The Fuck You Nation

Fascism is  neofeudal – a top-down system in which the Few rule the Many – it takes many forms.

If we think this way, then America's war with Hitler was not a war between "democracy" and "fascism" -- it was a war between two competing totalitarian models.  

America has always been a fascist state--but, a very sophisticated one, since it offers the illusion of freedom and liberty while making every effort to make sure that the "people" do what they are told. 

This is something inherited from the British.  Britain, after all, was an ethnically mixed society.  First, the Celts and Picts, then the Romans, then the Saxons and the Jutes and the Angles. Then the Danes. Then the Normans,  Each group had its own culture and each competed for place, with some rising to power over others.

But while power in such circumstances can be achieved by violence and usually is -- it cannot be maintained without the the cooperation of the conquered.   After that, violence is a last resort – mostly to exterminate those who don't “fit” in.

Early America was also ethnically diverse.  The Rulers of the early Republic talked a lot about freedom and liberty – but they made sure that this remained just talk.  

The Indians would not fit in.  So they were exterminated.  African Americans were  enslaved.  At first, formally; then informally until this day.

Hitler’s Germany was really created by Bismarck in the 19^th Century – a confederation of ethnically diverse Germanic states, which Russia, the UK, France, and America were at pains to destroy in WWI.

Then came Germany.   The Jews were Hitler’s Indians.   Belsen and Buchenwald were his versions of reservations with genocide equivalent to the bounties put on Indians in the 19^th Century.   

FDR did not care about the Jews.  But Hitler had managed to turn the German economy around a lot faster than he could.  He realized that he American would fail without the social regimentation offered by a “good war”.

The differences between Hitler and FDR were largely cosmetic -- except  that FDR was an imperialist and Hitler was nationalist.  No, he did not want to conquer Europe. Nor even the USSR.  If he had, it would have been impossible to maintain his dreams of Germanic racial purity. 

FDR, like all American presidents, thought then and since thought America was the "exceptional nation" , uber alles.  America should rule the world.  And for at least half a century it has.

Hitler borrowed American racialist ideas of racial purity and eugenic progress to push his notion of the Aryanism.  But this was childish atavism compared to Anglo-American concept of  rule by Aristos –a ruling class defined not by race or education – but by power.  Ethnic unity has never been the goal in American – rather, the contrary – ethnic division and competition, in a fundamentally hierarchical system with scapegoats at the bottom, the omegas which all the betas above can save, while the alphas play at the top.

Today, we see the true face of America.  Thanks to Donald Trump. Trump is not really different from any other President. He is just more honest. Obama said “we are the exceptional nation”. That sounded a lot better than, “we are the fuck you nation” . But it really means the same thing.

America was always like Dorian Gray.  It’s public image was a lie. Hidden away is its’ real image: evil, corrupt and ugly.

America “soft power” (sic) always depended on Hollywood and the entertainment industry, peddling human rights, equality, democracy, the agency of the individual, and moral vision.  To sell abroad, the entertainment industry represented these things as human values – rather than just American ones.   

The nastiness of American fascism means cognitive dissonance.  People are programmed to believe in democratic values and the human goodness, as opposed by Evil (there must always be a bad guy).

But it is obvious now that the “bad guy” is America. And makes anyone proud to be "American" a bad guy, too. 

America is indeed the Great Satan.

And Jesus?  Probably Julian Assange comes closest.  Reviled, abused, persecuted – for obeying  a higher morality.