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. 

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