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Fascism Growing Fast in U.S.



Posted: Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Dhammabucha Rocksprings Meditation


The underbelly of the conservative movement in the U.S. is fascism. Plain and simple. The NRA, the Tea Party, Palin, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck (they‘re all white), and Republicans in general since Ronald  Reagan have been surreptitiously preaching fascism in clever rhetoric disguised as patriotism.

Certain themes will be repeated over and over by the fascists. One is big government. What gives away the fascist agenda in this seemingly innocent appeal to balance budgets is the emphasis on eliminating entitlements (the elderly, disadvantaged kids, sick people, minorities) yet not a whisper is heard about the over bloated military, Wall Street abuses, or any program that helps the wealthy. 

When we look back at fascist regimes in the past such as Nazi Germany, we can see the need of the fascist state for a costly, powerful military and the tendency of the fascist state to sacrifice all social programs for gun making. The military, wealth, and the police are the life blood of fascists, which protect the minority wealthy and their overbearing influence from the majority poor with no influence. The weak are then systematically dispatched because they are only an expensive drag on the fascist state, as Jews were in WW II.

Fascists will support laws such as those recently passed in Arizona where personal freedoms of the minority are violated in lieu of the majority white population. One of the first crack downs on Jews in Nazi Germany involved racial profiling.

Fascists will encourage military type organizations within society such as militias, and will fight for freedom to own automatic military type weapons. They will also wrap themselves around the flag in their nationalistic zeal and condemn anyone who questions their actions, calling them Marxists or socialists.  

Anyone who is of a different religion, or color, or political persuasion is not merely a rival, but an enemy in the eyes of the fascist. Fascists are  dangerous, sneaky, untruthful, violent people who will stop at nothing to eliminate the weak, the minority, the old, the sick, the intellectual that sees the danger in bibles (used as a weapon and justification of violent actions) and guns (clannishness, mob rule, control and power through force), and anyone different from what they are.

Some signs of fascism are; a drum beat to eliminate all social programs and increase military spending. To criticize and demean minorities until they no longer have a voice in society. To demonize anyone who dares suggest an equalization of wealth which has gotten so out of balance that we would have to go back to 1929 to equal it. To break up the country into workable small, idealistic entities by espousing states rights and decrying the national government which is composed of the cosmopolitan ideals of the vast majority, and as such threatens the fascist agenda.  

These are the wealthy, white racist people who you hear screaming on cable news day and night. The party that has literally no minority representation in congress and very few women. Fascism is the reason. Why this fascist agenda hasn't been identified and challenged in the past is the question. We need to wake up fast to combat this disease that will eventually kill us all unless it is challenged immediately.  

Ronald Reagan put into place the seeds of a fascist take over. He lowered tax rates for the wealthy and increased military spending, literally breaking the budget, which he and Greenspan then used as an excuse to raid the Social Security fund which he knew would eventually go broke and therefore eliminate a social program which was getting in his way. His fascist tendencies initially revealed themselves when he ratted on fellow actors during the McCarthy hearings and the communistic witch hunt.

If you look carefully at the top conservative arguments, you will find each argument filled with fascism but disguised as patriotism. Closed borders or an iron curtain on the Mexican border, and English only are good examples of the hatred that fascist have of anyone different from them, and fear that their numbers will overwhelm the fascisit who are quickly becoming a minority. Hatred of gays as well. Hatred of Muslims, hatred of Obama, hatred of just about anything that calls attention to the fact that many conservatives are nothing but fascists and white supremacists underneath the suits.

Family values, God, patriotism, abortion, anti gays - all orchestrated attempts to create a sense of separateness, clannishness and bunker mentality for the "threatened" white race so that the fascists will have a patriotic rallying point. Red meat issues such as socialism, gay marriage, freedom of choice, anti militarism, anti Christian, all cleverly promoted to incense the masses to rise up and eliminate everyone but the white people. It's so very apparent to anyone who takes an independent view of the course of the conservative movement.

Never will you hear one word about the cost of the military which this year will be about 1.4 trillion dollars in actual expenses, dwarfing all other expenses in the federal government. There is a reason for this. The neo con dream is not dead. Asians, Indians, and all other races and religions on the planet according to the fascists' shouldn't have an opportunity to compete, and if the fascists get their way, all these people in the world will be eliminated just as the elderly, the sick, and the disabled will be eliminated in America. They will be off the budget, let to fend for themselves. This is the mentality of the fascist. This are the facts of what we are facing in the near future.

So be warned. Every time you hear a conservative argument, think to yourself, is this argument concealing a fascist agenda? 

Evil grows as quickly as morning Glories in the springtime when left unchallenged and free to follow its own nature.     

E. Raymond Rock (anagarika eddie) is a meditation teacher at DhammaRocksprings Theravada Buddhist Meditation Retreat Center: http://www.dhammarocksprings.org and author of “A Year to Enlightenment: http://www.amazon.com/Year-Enlightenment-Steps-Enriching-Living/dp/1564148912

He lived at Wat Pah Nanachat under Ajahn Chah as a Buddhist monk (novice) and at Wat Pah Baan Taad under Ajahn Maha Boowa and Wat Pah Daan Wi Weg under Ajahn Tui as a fully ordained Buddhist monk (bhikkhu). He was a postulant at Shasta Abbey, a Zen Buddhist monastery in northern California under Roshi Kennett; and a Theravada Buddhist anagarika at both Amaravati Monastery in the UK and Bodhinyanarama Monastery in New Zealand, both under Ajahn Sumedho. The author has meditated with the Korean Master Sueng Sahn Sunim; with Bhante Gunaratana at the Bhavana Society in West Virginia; and with the Tibetan Master Trungpa Rinpoche in Boulder, Colorado. He has practiced at the Insight Meditation Society and the Zen Center in San Francisco.
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» left by Paul Schroeder
2 years 2 days ago.
72 fans.
You have moved away from the contemplation of philosophical Buddhist bellybutton lint into a realm of American fascist paydirt; the worldview of a 'good German' is no different from the worldview of a 'good American.
 
Both German Nazis and The American Police State Right, today, are alike in that they both without question will 'take any orders' from an authority who they deem authentic.
 
Is it revealing that our prisons contain more per capita prisoners than ANY repressive regime in the world? Or that Arizona is the tip of the growing American fascist iceberg?
 
How soon will tea bagger's and armed militia's rhetoric become one with brown shirts when it comes to Mexicans and Asians and Blacks and Jews?
 
I can imagine a future when Blackwater security forces will be used at home to quash and control any protesters of our future fascist regime....
 
 
Kudos!!!
» left by e 2 years 2 days ago.
133 fans.
Okay Paul! Nothing wrong in speaking out when one detects injustices. The Buddha flew in the face of the Hindu caste system. What a rebel!
 
Best.....e
» left by Anonymous 2 years 2 days ago.
I am in your corner.
Paul
» left by Kenny
from Fall River, Mass.
2 years 2 days ago.
Great job Rock!
 
You said so much in such few words.
 
Yes, the Conservatives will talk about how Christian they are, yet according to Christian accounts Christ said to those who would listen to give up their riches if they wished to enter heaven. These days people won't give up anything to anyone, but they'll have you believe they've got one foot in the Almighty's kingdom.
 
LAUGHABLE!
» left by e 2 years 2 days ago.
133 fans.
Mammon got them by the throat. Thanks Kenny.
» left by David Levitt
2 years 2 days ago.
29 fans.
Of course all of this is true, and precisely what the collapse of the economy of the last 10 years was designed to do!

The city size bunkers such as the one that are being built below the Denver International airport that will be stocked with enough rations and life support systems to accommodate those selected few will be the new homes of our future generations.

This is not theory, this is practice! To learn more about this visit Jesse Venturas new book "American Conspiracies", and how because of his phenomenal ratings for revealing these intentions on his new program "Conspiracy Theory", the right is scrambling to discredit him in whatever manner necessary.

The difference between the attempts of the past to create a race superior society, and now, is that these sociopaths not only have complete control over the military where all good sociopaths tend to migrate, not to mention positions of control, i.e. the government, with their fingers planted firmly on the bomb, is the internet where they have the ability to virally spread their vitriolic message of hate and the reason inferior races are bringing us down.

Is it too late for open eyed activists to make a difference, such as was the case in WW1. Can you imagine how different things would be today had Einstein created the bomb in his homeland instead of America?
» left by e 2 years 2 days ago.
133 fans.
This time it's all over for everyone - this lifetime of course :) Thanks David.
» left by Anonymous 2 years 2 days ago.
Oops! hit the wrong key on my WW thing there Mr. Rock, should have been WW2, sorry.
» left by Michael Ramzy
2 years 2 days ago.
49 fans.
Good job, sir. The parallels have always been there, of course, and yet we shut our eyes to it since we can't be like that. Alas, are we becoming our own enemy?
» left by e 2 years 2 days ago.
133 fans.
It looks as if we are Mike, becoming our own enemies, and quickly. Write about it if you have a chance. If we don't express our heartfelt opinions, then we lose by default.
 
Best.....e
» left by Shaw Funami
2 years 2 days ago.
4 fans.
It is great article on modern society tendency. We should surely be alerted about uniformity movement including fascism. It can change crazy to normal, normal to crazy as observed in World War II. Thank you for your sharing.
» left by e 2 years 1 day ago.
133 fans.
I Like your "crazy to normal, normal to crazy." Good. It's a slippery slope that once begins to snowball has a momentum of its own. It has to be exposed now for what it is. Thanks, Shaw.
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