Sunday, January 17, 2016

Performances Connote Political Personality Cults

Recently social media has been abuzz about a musical performance at a Donald Trump campaign rally , which featured an all girl electronic pop group singing his praises https://www.facebook.com/FOX10Phoenix/videos/958069764241571/?pnref=story . It has been compared to such spectacles as the Nazi rally in Nuremburg , as dramatized in this scene from the film "The Book Thief" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WgvHfFMNS1M. In all fairness though , lest we forget , yours prior there was controversy when some childrten's choir , not to my knowledge even connected to the Obama for America campaign , sang a song acclaiming Barack Obama as being a great hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtGrp5MbzAI . I think that this display in support of Pres. Obama was even more so quasi-fascist  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wOtGr1JFCnE. I call out equally both sides of the aisle whenever I detect any creeping fascism . Even when the notion of freedom is invoked. After all , the National Socialist German Workers Party was for a time called the Freedom Movement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/.../National_Socialist_Freedom.... And as Sinclair Lewis asserted , http://quotespictures.com/.../when-fascism-comes-to.... So there , now perhaps I've simultaneously offended both Republicans and Democrats alike. But aside from a few factions of the two respective major political parties , such as for example the libertarian leaning Democratic Freedom Caucus , and the Republican Liberty Caucus , it seems to me that increasingly the one is turning into the Republican Fascist Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Fascist_Party , and the other the Democratic Fascist Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Fascist_Party .  I feel that liberal fascism of the left , as well as conservative fascism of the right are both undesirable , and are characteristic of two sides of the same third position  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Position. I believe that if you feel inclined to vote , it is usually best to vote for minor party candidates , such as those of the Green Party , on the left , and for those of my American readership whom are right-libertarians , the Libertarian Party. Both of these opposition parties I feel espouse genuine liberalism. The former social liberalism /left-libertarianism , and the latter classical liberalism / right-libertarianism. 

Monday, January 4, 2016

InsurgentsTake Hold of Federal Wildlife Refuge in Oregon

https://www.rt.com/…/327762-armed-bundy-militia-oregon-ran…/ ,http://abcnews.go.com/…/peaceful-protest-oregon-wildlife-re…. I have multiple feelings on this. The obvious point to make is that this goes to show the insurrectionary nature of the hard right in contrast to the dissident left. It seems as if ever since the failed armed resistance of the likes of the Weather Underground , the far left has overwhelmingly come to reject invoking the right of revolution , as we've largely deemed it to be ineffective , if not unethical , especially under current circumstances . Instead we tend to favor such non-violent tactics as set forth by Gene Sharpe http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12522848 ,http://www.aeinstein.org/…/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/. With all that being said though , my send response to this is what took so long ? Our nation has suffered under the tyrannical usurpation of secret police power since at least the George W. Bush administration , in regards to both the enaction of the P.A.T.R.I.O.T Acthttps://www.eff.org/issues/patriot-act , and the National Defense Authorization Act https://www.stopndaa.org/aboutndaa/.Plus these pieces of legislation do not merely pose a threat to civil liberty under due process of law , some dissidents have actually been targeted by the federal authorities since then . Namely these left-libertarians /anarchistshttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ctdn9xVXSo8. So where were the militias when these anti-government activists in Oregon were being repressed by the Federals ? This is of course a rhetorical question. I imagine that in the event that a Republican is elected to replace Pres. Obama , this Oath Keepers movement will fade away , just as the constitutional militia movement before it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Keepers ,https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Constitutional_militia_movement. The militia movement in the U.S.A. has an obvious ideological bias that is strictly opposed to the perceived excesses of political power coming from the left , and is willfully oblivious , at the least , if not supportive of authoritarianism of the right. This has been my impression , based upon my own personal observations as a libertarian socialist from a Christian right familial background , whom remembers the concerns that militant conservatives of the Patriot movement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_movement had about then President Bill Clinton . These same supposed opponents to the Federal government did not however seem to be as hostile if at all to the actions of George W. Bush's presidential administration . As a final note , I am aware of an ongoing movement for regional autonomy and freedom in the Pacific Northwest , called Cascadia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Cascadia_(independence_movemen…. And perhaps another civil war might not be inconceivable . However the primary problem I feel that such a revolutionary war would have is that the rebels would be trying to largely recreate the Civil War , and /or the American War of Independence , while the U.S. military machinery would be fighting using technology and tactics out of Star Wars. I seriously feel like I am living in some sort of science fiction dystopia . It's just so unreal , yet happening just the same.