought and discussion.
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Fascist movements begin as champions of civic improvement, communal ideals, moral purity, strength, national greatness and family values.
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The rise of Christian fascism is aided by our complacency.
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