[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick]
You might scoff at the question, "Are you a fascist?" But you should give yourself more credit. Mussolini defines "fascist" quite simply: "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
So, after all, maybe you are a fascist. Here, let me explain. There are countless examples of fascism in everyday American life.
For instance when you send your kids to government school for their state-approved common core "education" sometimes they will have a list of marginally nutritious foods to choose from, like chicken fingers and french fries and pasteurized milk. Private companies raise these foods, make these foods, and deliver these foods to your child so that they can sit in hard chairs and stare at blackboards invented in the 11th century (and thanks to government still in use today) and learn the US government's version of history (which is often in direct opposition to factual record).
In this way, private companies work with the government to not only help fatten up the kids at school but also take their cut of money that has been extorted (taxed) from the public all while giving them a good down-home style indoctrination.
Out on the streets, no, it's not just police keeping the streets "safe" from people going five miles over the speed limit or not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign. Companies like Redflex and American Traffic Solutions are there day-in and day-out to serve your ticketing needs.
E-Gov link is a company that helps many small towns earn good, honest income into the millions of dollars every year by serving people with everything from speeding to parking tickets. E-Gov link wants to make paying your fines so simple that it even allows towns to accept Bitcoin. It's wonderful, really, if you think about. How else would the towns make money, since they produce virtually nothing people would actually pay the government for if there were better options.
Hate going to the DMV and begging for permission to travel or let the government know that you own a vehicle? Well thank God for fascism, because AAA, a private company in the USSA, let's you go to the DMV without going to the DMV! As AAA states on their website, "Fast and Easy DMV Services. Can't make it to the DMV to renew your vehicle registration? Now you can take care of select DMV tasks at an AAA branch near you."
How nice! Now instead of waiting for an entire day at the DMV for tasks you could easily complete online in just a few minutes, you can walk into a nice air conditioned AAA office and pay your tickets, your annual registration and other stuff. That's, after all, what makes America the greatest country on Earth. Fascism!
You see, it's not so hard accepting that you might be a little bit of a fascist. Once you accept this you can start embracing your love of fascism when you walk into your bank, watch the news, join the military, fill up your gas tank, smoke some opium (now straight from the CIA and the troops securing Afghanistan for more than a decade) or do any of the countless fascistic things Americans do everyday. Even enjoying your sports is a stomach-turning fascist experience, unless you love fascism, which you might…
Has your city recently received a new sports stadium? If so, it is more than likely that stadium was funded by money taken from your friends even if they don't like sports or are hermits. Yes, even hermits must pay for the stadiums or risk being thrown in a rape camp. It's for the greater good! As you'll notice, most times when you walk into that stadium, you'll be implored to sing to a patriotic flag and stand and cheer when the field is used to glorify death and murder.
Did you enjoy that? You're probably a fascist.
See what I mean?
Without fascism, who would bring us things like this:
or this?
Or private mercenary armies to fight right along side the good ol' troops in the eternal War of Terror…
After all, those Middle Eastern, African and old Soviet bloc countries aren't just going to bomb themselves!
And, of course, the height of fascism in the US and the source of all it's power is the private Federal Reserve banking cartel. I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said something along the lines of, "Without a communist style private central bank there will never be true freedom and prosperity in America". Or maybe I heard him wrong.
Some people think Thomas Jefferson had this to say on central banks, "The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."
Well, who knows, that happened years ago, who can say.
But as you can see if it weren't for everyday fascism there would not be the America you know today. If you live in the US, and you like it, then you are a fascist. Stand tall, be proud. After all, Hitler was also a fascist and he was probably the least evil of all the main powers involved in WWII. Stalin killed far more in his gulags, after all. Stalin, that bastard commie.
You can now enjoy $16 trillion bailouts and monumental quantitative easing programs that put money in the backpockets of crony-capitalists and parasitical regulators who regulate the individual to death guilt-free.
I think it's time that Americans who like their system come right out and say it proudly, "I'm a fascist and proud of it"! They should stop hiding behind vagaries and call things what they really are. Neo-cons… call them what they really are. Neo-Nazis.
Sure, you don't have to go back to the old brown-shirts and jackboots look. After all, that was nearly a hundred years ago. Fashion changes. Technology has advanced.
Nowadays when you get stopped at a constitution-free zone checkpoint and get asked to show your papers, please, those protecting the Homeland look like this.
That's way cooler.
Be proud, when all is said and done, the history books will remember the United State as having perfected fascism.
The USA, number one, yet again! Don't be ashamed of your fascism, be proud! No one has ever done it better.
[Editor's Note: If you live in the US and aren't a fascist and can see where this is all headed subscribe to The Dollar Vigilante newsletter for info on how to survive and prosper during and after the collapse of US fascism… or if you just want to get out, ASAP, contact TDV Passports]
