Fascism Rising

It’s alarming to watch the fascists wage their relentless conquest for power. It’s like watching addicts doing anything that they can think of in order to fulfill their addiction.

There’s no rule that they won’t break, no truth they’ll not distort, no lie that they won’t repeat, no custom they’ll won’t defy, no institution they’ll not weaken, no person mor group that they will not harm in order to get what they want. Fascists are addicts. Power is their addiction, and they’ll stop at nothing to amass it and keep it under control.

One of the most chilling moments in the rising wave of American fascism came this past week during the State Of The Union address. It may have gone unnoticed by many. It didn’t sound like a radical change, but it has extraordinarily dangerous ramifications.

The President asked Congress to give Cabinet officials the power to dismiss federal employees based upon their faithfulness to the ruling party. Think about that for a moment. Think about how the government would look if a Republican president could oversee the firing of all federal employees who aren’t registered Republicans. If that doesn’t bother you, think about a Democratic administration making the same sort of mass purge. Imagine how pop-sided the power of government would be if every person in the military, the Pentagon, the intelligence community, law enforcement agencies such as the FBI, and all government agencies was forced to take an oath of allegiance, not to the Constitution of the United States of America, but to one person, a supreme leader. It could spell the end of Jeffersonian Democracy.

Fascism is rising in this country. To date, its lust for power has gone largely unchallenged. Republicans in Congress are so excited by the prospect of passing legislation that helps their billionaire benefactors, that they fail to recognize the constitutional peril that is staring them in the face. They don’t want to rock the boat. The prospect of weakening or ending Social Security is so attractive to them that they are willing to make a deal with the fascists, their propaganda-spouting apologist in the media, and with extreme right-wing voters in order to keep the dream alive. Because of their failure to provide oversight, the country has reached a point of crisis, and that crisis deepens with each passing week.