The Coming Fascism
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- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 16:11:05 -0800 (PST)
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The Coming Fascism
by Karen Kwiatkowski
The Anderson-Obama interview this week wrapped by congressional
hearings on government collusion with friends and relatives (otherwise
known as the Bernie Madoff scandal) have brought forth only more
government whining, moaning and self-justification. In them, we have
also been given a pale notice of future full-fledged American fascism.
Our government is bloated past the point of repair, and those in
government understand this perfectly. We still have an overstretched,
poorly led, and unreliable military web, funded by various other
confused governments and unborn American taxpayers. Before long, the
state will not only demand we spend what paltry savings we have as a
civic duty, but that we bear more children to ensure the kingdom has
serfs.
The military empire abroad is a bubble. It looks big, even shiny; it
hovers over lesser entities as if it is something. The old alchemist
fantasy of creating gold from lead at least led to many productive
inventions – only when the fantasy became opportunistic dogma and
blind faith were people fooled. In terms of American empire – 700
military installations around the world fearing for their collective
future as they watch their individual backs – is not gold, is not
powerful, and is not fooling anybody.
The American financial empire exists as a thin, transparent,
vulnerable shell of its former self. It too is a bubble – yet unlike
the military fantasy, Americans readily conceive of financial
bubbledom. Our money – that fiat paper which we have been using for
our houses, our cars, our pay-later purchases – is vaporous in the
sense that we do not really see it, feel it or understand it. We do
not control it – that role is extra-constitutionally, extra-
democratically ceded to the Federal Reserve, an entity cloaked in
mystery until the 2008 presidential campaign of Ron Paul pulled the
unraveling thread.
Like the US dollar, signing your name, making your promise, has become
quaint and archaic. Our money is promises to pay by those who do not
produce or save. The bundled promises of such payments, much like the
social security lockbox, Medicare, and government pensions, we now
call "toxic assets," bringing to mind poisonous vapors. Vaporous from
the beginning, their metaphorical description falls not far from the
tree. Vaporous, as this definition explains: "vaguely formed,
fanciful, or unreliable." US fiat currency today, as it has been for
some time, is exactly this.
As abrupt and painful as it is for bubbles to burst, we get over it.
Individual creativity, hard work, and indeed love will get people
through, as it generally does in all things. The military bubble will
burst happily, and troops will flow homeward, bases will languish,
orders will be given but not followed. Defection will be of the heart,
even as economics keeps many on the payroll. The financial bubble will
also be overcome – as people shift down and shift forward in their
lives and dreams. We will read of Zimbabwe’s reality-based decision to
abandon its currency and allow freedom of commerce – a classic case of
Gandhi’s reported response of "There go my people; I must run to catch
up with them for I am their leader" – with interest, and be inspired.
We will share Representative Kucinich’s contempt of the state’s
frantic spasms of the past several months as "an unprecedented
fraud." ... (cont)
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