Facebook fans love themselves some Throw Back Thursdays and Way Back Fridays, I think a portion of this nation is also fond of Flashback Fascism! As Sophia Petrillo, the matriarch from ‘The Golden Girls’ used to say, “Picture this…”
…A narcissistic man cunning enough to work the democratic process, too stupid for facts but savvy enough to imply that fiction and fictitious facts prove a truth, steps into the limelight and mesmerizes crowds of people. He knows that EVERYBODY needs an enemy and he has his victims lined up and ready to scapegoat. He invents a problem, works on the fear factor, and proves that there is a definite difference between THEM and US. Afraid to be found out a fraud he immediately with the face and grace of a snake oil salesmen criticizes the state press. He knows that perhaps some of the press is part of THEM, and warns his lemmings that listening to THEM is dangerous to the sovereignty of the Homeland. He implies that some facts are just hyperbole or perhaps subjective. He reminds his followers that THEY understand a flimflam when it is happening to US, as he picks their pockets and then banishes their brain cells. This man is a marketing maven, a guy who understands the selfishness of others and who can pretend to care as he carelessly sets traps for anyone who might demand the truth…
…This self-serving man loves to scream fire as he of course exits the theater. He knows how dangerous stupid can be and tempts the angry with promises of if THEY ( of course the enemy) are gone HE can make life better. All he needs to do is prose poetic by saying “I know how to, trust me, I can hire the best, don’t be fooled by fringe on the left”, and it works because nothing feels better then empty promises. He must have his secrets and those who just need a bad guy to blame in their lives ask for nothing more. First you must find the fear, then you must harvest the hate, then you create the chaos all ingredients for a recipe of fire wielding townsfolk. Never get your hands dirty, no need for your fingerprints, but at the same time NEVER discourage those among your group who you insist are “just thinking for themselves’”…
…This above the law guy (after all the law is only in place to protect THEM), pretends that he cares about democracy, but incites enough babble and bias to have his followers become a gang of goons, and with all due respect to decency has them beat up any bastard who dares to decent. These gang colors change with the mood of the insecure, sometimes they wear brown shirts, sometimes suits from Macy’s made in China, sometimes tri-cornered hats and sometimes a white robe underneath their camouflage hunting jackets. There has to be safety in numbers so just to be sure, henchmen adorn his dais and just in case someone might carouse past the guards, enough open carry, assault weapon wearing Patriots of the Homeland at the doorway to pounce when necessary…
…Flashback Fascism how sweet. But then that Fascist stuff just happened in Germany and we all know THOSE people were not as bright as US Americans. This leader of the pack guy loves to shout out lots of Nazi misinformation, but he is wise enough to know that for some (sadly not all) Hitler is still some kind of bad guy. However copies of Mein Kampf are stashed away in his gold plated library just in case the lies, fabrications, accusations don’t work as well as planned. Flashback Fascism in America, and if you for one minute do not believe it, and lets say you happen to be of color, living in poverty, not an Evangelical Christian, a female who expects personal freedoms, a homosexual, a Jew or an atheist, you might as well dig a deeper ditch so the rest of your body is in the same sand trap as your head!
