tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post2044232493584880693..comments2024-02-10T00:29:04.297-08:00Comments on Faith's Window: You can't just say it, you have to prove it.Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-59207723470325818832016-11-15T06:03:39.190-08:002016-11-15T06:03:39.190-08:00Hi Connie, no, did I say anything about Trump? I ...Hi Connie, no, did I say anything about Trump? I was not referring to you or any particular person. My point was tangential to the topic of your post. I've enjoyed the accuracy of your writing for quite some time. Just wanted to correct a factual error. <br /><br />Fascism is a real ideology. One of the core ideas is the denial of absolute morality. This is transcendent truth which applies to all people in all places at all times. Instead, morality is determined by the will of those who lead and is based in a particular culture and moment. Individual rights don't really exist because the individual doesn't really exist apart from the tribe or small group. These in turn are rolled up into larger units and eventually the nation-state under the masterful leader who embodies the strength, vision and power of the whole.<br /><br />How to get everyone subsumed into the whole?<br /><br />Fascists have always accomplished this through the use of technology - media. This molding of the thinking and beliefs of the people was first done in crude but sophisticated ways by Goebbels and Bernays. What goes on today is orders of magnitude more sophisticated. The Marxists learned from the Fascists. But the Fascists have never gone away. <br /><br />Fascism is by definition a revolutionary movement, just as is Socialism. It cannot be conservative. Yet, because totalitarian movements have learned that people are more easily changed through the powers of image and emotional experience than by reason, you can easily find Americans who believe fascist ideology and still consider themselves conservatives. Some of the modern fascists sell themselves as conservatives. And people believe it, because they increasingly don't care to be consistent. They only want to belong.<br /><br /><br />Alechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00825239050486476125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-19225416068015805262016-11-15T05:55:00.462-08:002016-11-15T05:55:00.462-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Alechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00825239050486476125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-54168450044133372922016-11-14T10:13:37.794-08:002016-11-14T10:13:37.794-08:00OK, Alec, but please expand. Are you calling Trum...OK, Alec, but please expand. Are you calling Trump a fascist? That term is such a piece of political correctness I don't know if anybody really knows what it means any more. Explain?<br /><br />In any case somebody is inventing some claims of violence. The reports I've seen show the anti-Trump people doing it, actual video evidence, and on the other side is just rumors. Faith https://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-34651205612011274192016-11-14T06:16:47.283-08:002016-11-14T06:16:47.283-08:00Hi Faith,
"Propaganda is a known tool of Mar...Hi Faith,<br /><br />"Propaganda is a known tool of Marxists and Communists." Yes, this is true but it's not complete. Fascists are the masters of propaganda, too.Alechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00825239050486476125noreply@blogger.com