@@nairsheasterling9457 The implications are truly disturbing. I don’t believe that the average liberal population understands the enormity, and inevitability of the loss of freedom approaching. We’ve been complacent for too long.
Its worth mentioning that not only was Umberto Eco an historian, philosopher, and semiotician, he also grew up in Italy in the 1930s and 1940s. So when it comes to Fascism, he knew exactly what he was talking about.
Yup he was even in the Italian equivalent of hitler youth as well. Hiding his true power level, waiting to reveal he was _OVER 9000!!!_ *anti-fascist* lol
He also won a medal at the age of ten for a school paper that he wrote answering the question "should we die for the glory of Italy and Mussolini?"...I just think that's a funny little piece of info. I've always used his 14 to describe the MAGA movement. I grew up and live in rural VA around a lot of Trumpers, I've been trying to warn people I know for like 3 years now what MAGA really is and where it was headed.
@@GRJ-uz7kf wrong. Not only was the Klan opposed to foreign powers like Germany and Italy (yes even Fascist regimes of the time), but Trump's father was arrested in opposition to the Klan and in support of his Jewish friends and partners. So there's alot of nuance to all this.
When it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and ticks all fourteen boxes of two entirely different ways of how to indentify a duck, we're very likely dealing with fascists here.
"This isn’t incoherent. It reflects a clear principle: Only Trump and his allies, his supporters, and their anointed are entitled to the rights and protections of the law, and if necessary, immunity from it. The rest of us are entitled only to cruelty, by their whim. This is how the powerful have ever kept the powerless divided and in their place, and enriched themselves in the process." "It is not just that the perpetrators of this cruelty enjoy it; it is that they enjoy it with one another. Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump." "The president and his advisers have sought to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense; they have attempted to corrupt federal law-enforcement agencies to protect themselves and their cohorts, and they have exploited the nation’s darkest impulses in the pursuit of profit. But their ability to get away with this fraud is tied to cruelty." "Trump’s only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty. It is that cruelty, and the delight it brings them, that binds his most ardent supporters to him, in shared scorn for those they hate and fear: immigrants, blackVoters, feminists, and treasonous white men who empathize with any of those who would steal their birthright. The president’s ability to execute that cruelty through word and deed makes them euphoric. It makes them feel good, it makes them feel proud, it makes them feel happy, it makes them feel united. And as long as he makes them feel that way, they will let him get away with anything, no matter what it costs them." --Adam Serwer, The Atlantic December 2019 "All cruelty springs from weakness." --Seneca
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
I’m Hispanic. Let me tell you that I find it refreshing to hear you speak with so much sense and truth and the most humble heart. I appreciate you, friend. God bless you 🙏
@@ml1209 you’re one ignorant person. What makes you think all Hispanics are illegal immigrants? I work hard and pay taxes in this country, and no, I don’t take and never had needed to take government handouts. You sir, need Jesus.
@@ml1209 : That $450k is to pay for the lawsuits incurred by the tr*mp administration. It has nothing to do with Biden, other than covering for the Bunker Babys mistakes. Did you know that they were performing unwanted infertility operations on immigrants too? Not very comfortable subjects for you I imagine, but is that really what you support? Is that who you want to be? Someone who supports forced sterilization. Edit: And omg, it's not $450k per person. lols Even the politicians feeding you these lies and half truths are not stupid enough to claim that. It's $450k total, divided amongst them. Please learn to fact check. For your own good, as well as that of the world that is *our* home. Freedom is responsibility.
Years ago our chief of police mandated that all sworn members of the agency had to tour the Holocaust Museum in DC. I went and unfortunately missed the bigger picture because I was so mad that we were forced to go. Then after the tour we had a round table with a few of the staff members and a survivor. I was now throughly pissed off because they made it sound like we, current law enforcement, could be manipulated and fall into the same trap the police and military of that regime did. I’m losing my mind, refused to participate in the discussion, no way could that happen. Can’t happen here. We are more intelligent, there are laws, we just want to do what’s right and help our community. Wish I had not been so stubborn, so proud that day. 😢
No one blames you if you realize the mistake now. Dude I wasn't such a druggy in 2016 I would have voted for trump. Luckily I was so drugged out I didn't even know how to vote. (Would have been my first year). I was very brainwashed and have no idea why I thought the things I did. But yeah shits starting to look really bad here so be careful. Made me happy to read your post actually good thing to recognize
@@suebee4843 You would no doubt be surprised how large the minority of progressive minded people within the military and to a lesser extent even law enforcement. We are drowned out in part because we do not fit either what the conservatives want us to be, or what the liberals are looking for.
Actually look much further back to the Goldwater campaign in the sixties. Reagan was the culmination of nearly two decades of ground work to make it so. Most of it started as a back lash to the civil rights act and the voting rights act but not the passage but the proposals. A lot of the founding work has been going on since the constitution was signed as a reaction from those in the prior Aristocracy to stop the grand experiment of self governance that America represents. The top dogs did not want to give up their power and have fought us from the very beginnings. PS Clinton was the transition of the Democrats to join in the Reagan Revolution and unify the ideology on both sides of the aisle. The class war of the "new Aristocrats" against the workers. The real class war that they started and will never surrender on.
Woah there, we don't want to get all communist and stuff, lol. But seriously, yes, it's time to go back to that rate or something closer to it. The other thing I think makes sense is to raise the cap on social security taxes. Right now if you make over some ridiculously low amount per year, like 185,000, you pay no more social security tax. So anyone making 500,000 a year is only paying ss taxes on 185,000 of that money. I don't mean to suggest making 185,000 is peanuts, just that if you are making 300,000, there is no reason to pay ss on only 185,000 other than when the laws were written the 185 was astronomical and mostly everyone but the robber barons would pay on most of what they earned. So if we were to raise the tax rates to 70-90% as you suggest, we would have more than enough money to fund all sorts of things we really need in this country. Then if we raise the cap on social security, people will not have to worry about the fund going broke, which is something RWers are always screaming about, and their solution is to kick people off or privatize it, and that would be disastrous.
You mean the hellish gulag that was Eisenhower's USA ? It's really weird, because from what I can tell, that's what conservatives consider the Good Ol' Days. Strong military, record numbers of jobs, good economy - you would think they would want it.
Side note for Umberto Eco's list: something don't even have to meet all of the characteristics to be fascist. It's even common for a fascist regime to not quite hit all of them, yet "Trumpism" hits all of them, and hard.
Yep. Eco's list is not a definition, it's a list of common signs most fascist movements share. One thing that has changed since Eco wrote his list is the opposition to "modernism", which nowadays more often manifests as an opposition to "postmodernism", which often isn't even really postmodernism. In conjunction, these fascists will promote a defense of "modernism", by which they mean a historically distorted version of the Enlightenment (which gets presented primarily as a tradition in their cult of tradition). It's the fear of new ideas and of the changes in social relations those new ideas entail that is central to understanding this sign of fascism, not the opposition to "modernism" specifically.
@@PaulBijenhof And that's what the GOP were, until Michael Flynn, who is free and on the loose only because of the intervention of Bill Barr, opened up his big fat mouth and said there should only be one religion under God (his words not mine), meaning Evangelical Christianity.
I have read many times that Trump does not read, yet the one book he did read was Mein Kampf which was kept by his bedside. He took his playbook from Hitler his self. He loves his Dictators. Or Dick tators as I call them. His people are tools. Maybe if they knew they were following a fascist? Naw probably would not matter. So we have just got to stand up for what we know is right and not argue with them or enable them. The ignore and they will go away is not working. We have to be proactive without being hateful.
"...the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word “Fascism” and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty." - Sinclair Lewis 1935
“He was afraid that the world struggle today was not of Communism against Fascism, but of tolerance against the bigotry that was preached equally by Communism and Fascism. But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word “Fascism” and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty. For they were thieves not only of wages but of honor. To their purpose they could quote not only Scripture but Jefferson.”
@iKnow BetterThanU I took it to mean like dog eat dog freedom. You can't have winners if there are no losers, for some to achieve the American dream, others have to live the American nightmare type of sentiment.
@iKnow BetterThanU If you didn't know, we stole more than land from the Native Americans, we adapted their governing style, cultural ideals, the State and Federal separation of power, election "rituals", several states united in defense and commerce, etc etc etc. Freedom and Liberty may not have been an original concept at the time but the Native American style was actually a tried, tested and certified approach to governance, and it was practically heretical at the time. Don't take my word for it though, research the Iroquois Confederacy.
@@sparkysmalarkey That does not describe the Native American (or American Indian) cultures as a general rule. That too is a form of bigotry... and I despise the way "tribe" is misused and misinterpreted as something bad. I am a tribal person. True tribalism, as I've experienced it, is often a much stronger reason for NOT hating or fearing the other or doing harm to them. If you look into the eyes of the Other, you see yourself - you're looking in a mirror! (Think about that when you use "tribal" as a bad thing.)
I know it's not the point, but can we talk about how Beau does all of his videos in one take, without prompts or saying um over and over. It's refreshing to see intelligent professionalism.
Been noticing this for awhile and it is scary. As a Canadian I have been wondering since 2016 if I am a bit too close to a dangerous disaster waiting to happen.
scary? yeah, and there are many Canadian Trumpers up here and that scares me even more. Will we be the 51st state? Mexico? Cuba? Fascism always wants / needs more of everything
@@certs743 oh I wouldnt be so complacent, Monkey see monkey do. Trudeau is moving in that direction, not as aggressively, just a little at a time, better chance no one will notice until it's to late. He's conciderably smarter than trump, but then so is a turnip.
Pity then that he is suggesting that Mussolini's or Franco's parties were opposed to modernism - that is, if he means modernism in the vernacular sense of "futurism." (Don't get me started on toxic 20th Century futurism.) The appeal of those movements, as well as that of similar in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and elsewhere, was precisely in their blending of pseudo-modernist pseudoscience, futuristic aesthetics, and reactionary wishful thinking. Mussolini spoke of creating a whole new kind of citizen, the Italian Fascist, and promised a bold new Third Way, a new form of economic organisation (national syndicalism) that was an alternative to both Communism and the "corrupt" kind of capitalism - collaboration between the classes would be the solution. His new Italian Empire would rival those of Northern Europe and would complete the Risorgimento, the unification (reunification, he would claim) of Italy that began around 1870. This bewildering contradiction between reactionary traditionalism, and hope, change and salvation in a "scientific" (big quotes) and modern imperial state, with a supposedly radical economic programme that did absolutely nothing to challenge the wealthy, was what drew so many supporters. Hope and familiar comfort in a time of crisis.
@@jimcrelm9478 : _"pseudo-modernist"_ And I agree with S Tahboub that Beau is referring to _modern_ as being less conservative and less authoritarian in general, and less bigoted specifically. The republicans claim to not be regressive too. Interestingly just like the fascists. But really fascism is essentially just bigotry weaponized. And the elite have been using bigotry to divide and conquer The People for many thousands of years.
Another 25% of the battle is understanding, and I think that's where we have our biggest breakdown. Every step is being celebrated by the followers of Hair Force One*. *from a contributor to Colbert's show.
@@dynamicworlds1 Beau's T-shirt pie chart: The Battle = 50% Knowledge, 25% Red Lasers, 25% Blue Lasers. He's worn it many times when he's laying out some important info. He's never commented on the lasers. 🙂
I hear a lot of people saying they don’t know how to stop this, or that they despair of it getting better. No single person can stop a political movement, but there is a pro-democracy, pro-change counter-movement. Each time you do anything to support that movement, you’re making a difference. Each of us can contribute. Even single moms working 3 jobs while living in poverty can talk to family and coworkers. Most of us in better circumstances. A couple hours helping a voter rights group file papers away, or making sure there’s hot drinks for people going door to door in cold weather, or writing letters to papers or posts to socials - every bit is part of the effort, and it’s only by knowing we’re not alone and continuing to do our part that we all succeed.
@@LvtLoshi except your media and political and religious leaders have redefined everything that's not favorable to white supremacy as CRT and everything that's not favorable to cisgender-straight supremacy as the Trans/Gay Agenda. Worse, y'all have warped Christianity into a form of organised schizophrenia, a religious psychosis, and a political agenda.
@@edwardmiessner6502 bro I've never been in a church , I don't want my daughter or wife having to share changing room with a dick or for my child to be told they are somehow different to kids with different skin colours. If that's psychotic to you, then there really is no hope. And 'supremacy' is utter bs term, you mean normal, there is nothing wrong with normal being the most common and the most influential. Having a minority trait does not mean you should get special treatment.
"The enemy is too strong and too weak at the same time" - ABSOLUTELY!!! This is something I've noticed time after time with so many different conspiracy theories. You have to believe the group your bigotted against is weak and naturally inferior, but somehow also an imminent threat to your wellbeing.
I would think it's less that that actual group is the threat and more that such a group has people (with within and allies of) being used as useful idiots by people with power. Punch down on those who you say (rightly or wrongly) are punching down on X.
I laugh whenever I hear that referenced because I've noticed it being done with Biden from the jump. He's apparently both completely ineffectual with no idea what's going on at any given moment and at the same time the mastermind of a potentially global plot to [ insert whatever those idiots are babbling about this week]. They don't even hear the words coming out of their own mouths.
Did she really? I found her a fascinating figure (for better or worse, I used to pay closer attention to women who obtained substantial institutional or governmental power). I had no idea that she'd written such a book. Thanks for putting this out there.
A lot of people don’t know what fascism is, US education being what it is. Everyone knows it’s bad but few seem to be able to diagnose it in their own movement. See Benjamin Lee for a deflecting example
This is a brilliant follow-up to the initial 14 Characteristics video, of which changed my entire scope on politics in America and fascism as a whole. I’m forever grateful for it.
@@jscotthatcher380 I am sorry for your losses, I have lost family this year as well and my health isn't all that but I must offer that my attitude is more in line with Job's... Job 13:15 (KJV) *_Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him..._*
When Reagan became President, there were a few Libertarians who left that party and joined the GOP. They've spent a lot of time and money turning the GOP into a version of that Libertarian Party. The goals of both groups are the same. By 2010 they'd taken over the GOP and began converting it into today's monster. It took Hitler only 3 years to kill the German democracy. Given all the groundwork being done already, it will take them even less time to kill American democracy.
The ‘let’s go Brandon’ meme is now also used everywhere as internet graffiti. Everything that doesn’t fit their narrative is littered with it: none of the people posting it even try to make an argument, it’s not even used contextually. It’s difficult to deal with, because, how do you engage with someone like that? There’s just no semblance of discussion possible with these people… you can’t even agree to disagree, because there’s nothing there.
Just ignore them. They are usually just dumb kids, not even old enough to vote, and if they are older than 16, they ought to be embarrassed of their inability to form a coherent original thought. Their whole point is to be annoying, nothing more.
Just do what I do and tell them that they can just say Fuck Joe Biden like a normal person. Of course, technically it's more effective to say Fuck Joe Biden's corporate overlords, but that's not as catchy.
@@michaellyczak9337 yeah, you are right. They deserve to be ignored. I can be worth debating someone using facts, I had some good discussions about abortion for one, but this is just willfully being proud to be ignorant.
@@Bagahnoodles :) that goes over their heads too… it’s sometimes extremely funny to hear republican right wingers mentioning corporate corruption and socialism in the same thought.
Using Ole' Saul Alinsky's Rule 5 on his fellow travelers seems to be working just fine “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions."
@@briannichols3412 in the mean time the right cancels and opts for burning popular history books, want to cancel gay and LGBTQ people, abortion, activist for equal rights and everything that’s not conservative Christian. And brands their own nationalism over the big-tent that includes all creeds philosophies that the USA was founded on. The left tries to cancel outright right wing racist behavior and policies, and the right is crying for it not being accepted being bigoted. Fundamentally the right are the original cancel culture, with Ted Cruz now wanting to ban Big Bird in Sesame Street. Banning/canceling and burning books was the ultimate powerplay the Nazi’s employed, but that analogy seems to elude you.
My old professor of politics and economics in high school told us that the most likely state to slip into fascism because of the way political parties are funded and the electoral system in use is the USA. We all died laughing. That was in 1991 in the European country (you in the US don't have subjects in high school that deal with the big issues of the planet). I bet he's been laughing at us from the grave for years now. Unfortunately he died during our war for independence and did not see how right he was. Or maybe better not
Beau, Dammit! Too much truth. You are dangerous to ignore. Truly, this scares the crap out of me. Thankyoy though. Unfortunately, I fear that all the changes in voting laws, and people who control it, our votes may not count. But of course, we must all vote, and maybe record ourselves or something. 👍🥰🤎💖✌
Hi Laura! ^-^ Hope you're having a good day. And hang in there fellow human. Evolution works on it's own timescale, but it is hard at work, of that you can be sure.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 Thankyou, I hope you also are having a good day, and/or night. Do you mean they, (the fascist leaning illiteratti who think we're run by Illuminati lizard peope?), might 'evolve' out of the cult? Well, the loud ones, being antivaxxers might 'self select' themselves out, lol. The one I'm more worried about are the ones in power, especially as I'm in AZ. Which has passed laws and replaced some of the people who stayed honest in the last election with their cult members. Especially since the fraudit failed! Our community here in Beau's comment section, (our 'Beau peeps' as I once said, totally missing the pun!) like you, help a lot. Again, thankyou! 👍🥰🤎💖✌
@@laurajarrell6187 hi I'm saying a prayer for your state you e all gave some great scenery there from the canyons to Flagstaff to sedona..absolutely beautiful colors...heres hoping that you can hold the lines in the next election I'm praying for president biden to do away with the filibuster law we have to get our voting laws back on track and I dont think it's a achievable by having a filabuster if the Republicans arent adhering to standard norms now what the heck wont they do in the next election
@@williamstefens You are so very right! Even though I don't trust them, I sure as heck won't just hand it over to them! My vote if how I can fight them! And talking to people. But I'm worried because the dems are moving too slow. I know there was a LOT to fix, but securing our voting rights is the only chance of continuing to fix things! 🥰🤎✌
Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum" and "The Name of the Rose," & other books can illuminate this whole discussion. I didn't realize he was also a teacher.
Beau of the fifth column is definitely my favorite you tuber. By far. So smart. It's crazy hes doing this in his garage for us. Thank you I appreciate your hard work.
When we Floridians call Desantis a fascist, that's not just a generalized slur. We know the word's meaning and pedigree. We dislike ex-governor Rick Scott and little Marco Rubio, but we don't automatically call them fascists.
There's less than a handful of characteristics the response to the pandemic _doesn't_ check off. You're right but that's only about 10% of even that part of the picture. But yeah, vaccines don't really fit with their contempt for the weak (or the common extention of that: their eugenicist stances). That's why Hitler _rolled back_ vaccine mandates.
@@grmpEqweer I'm personally in a low-risk group, but there are people I care about who aren't (from elderly, to immunocompromised, to working on a Covid floor of a hospital), so it's pretty personal to me too. (And that's before getting into risks of long term complications, the dangers of letting it mutate, and just personaly being completely sick of dealing with this BS just because some people are too busy throwing a bratty tantrum over getting a shot because their manchild daddy figgure got them reflexively hating everything that would actually work to fight Covid) I really wonder if those instances of people deliberately coughing on people telling them to wear a mask at the start of all this was treated as assault (which if spitting on someone qualifies, that sure af does) and was responded to with police involvement or a swift blow to the face as appropriate and they were made an example of in a way they understand...if that wouldn't have helped nip all this in the bud. We showed them through inaction that recklessly endangering others with a deadly pandemic was something we would tolerate, and they've taken that ball and ran with it.
Unfortunately the history we have been taught, and I am 77yrs old, has been such a whitewashed version we don't really know history. I have learned more of our history and get more actual news from PBS than school or most news sites. If people don't wake up soon we will no longer have a Republic in about 2-3 years.
@@karlaallen2971 Some of the best history I've learned has been from my great-granny, my grandfather, and my mum and stepdad. They've all been amateur historians with long memories, and very clear memories of what things were *really* like back in the "good old days". I've had a couple of excellent history profs as well, who got me in depth insight into non-local history, and sent me down my own historical rabbit holes, but learning about daily life across the entire 20th c. from the people who were there has taught me to always seek out journals, diaries, and other primary sources. And when it comes to Fascism, Eco was a primary source. He lived through it, and it made him a fierce anti-authoritarian for life. Particularly against that breed of authoritarianism.
28 characteristics to unstoppable chaos and one by one, the boxes are being ticked off by the champions of family values and law & order. Hopefully, countermeasures can be implemented before total chaos erupts.
"Action for Action's Sake": Oh man, that's Desantis. Kidnapping asylum-seekers in Texas, sending Florida national guard, cops, planes, and boats to the SW border, provoking Disney!
@@helenpatterson3858 bush w appropriated this quote of Jesus but only used the first half .. Matthew 12:30 “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. repeated at: Luke 11:23 “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
But the scary part is when it is in fact true. When they betray the founding principals of our nation to destroy the protections of the constitution what else can you call it but TREASON??? Honest disagreement has been a rare commodity for a very long time now. It is like what do you call an organized underground that seeks to control the judiciary and who gets to sit on the bench while at the same time who gets to be on the ballot for both sides of the ticket??? Is it a conspiracy rant if it is true??? Lock into the actions of the Federalist Society, Opus Dei, and The Family for the last sixty years and then answer me. I have been called a conspiracy nut job for most of my life, but I have also foretold nearly everything that is coming to pass to this day. Yet I am dismissed as unhinged. TRUTH IS TRUTH NO MATTER HOW YOU LABEL IT.
@@markpashia7067 so true what you have said! since most trump fans are evangelical, i like to argue from the book they say they believe in i live in maga country here, and summer before the election they were having in-your-face displays of devotion to trump parties and parades complete with all the trump paraphernalia, and over-the-top gloating on nextdoor i’m in Northern California & rural county (mutti is mom in german & my typing is terrible, i apologize) anyhow, for ammo to counter their religious rhetoric - these are my standard verses: >>> most trump supporters are evangelical and are being misled by their pastors that this is a Christian nation and always has been - but it’s not someone posted to me on Nextdoor that i sound as though i have been brainwashed by watching too much CNN and then accused me of not being able to think for myself my response: and you sound like a Fox news enthusiast.. or now, maybe OAN or Newsmax i ditched TV on Nov 6, 2006 during the episode of CSI Miami, High Octane and haven’t watched it since (so, this week it’s 15 years of “no TV - no propaganda”) there was a rather gruesome scene and i landed on the remote like a stone and turned it off and it hasn’t been back on since the scene depicted a gruesome accident that was happening to our troops and private contractors who were lied into the war by bush2 i was tired of the propaganda and fear mongering of the bush2 administration so the TV went off so there’s that and as for you - and YOUR programmed narrative - you sound like a virtue signaling Evangelical who believes what the prosperity preachers tell you, and who hasn’t bothered to read the Bible for yourself i can smack down those preachers in a just a few quotes from the Bible (additionally i will add that this is a secular nation with a godless constitution): 1 ) a Christian has the right to judge ONLY fellow Christians - it’s God’s job to judge everyone else: 1 Corinthians 5:12-13 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.” ••so if you are judging women on abortion rights or the gay community because this is a “Christian” nation - you are going against both the Bible AND the constitution, but your pastor wouldn’t tell you that, would he? > 2 ) if you are against wearing a mask and social distancing - they KNEW that was the right thing to do over 3,500 years ago: Leviticus 13:45-46 “Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of their face and cry out, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ As long as they have the disease they remain unclean. They must live alone; they must live outside the camp. > 3 ) if you think it’s OK to bow out of the Paris Agreement on climate change - the Bible says it’s not: Revelation 11:18 The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small - and for destroying those who destroy the earth.” > 4 ) if your pastor insists that you pay tithes because if you don’t - as John Hagee has stated, “if you are not tithing you’re stealing from God!” ..to that, i say give me God’s bank account number so i can deposit direct and the pertinent verse to counter Hagee: 2 Corinthians 9:7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. ••the tithe was to support the Jewish Priesthood and the Temple - and the Temple is no longer there > 5 ) the NATION that God blesses is a “collective” nation from all of mankind: Psalms 33:12-14 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance. From heaven the LORD looks down and sees all mankind; from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth- 6 ) Christian warfare: 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. > 7 ) to be sure your pastors are telling you the truth: Acts 17:11 Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. > 8 ) God is not partial to the US because the embassy was moved to Jerusalem: Acts 10:34-35 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. 9 ) i’ve read the Bible and figured much of this this out for myself (rather than be fed cherry-picked verses) so you can rest assured that i can INDEED think for myself: … and finally: Galatians 4:16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
"Read books, not bumper stickers" should be updated to "Read books, not tweets" or Read books, not memes" People need to be taught at an early enough age HOW to think, not WHAT to think.
At this stage, most educators would settle for, "read articles and other COMPLETE texts, not tweets, memes, whatever the singular form of Instagram is, et cetera." Getting ADULT learners to read entire essays (let alone physical texts like books) is like pulling teeth. We are in the midst of a major change which impacts cognition and attention spans. Too much reading on the internet (alone) is chipping away our abilities to focus and to think deeply, in measurable ways. What can we infer is happening to younger people, with less developed capacities for focus and contemplation?
The unfortunate truth is that he doesn't have to. These features are emergent properties of certain aspects of human psychology. Insecurity, inferiority, and the king of our darker impulses, tribalism. The conditions of many have made this a certainty.
Side note for Umberto Eco's list: something don't even have to meet all of the characteristics to be fascist. It's even common for a fascist regime to not quite hit all of them, yet "Trumpism" hits all of them, and hard. It's like they're playing connect 4 and made an x across the board.
This is a phase of capitalism. Capitalism enables an ever-growing accumulation of wealth, and thus an accumulation of political power. When the inequality has skyrocketed, many people become disenfranchised and angry (especially after an economic crisis). That's when the siren song of fascism becomes attractive to many. And the wealthy like facism, because it only talks about national pride, not about equal distribution of wealth. Fascism does not endanger their wealth. When the rich befriend the fascists, you'd better watch out.
Anxiety is a reasonable response to a threat. Too much anxiety is paralyzing though; the best treatment for anxiety is to take action against the threat. It doesn’t have to be a new life direction, but connecting with like-minded people, including here, and knowing what you do is a small but important part of the whole effort is both effective and comforting. A monthly letter to the local paper, going to a school board meeting and speaking in support of the beleaguered members, finding a way to use your skill to help a group that’s doing the work - any of these and so many more are practical help preventing an oncoming catastrophe. And you’ll find that there are lots of others who believe as you do, and will know you’re not working alone. Joanne, and anyone else feeling helpless, you’re not. Please reach out, eventually you’ll find a hand reaching back ✊
@@dalstein3708 it's not necessarily capitalism though. I have a friend who grew up in communist Poland, so we talk about what's been going on there. The latest government has taken a page out of Sharia Law, especially regarding women, and another from the old USSR - they're actually building a wall to stop citizens from emigrating (ie: escaping) to Belarus. Hungary looks to be going the same way as well. It's scary af.
Photo ops instead of leadership Blame others, for everything Too strong & yet unable Hero for nothing Be tough, be a Macho man Bumper sticker "information"
We have similar, though not as extreme, neo-fascist movements in Sweden. They're not as militaristic, because gun culture and hypermasculine culture of violence isn't as much a part of Sweden's history or cultural makeup. But most of the characteristics still match. In fact, it doesn't much matter which definition of fascism you use; a party currently claiming 20% of votes here, and which several other parties ally themselves with, matches them all pretty well. I usually say this: I'm not calling them fascist just because I don't like them. (Which is, of course, what they claim whenever they're called out.) Rather, I don't like them because they're fascists. They match the criteria, the definitions.
And I think that party would not have had as much support now, if the other parties (on both sides) had behaved differently earlier. I do not look forward to the next election. Too much bad ideology on both sides, and too many bad decisions...
Sweden does have strong gun culture though. It is literally one of the most heavily countries per cpaita. I think the core difference between the US and Sweden (and for that matter any other country that has civilian ownership of firearms) is that Swedens gun owners are actually responsible
@@dwi2921 I see it as the difference between having a gun culture and just… having guns. Guns and ownership of guns is not something most swedes consider part of their identity. There are absolutely gun hobbyists in sweden, but it's not like a national pasttime. We have no Open Carry nuts. No "gun shows". No second amendment. The people who own guns here own them primarily because they need them to do something else - usually hunting. The guns aren't "the thing" in themselves, if you understand me. That's what I mean by "no gun culture".
@@dwi2921 Well, the ones who owns gun here (legally), do it because they are hunters, or shoot guns as sport and are members of gun-shooting clubs. Ownership and storage of guns though are heavily regulated. As in they track not only that you have a gun, but the exact model, and specific gun. And then it is is up to the police to determine if you are eligble or not. For example: We had a guy that competed and was very successful (as in top tier in Sweden) in two types of pistols. He applied for a license for a third type of pistol, and got denied for that, as they thought he did not shoot that type enough to warrant that he would be allowed to own one.. We do not have open-carry (and no concealed carry either). Used to be also that members of the "homeguard" (voluntary reserve for the military) could have guns at home. That is no longer allowed as far as I know.
The too strong and too weak at the same time, rings very true here in England at the moment. It's also very true when it comes to the 'two minutes of hate and the victim-hood too.
Ah, the past... I'm old. I was there. It wasn't that great. I don't want to go back there. As a woman, I've already been the "minority" in the workplace hierarchy. And I actually like electricity - and the internet...
I tried to explain about the 14 characteristics to my brother and he said I was using a new leftist definition of fascism and that the left are the fascists. I wish I could get him to watch this and the first video about the 14 characteristics, but he won't watch because he just writes off anything information that doesn't fit his views. I suppose most people do that. And I wish I knew how to get through to them.
Look to his life and beliefs, how many of these boxes does he check? He might be too far down to reach. Or you need to try more innocuous stuff, the sort of thing where you need a local specialist in this so as to get help in real time.
Conservatism is providing a stability to the social framework, by being a reactionary force that tries to hold onto the status quo that seems to have worked so far. The older you get the more often you will encounter this phenomenon in your day to day life yourself.. like 'why did this change? didn't this work before? I was fine how it worked. Why change it? It worked better before! I don't like this new version of it.' I have had these kind of encounters first with my grandma.. then with my dad.. and these days I encounter myself from time to time experiencing this very same thing. You have to look at society as a meta organism, a social organism, just made up of individuals like a multicellular organism is made up of single cells. It does behave in 'similar' ways.. So in a sense it is a stability thing that helps to keep the framework working, resisting against too much change that might not work out as intended and destroy things in the process of being applied. It's a risk aversion strategy of sorts. There are costs (known and unknown) involved in (re)learning how things function. Adoption to new/changed processes. It costs time and effort, sometimes removes efficiency for some time or even forever that the former version had..
@@joansparky4439 : Conservatism is a movement to conserve the old ways, to keep the status quo. It is in intrinsically opposed to societal progress. Multiple studies have proven that the driving emotion of conservatism is fear. _“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”_ --Karl Augustus Menninger
@@willowarkan2263 : Many different things can be _conserved._ We can conserve old growth forests, or old forms of art and literature. In the case of political conservatives, that used to mean to _conserve_ politics as they are. It has since devolved into a regressive ideology: _make america great _*_again._*
Something I don’t understand, they say America is the greatest country in the world…..Then they say make America great “again”…..if America is the greatest country in the world why do they need to make it great “again”……?
Here you go Beau - 14 Characteristics of Fascism (Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco, 1995) 1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.” 2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” 4. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.” 5. Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.” 6. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups. 7. The obsession with a plot. “The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.” 8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” 9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.” 10. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.” 11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.” 12. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.” 13. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.” 14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.” List source: www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html About Italian Author Umberto Eco (Foucault’s Pendulum, The Name of the Rose): en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco (1995) www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf
I never commented before, but I appreciate your breakdown of the attributes of totalitarian rule. ( And in six minutes!) I've heard of Umberto Ecco, but have never read him. I'm sure if you haven't read or heard of him before, you would appreciate the historical analysis of professor Timothy Snyder, also.
Another good video. It seems like willful ignorance, I have family members who fall in that crowd and see their behavior as patriotic. . .and view our fellow family members service fighting the axis in WWII patriotic. The disconnect is baffling to me.
presenting this information to those who have already made the leap to maga, is still a daunting task. i dont know if its harder to just give up on family/friends that have accepted this "belief", or keep fighting for them. passing this info on to others on the fence may make the difference. its scary to think so many have turned to fascism without even knowing. or they do know and willingly want it.
They are being taught to want it. Evangelicals and Fundamental Christians are almost always Right Wing Authoritarian personalities. They want that boot on everyone's necks. They just have never really experienced it in the U.S. Add in the Church and Corporate funding of the GOP and a lot of the Democrats, and you can see where we are headed. Tucker Carlson going to Hungary and meeting with Orban, showing how great Authoritarianism is, without saying it. Come on. That should scare the crap out of real journalists.
A month before my uncle died, I finally got him to tell me his experiences in Nazi Germany. He helped liberate one of the smaller concentration camps. Other things like hand to hand combat with a 15 yr. old. He said he can still see the hatred in that boy's eyes. When he was done talking we were both crying and physically sick. Today I heard about a county school board in VA talking about burning books. I've been nauseous all day.
I've said it for years and I'll say it again...be careful what you wish for, there's a very real chance you will not like it when you get it. The ones that need to hear this won't. If we only knew how to fix it before it's too late.
what boggles my mind beyond belief is LGBTQ people who subscribe to fascism. what the fuck do they think is gonna happen to them as soon as fascists get in power? it's sad and horrifying.
Great work Beau! Just a word from across the pond to say Boris Johnson ticks all 14 boxes (he did most of them last week), and he ticks all 14 of your previous list. In case anybody thinks I am being hyperbolic, I lived through the Thatcher government (our last arse-hole PM) and the same test on her gave a 30% pass rate. The sad thing is nobody in Britain is aware, except the Scots.
The faster Scotland can get rid of England and Wales the better off at least half the island will be. The faster Wales can get rid of England not that it's trying to, the better off Wales will be. And if London could magically declare itself a city-state separate from the Midlands, then the majority of the people responsible for the present state of things would be stuck with no one else but themselves, and maybe the better part of what was once Britain could wall off the third world country that's throwing a temper tantrum because it's not an empire anymore. I feel so bad for y'all. You're stuck in the same boat we are in but I feel like your decisions in regards to the EU have left you with even less room to claw back towards the light. I really, truly do feel for the good folks of Britain. I'm sorry.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 Hi, AM! It's rainy here and unseasonably warm. Coastal New England has been having what I call PNW weather, lots of rain and few very hot days, plus a very long fall. It's almost thanksgiving, and many trees are still at least partially green, until last week they were still mostly green and only starting to turn yellow. No! Snow! Yet!!! I hope you are well, in a place less ravaged by the pandemic and that the weather where you are is good. And have a great weekend yourself.
The first 14 characteristics lined up perfectly with the trump administration and these 14 still line up perfectly with the current state of the GQP-Maga Right
@@dalstein3708 Imho the way to stop them is to analyze what the root cause is that allows their movement to get so much buy-in and then try to change/alleviate/eliminate this root cause. What is the common theme through history that gives raise to this? What state are societies in, what developments do they have run through to fall victim to this? Per my logic it's economic stress caused by something that Adam Smith described 250 years ago (he described one way of how this works for one aspect of society) and which is much older than that even, it goes like this: _"The interest of the dealers [referring to stock owners, manufacturers, and merchants.. anyone really], however, in any particular branch of trade or manufacture, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public; but to narrow the competition must always be against it, and can serve only to enable the dealers, by raising their profits above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit, an absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens."_ & _"The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it."_ Do you recognize what he describes? Imho he describes how monopolies/oligopolies are being created with the help of societal rules (which are being enforced by the monopoly force of a society - government). This is why I call the end goal of this development Monopolism - a societal system, where a few benefit at the cost of the rest. Monopolisms come in many different shapes and forms. But their common theme is clear. And for a big part of the society they cause economic stress, as a few benefit at the cost of the rest. An opportunistic rag-tag cabal of xenophobes, nutters, power hungry types, etc. then use this environment to establish themselves by telling the disenfranchised masses what is to blame (always simple solutions to very complex problems based on a tribal reflex of groups, some 'them' is at fault) and off she goes. This is how fascism comes to be. So again, to stop this you'd have to solve the issue of monopolism which is the reason for the widespread economic stress that enables fascisms and others like it. And to stop monopolism.. well, humanity is battling that thing for since we form societies. Major milestones in progress were religions (couple thousand years old), democracy (2500 years ago) and free markets (250 years ago). Still plenty of niches within our societal frameworks that create monopolism, which feeds fascism.. And the root cause of monopolism itself, the why individuals trying to achieve a better outcome for themselves at the cost of the rest? Simple - nature 'does it like that' for billions of years. It's natural. It works. It's these newfangled things called societies (at best a couple hundred thousand years old) that have a problem with this. And it's easy to see why - if ruthless individuals are successful to benefit at the cost of the rest - the rest will have nothing to go on as the most fittest are the most ruthless, which means they have no red lines they will not cross - this is the cause of the economic stress for the masses. Just like a cancerous cell in a multicellular organism will if successful in its quest to acquire ever more resources for it's own growth, ultimately kill the system its embedded in. So it's our individual nature that clashes with societies principles of sustainability of the whole that is the root problem. And the only counter to that I can make out is to never ever prohibit or undermine competition for any aspect of our societies, unless it runs counter to individual freedoms/existence, the habitats existence and the societies existence. But we do exactly that. Plenty of it. Which means we create many niches for the ruthless among us to exploit and cause economic stress for the rest which then gives raise to fascism.
I'm 75 female and marched in the 60's and I'm so ashamed that the young haven't started a movement against fascist Republicans where is the voice against violence
Where have you been? Did you see all of the protests last summer? Did you see the march for science 5 years ago? Did you see Occupy Wallstreet? Young people are constantly doing stuff, but its very effectively countered by the rightwing propaganda machine for those folks who think in slogans rather than complexity. The Republican party is very very entrenched at every level of government, especially state government.
Antifa = Anti-Fascist They have been protesting and subverting the authoritarian ooze that is influencing politics worldwide for years. Violence can be a part of their tool kit.
His name was George Wallace. he promoted industrial development, low taxes, and trade schools. Wallace opposed desegregation and supported the policies of "Jim Crow" during the Civil Rights Movement, declaring in his 1963 inaugural address that he stood for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever". He ran in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries, once again campaigning for segregation.
An appeal to the past: "ThInGs WeRe sO mUcH sImPlEr WhEn We WeRe kIDs!" No they weren't Karen... WE were simpler BECAUSE WE WERE KIDS. Boiling all of those points down, we arrive at one base motivator: Keep the fools afraid and angry. Fear AND ANGER are both the "Mind-Killers." (Thank you, Mr. Herbert.)
I've studied the rise of fascism in Germany for over a decade just to understand how, why, and because I'm German and I felt like I needed to understand it. I never imagined having to go through it and whenever I brought up comparisons I was told I was overreacting. We need to use democracy for as long as we still have it.
Well shit. Its been in print for 4 years. Why don't you 14 people that gave a thumbs up buy it? I want to quit my day job and become a full time researcher/writer.
@@ExkupidsMom I have been so paranoid about the trumpers I keep my online profile very minimal so I don't have Facebook, a blog, or anything but RU-vid. I do sell the book on ebay. I've been giving out free copies for years but logically I cannot afford to do that forever. Eventually people will have to buy the book if they want any further work in the series. It was intended to be a series of books which I have not had time to research and write. I had to shut my website down because I just couldn't get it off the ground.
Yes, I totally see what yoy are seeing there in the U.S. But I can see this happening all over the world. I can see this exact same thing going on in the U.K. with their Brexit situation, just as another example.
Also movements in France, and other Euro block nations. Our disgusting law breaker Bannon is over there assisting in the movements all the time. This is a global movement by the elites to undermine democracy everywhere. Anyone know the whereabouts of Roger Stone today???
The questions I ask conservatives who deny the party is moving toward fascism are: "Why were neo-Nazis in Germany celebrating and waving the American flag when Trump got elected? Why did Trump get endorsed by The American Nazi Party and the KKK? Why do fascist around the world love Trump?" #14 on the list is "Newspeak" an impoverished language which limits complex thought. Sad.
