It HAS happened here

[Becky Lindroos]

Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> The idea that the primary attributes of fascism cannot exist without the anti-semitism and other behaviors of the 3rd Reich is wrong. I have listened for  

Oh yes -  "It Can’t Happen Here” (so titled out of satire) was written (1934) at a time when FDR’s programs didn’t seem to be working and WWII was still 7 years away. 

In those days, there were a large number of people who wanted to nationalize the big industries (socialist)  but who were also often virulently racist and anti-Semitic.   At the same time many of them wanted to stay out of Europe’s issues. 

Mussolini was definitely in power, but Hitler started his detention camps for Communists in 1933 expanded them to “undesirables” in 1934 and to death camps after 1939 when Germany, now under Hitler as "the Fuhrer,” invaded Poland.    

 It was very different for many reasons including all those things you listed.  

Becky
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com

> On Oct 27, 2018, at 8:43 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> 
> Partial Record of Post WW2 US fascism( militarized, corporatized enslavement, murder and intimidation facilitated by racism, police stae violence etc.):
> 
> Continual growth of military budget
> Loss of privacy
> Vietnam
> Congo and much of Africa
> Chile
> Argentina
> Columbia
> Cointelpro
> Iran
> Palestine
> Greece
> El Salvador
> Nicaragua
> Honduras
> Iraq
> HUAC
> Murder of Black leaders in US and well documented racism of law enforcement and courts
> Purging black voters
> Afghanistan
> Egypt
> Use of Drones
> Pervasive pay inequity and sexual abuse of women ongoing in Universities, Military, Media, Entertainment and workplace, 
> War on Drugs( while CIA engages in heroin traffic, and US companies sell “opioids")
> 
> Millions have been maimed, killed, poisoned, and tortured with the support of both political parties in a game of who is the toughest and smartest
> imperialist, who the most anti- communist  or anti-terrorist.  When they are caught in criminality it is soon forgiven and forgotten. 
> 
> The idea that the primary attributes of fascism cannot exist without the anti-semitism and other behaviors of the 3rd Reich is wrong. I have listened for  
> 
> 50 years of adult life while the bar for US fascism keeps moving farther to the right. If your comfortable lifestyle and sense of identity is dependent on justifying mass killing, you will either go along or quietly be removed from the public eye.
> 
> Yes we have a dissident press and freedom of speech, but millions are spent to keep them out of the majority media. This is much cheaper, more effective and less politically dangerous than jails or pogroms.
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