September 13, 2020

Fascism is the socialization of corruption. Fascists do not allow anything to stand in the way of corruption including government and laws.

The social order is being taken over by fascism, as incompetent power mongers push their way into the social structures and convert them into power structures. Power structures are nonfunctional, as the purpose shifts to personal gain at everyone else's expense. Draining The Economy Dry

The most extreme form of fascism is Nazism. Nazism self-destructs due to incompetent corrupters being incapable of functioning constructively.
 

Defining Fascism: Since Nazism is the most extreme form of socialized corruption, fascism needs to be defined as the next step down from Nazism. Nazism is the abandonment of all social structures and government being replaced by the whim of a ruler collaborating with like-minded persons who consider themselves to be innately superior to everyone else. The Nazis burned down the Reichstag, because they didn't want government to exist as an impediment to their arbitrary whims. Trump defies every law that applies to him, because he doesn't want government to be an impediment to his arbitrary whims. The result is always the purpose. Trump and followers are trying to burn down the government and social structures, while they consider themselves to be superior to everyone else. Article On Destroying Education

 
The Aryan race, relativity and the big lie of a stolen election are conspiracies for replacing rationality with the whim and ignorance of corrupters.

Fascism is

a product of incompetent corrupters being intolerant of government laws and other impositions placing demands upon them,

a socially developed form of corruption in contrast to simple dictatorships which can be managed by single persons,

using the power of numbers to overwhelm rationality,

using power as the test of truth, knowledge and justice,

alignment upon motives in contempt for realities

and the most complete result of mongering power, where power is highly developed and available.

The result is a transitional state which rapidly disintegrates due to incompetence and absence of constructivity with whim replacing the social structures and laws which normally create ordered existence.

The primary source of power for corrupters is conspiracy, which creates power through numbers. Corrupters assume their conspiracy is the only valid state of existence; and they assume invalid existence is alignment upon realities instead of their group of persons.

Corrupters align upon motives in contempt for realities. Motives represent themselves, while realities represent abstractions related to laws of the universe.

Fascism is not a dispute or alternative political process. It's a destruction of social standards, so no problems can be solved. Lying is an example. It's not a dispute, it's a destruction of communication standards which require explanations of claims.

Fascism in the U.S. began with Reaganism. Reagan said government is the problem. That's fascism. It's not allowing ordered existence to get in the way of the whims of incompetent corrupters.

Trump is what Reagan was aiming for. It took forty years to get there.

The task of the Reaganites was to get rid of "eighty years of liberalism gone awry." It took forty years to do that. The result put Trump in power. It wasn't that trump created the fascism; he was too stupid to influence government. He simply allowed conservatives to do as they please; and fascism was the result.

The purpose of Reaganites was to officially change the purpose of the social order. They called it "a new normal." They now call the result "the Reagan revolution" due to their success. Reagan called it "morning in America," when he got elected a second time and assumed success in changing the nature of the social order.

One of the main tactics was to throw out critical laws as so-called deregulation. The banking laws which began eighty years earlier in attempts to protect society from "the robber barons" were thrown out allowing banks to buy into the stock market and opened the door for "derivatives" to be created as gambling instruments. Stock buy-backs were allowed creating an incentive to redirect corporation resources into the stock market and bolster the value of management pay which took the form of stock options.

Before 1981, corporations were paying 60% of government revenue; now they approximately pay none. It was 5%, before the Trump Administration produced two tax give-aways to corporations of about three trillion dollars. Yet the talk is about taxing "the rich" instead of taxing corporations. Some investors plead for taxing corporations to no avail.

The "new normal" was an ethic, not a governmental process. It was manifested as a war against the lower classes framed as combatting "communism." As always, the corruption was taught as examples, the primary example being murdering rice farmers in Nicaragua to get rid of nonexistent communism, even after Congress wrote a law attempting to put an end to it called "the Boland Amendment." Contempt for such laws was a part of Reaganism; and it characterizes the fascism under Trump.

Corrupters want a totally flat social order. That means nothing being imposed upon them, so they are free to do as they please which includes placing intolerable demands upon vulnerable persons.

Corrupters are always destroying what they want to promote while assuming enemies are preventing them from getting the result they want. In other words, fascists want the thriving economy that liberal progressives produce while assuming liberal progressives destroyed everything. They want the result labor unions produced while assuming labor unions are the ruination of man. They want the status of science while destroying the essence of science. They want a government that promotes white racism while destroying the government. Those purposes are stimulus-response reactions which always make horseshoe loops in conflict with realities.

When corrupt persons acquire social connections, they feel a sense of power in the numbers of persons agreeing with them. As they create a social force, a transformation occurs from ordered existence to chaotic existence. Those forces only come together when an incompetent ruler has the same values and brings out those purposes in society.

It's not a ruler or country that creates fascism; it's social decay caused by a standard of corruption that increases through interactions of like-minded corrupters prevailing over rationality.

Fascism exists when incompetent corrupters prevail in taking over social structures and government. It's an absence of the social complexities and structures that normally exist. Corrupters cannot handle complexities including laws, so they do everything on the basis of whim. Such a state is transitional, as it is not self-sustaining.

Fascism is the set of conditions Trump's followers created. They might not prevail after the next election, but if they do, there is no way to re-establish constitutional democracy in the U.S.

There was a thirty six year progression of dismantling the government that followed the conservative drive that Reagan initiated. Electing Trump was a small step at the end of that process.

When conservatives took over the world in 1981, they had an agenda which they were cultivating in the background. They intended to change the way things were being done. They called it "'the new normal." Reagan described the result as "morning in America." One of the purposes was said to be to get rid of 80 years of liberalism gone awry.

Conservatives viewed their agenda in terms of their opponents. Whatever liberals were doing is what needed to be changed. There was no grand scheme to the process. It was largely a counter-intention. They could not tolerate what liberals were doing.

Nothing could be more definitive than a counter-intention. No plan was needed. No one could fail to see the task at hand. There was no wrong way to go about it. Attack, attack and attack was the essence of the process.

To carry that process to an end point could not have resulted in anything other than fascism. Fascism is the absence of ordered existence. The only remaining influence is the whims of the deciders. For conservatives to have no other plan or purpose than attack opponents left them with no plan or purpose—the essence of fascism, that is, when completely achieved.

A long road followed the starting point in 1981. Dismantling 80 years of liberalism gone awry took decades of discarding essential laws for holding the social order together, such as the banking laws, that allowed derivatives and stock buy-backs and allowed banks to get involved in stock market activities. Deregulation removed government oversight as a principle.

One of the major consequences was reducing bureaucracies to nonfunctionality. It was not difficult to do. That result occurs to some extent apart from fascism due to the darkness which causes corruption to prevail. Conservatives enhance the decadence of bureaucracies by stripping rationality from government.

Isn't that exactly what Reagan said—that the government is the problem? Notice a few missing words that redesigned the world. He didn't say a particular type of government was the problem but that the government was the problem. His fix was to eradicate the relevance of government by eliminating its functionality. That result is fascism.

Corrupters believe in that result, because they are not capable of evaluating or adhering to laws. They assume no one else can either; and therefore laws are produced by fools who don't know what they are doing.

What wasn't so obvious at first but has overwhelmed society at this time is that you get autocratic, totalitarian dictatorships with fascism, not the freedom to party forever with no government getting in the way that conservatives promoted. Totalitarian dictators get in everyone's way.

Liberals can't fix the problem at this point, because the laws and social programs that they depend upon were thrown out. Jim crow laws are back to hijacking elections in addition to government regulations being abandoned.

Stated Purpose

The Republican convention in August allowed Trump's followers to describe their stated purpose. Speaker after speaker for four days had no other purpose than to worship the ruler. The omission of any other purpose related to government is the essence of fascism. Fascism is the absence of government based on laws.

Incompetent corrupters can't find or promote any purpose in government than worshipping the ruler. To find something more than that in government requires a relationship to reality that corrupters do not have.

The manner in which Trump's followers proceeded was to lie about everything Trump did in three and a half years claiming it was spotless perfection, while it was nothing but breakdown of the social order. Fictitious reality is how worship of the ruler works.

The task and purpose was aligned upon defeating the enemy which supposedly caused all of the problems. The enemy was any and all of Trump's opponents.

Many persons noted the contradictions in pretending that the flawless perfection of Trump was the answer to everything while supposed enemies were destroying society. If Trump was the perfect ruler for three and a half years, why didn't he solve the social problems? If he didn't solve the social problems in the first term, why was he going to solve them in the second term? Contradictions don't exist in the fake reality of incompetent corrupters while they fantasize their virtues into existence.

In other words, when corrupters acquire power, they destroy the social order, but they claim they are producing perfection, while enemies are destroying the social order. Then defeating the enemies is supposedly the answer to everything.

Having no relationship to reality, corrupters fantasize. The starting point for fantasizing is lying. So corrupters teach people to lie for the sake of lying. Only after lying becomes normalized can fantasizing be promoted. That's why Trump has been lying in such an endless manner. He needs to normalize lying as a prerequisite for fantasizing corruption as the answer to everything.

Fascism is the power of know-nothings. The most visible example is the QAnon phenomenon. It shows how knowing nothing about a subject gets channeled into social and political destructivity.

The January 6 insurrection was based upon QAnon assumptions. The persons involved didn't have a clue what they were doing. That's the problem know-nothings have.

Know-nothings get overwhelmed by what they don't know. They assume the overwhelm is someone else's corruption. Trying to use corruption to correct rationality is fascism. Fascism is obliterating the rationality that condemns know-nothings.

Fascists do not intend for their falsehoods to be truths; they intend for falsehoods to be weapons. So when critics evaluate the truthfulness of the falsehoods, they are under-estimating the seriousness of the fascism.

The falsehoods of fascists vary with the weather, because the ability to use falsehoods as a weapon is highly variable in society. Sometimes it works; and sometimes it doesn't. To a large extent, the efficacy of falsehoods is a measure of the degree of fascism that has developed in society.

The underlying forces of fascism always exist in the nature of corruption. Those forces can only take the form of fascism when social deterioration allows corruption to overwhelm rationality. Overwhelming rationality allows falsehoods to be used as weapons—not only weapons against opponents but weapons against rationality.

The most significant and basic element of corruption is an opposition to the rationality that exposes corrupters for what they are. Not only does rationality generate the truth about corruption, it places demands upon corrupters which they cannot meet. Getting out from under the exposure and demands of rationality is the perpetual quest of corrupters. Fascism is a degree of success in doing that.

Trump and his followers cannot accept being voted out of office, because it makes them losers. Their justification hinged upon being winners as the test of all that is right. They assumed they achieved the epitome of success which proved them right about everything and that they could do no wrong, because they got elected into power.

There was a forty year process in getting to the result. The assumption of Trumper-conservative-corrupters (the TCCs) was that there was a logical evolution to their triumph over opponents. They assumed inevitability.

The TCCs assumed they had achieved the only possible result—that there was a superior ethic that they were producing. They could see the progress, step by step, over the past forty years, since Reagan started the conservative drive in 1981.

Since progress had been continuous for forty years, there should have been no reversal of fortune. Yet there was. How could that be? Corruption is not the virtue that corrupters assume it is.

October 24, 2023

History is totally irrelevant to social evolution. That's because people respond to forces around them with no concept of history beyond their own experiences. In fact, commenters often complain about that fact, saying people who ignore history will repeat it's failures.

History might be informative, but only to students of abstract concepts, not to the behavior of the public. That means the attempts to interpret present social effects in terms of history are in error. Certainly, there will be some similarities with history, but only because similar forces still exist.

The forces that determine present social conditions are shaped by the interaction of personal characteristics and surrounding influences. That means rationality vs corruption respond to constantly changing influences.

Therefore, the reason why fascism is re-appearing and transforming into Nazism isn't because of history but because of corruption overwhelming the social order in a similar manner as occurred in history. The label "fascism" was created for Mussolini's Italy; so it is re-applied to a degree of social corruption, even though no history is influencing the result.

In other words, fascism and Nazism are degrees of social corruption, as they occur in a modern technological society. The corruption keeps re-appearing, and the original labels are appropriate, only because corruption is that way, not because the public studies history.

Here is a superficial summary of the progression of events: Coming out of WW-II, modernized everything shaped a redesign of everything throughout the 1950s and then became overwhelmed by corruption in a gradual manner through the 1960s and beyond. The center of the modernization was the U.S.

Liberalism took form with no relationship to anything that occurred up to 1949 beyond language, innate character of persons and rudimentary structures. Television created a new and astounding form of information. Even the print medium transformed into widespread social information. The universities expanded immensely to engulf the lower middle classes. All elements of construction replaced everything previous, while old blacksmith shops crumpled nearby with horseshoes still on the walls.

So the lower and middle class persons who came out of the depression of the thirties and WW-II solved a lot of problems. They were oriented around the need for social justice, which transformed into so-called liberalism.

At the same time, a different bunch of persons were taking form around the conservative cause as an alternative to the liberalism. They saw William Buckley on TV and said to themselves, here is a winner who imposes his superiority onto others, and he is from Yale. Maybe we can be winners by imposing ourselves instead of trying to convince or agreeing with those low class persons. Then Barry Goldwater contested Lyndon Johnson with that attitude oriented around the theme: Bomb Hanoi.

So the conservative cause took off with the attitude of imposing rather than convincing. The fact that Buckley was expressing elitism and bigotry was too abstract for conservatives to understand. They simply viewed the attitude as prevailing to be winners rather than pussy footing around with opponents.

The attitude of prevailing to be a winner is what Reagan picked up and expressed by saying, if you need to explain, you are already a loser. He assumed that being a winner is the purpose in life and rationality is for fools. Rationality requires explanation of claims.

Those forces resulted from the interaction between character and rapidly changing social environments. That means there is an absolute wall between 1949 and 1950, as the modern social order evolved. Nothing crossed that wall beyond rudimentary background properties. So it is inappropriate to extend historical analysis into the present social state, though history can serve as an abstract study.

Detailed Summary Article: Thom Hartmann, July 24, 2023