DEFEAT FASCISM

 Been much talk lately about how such a frightening percentage of Americans accept buffoonery and debauchery from so many of our political leaders. I'm not too smart nor well educated but I have my thoughts. I think an appropriate analogy for the American psyche at present aligns with the old sci-fi films of the 1950s.

I think the evil is always there within us. It's tribal and genetic. Distrust and violence are embedded in our genes. Tendencies for warfare with strangers are natural.

We haven't subdued them through religion or philosophy. Rather, what we call morality is a result of social contracts, agreements, and barters. I won't kill you or steal from you if you won't kill or steal from me. Let our villages trade with each other, not raid each other. Let us see how peace and harmony works to our benefit. Let us develop a monetary system so we don't have to steal animals for survival. Let us talk, not fight. Peace results from rational thought.

So evil becomes subdued like the 1950s monsters, deep underground.

Then an explosion opens a path for evil to rise, a path to destruction. It isn't from a bomb, but from evil-minded politicians who use our distrust as a detonator. We become engulfed by the results of evil. We need a John Agar to develop a plan of survival that, "Just might work.

With apologies to Steven Pinker.

DEFEAT FASCISM: READ REBUKE RESIST

 It seems unlikely that we’ll have elections anymore, not like we used to. Events point that way, at least to me. Why? It’s something that a columnist said once. I think it was George Will and it occurred at the height of Newt Gingrich’s power. He was altering forever, and for the worse, the stature of political discourse in America. He was drunk on success as was the political party he managed. Known as part of a group of sycophants known as “Reagan’s Robots” he saw a country not governed by thought and compromise but by one-party rule with his party ruling forever.

Then the columnist said something prescient. He said a ruling party should always temper its actions based on the understanding that the opposition party might be in charge someday and use the same power and tactics.

In other words, what happens when your enemies enter your castle and seize your weapons?

I think this current bunch, at least some within it, is smart enough to know that. With that knowledge and the power they have built with help from controllers of information outlets posing as news sources, there is little indication that they will countenance competition. Why should they?

They have the police.

They are assuming control of the military.

They have both houses of Congress.

They have the United States Supreme Court.

They have the money.

They have a large base that has eliminated morality and ethics from its religious beliefs.

They have control over the flow of what is called information in this age.

They have blame-victims aplenty to instigate fear among the populace.

They have an embedded belief that there is never enough wealth or power.

Conclusion? Anything resembling a popular election must go. It should be easy in the great scheme of things.

Hitler proved that.