Fascism, American style, means imploding corporatism and militarism. It is the fervent support of exceptionalism based on the subversion of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is a bipartisan project, enabled by corporate media, to completely sabotage the American experiment.
The three branches of government have been subverted by corporate greed, military hubris and Orwellian religious nationalism, all of which comes into its sharpest focus in a foreign policy that promotes empire, endless war and the denial of global warming as its most important agenda.
America has no greater enemy than it its own fascist exceptionalism which is defended vigorously by the Presidency, Congress, the Supreme Court and Big Media.
Osama Bin Laden’s lasting victory has been to enshrine Islamophobia, on the one hand, and the pledge of eternal support for Zionism, on the other hand, as daggers in the heart of American democracy and world peace. American foreign policy has gone completely berserk in the raging against enemies largely contrived by its own actions, and in the support of murderous settler colonialism.
And this includes not just the War Machine, but the domestic Spy Machine. The collective defense and surveillance budget, including health care costs for veterans and separately budgeted projects such as the revival of the nuclear arms race is way, way more than a trillion dollars per annum. Most of this money goes directly into corporate pockets and investors’ bank accounts, i.e. into the pockets of the 1%, who rule America.
American fascism is the implosion of neoliberalism on the basis of trauma and fear, and has secured its death grip on American democracy by redefining freedom of speech and the separation of church and state as the right of corporatists to buy elections and the right of demagoguery to define anti Zionism as anti-Semitism and thereby indemnify Israel for institutionalized Apartheid and war crimes.
How did America ever come to buy this fascist swill?
America is itself a settler colonial project based on genocide and slavery, and we obviously have not had enough of rage, cruelty and violence. And so we have continued to rationalize that craven history in perpetuating racism and economic slavery on much of the world.
But we are so clever: we call it the War on Terror.
