Category Fascism

People who are racist would rather live under a dictatorship of their choosing than ever have a black president again. The dominant culture would rather have a strongman leader. A dictator of their choosing. They don’t want a system that…

No one in Republican leadership today reflects the characteristics of Nazi Germany’s Adolph Hitler. Right? Could your Republican governor be the new Hitler? Or are we seeing a return? Has the return been happening? With more to come? Something that…

Climate change. Science deniers. The loss of big money. And fascism. Sounds like a few good topics for a game of Jeopardy. Here’s how they’re connected. The Republican candidate for Senate, Christine O’Donnell, said this over a decade ago: “American…

The Overton Window is a political concept. It shows what is politically acceptable to most people at any given time. And often, moving that window of acceptability is the purpose of cultural wars. When you hear outlandish questions and statements…

In the ongoing battle of book bans, here’s how to ban the Bible from your child’s school library. Is someone trying to get books banned in your school library? Maybe they already got some banned. The person(s) trying to do…

There is no such thing as an organization called Antifa. If we try to browse antifa.com, it currently forwards to whitehouse.gov or antifa.org, which displays a funny tweet about Antifa. Antifa means anti-fascist. If you’re against fascism, you’re Antifa. As…

One of the myths that people say is, “The right is turning to fascism”. However, it’s not the right that’s changing, it’s everyone else who is changing. When we look at our history from a multicultural perspective, we understand that…

In his book The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Wilhelm Reich wrote about how fascism came to power in Germany prior to World War II. There’s a lot in this book that’s terrifyingly relevant, but on this point precisely, he says:…

Bans are censorship. It’s not a slippery slope. It’s happening in a lot of places. And it’s two-sided. One of them is promising and one of them is worrying. The worrying part is that there are republicans and people like…

What do you call it when a Governor demands that businesses, including the most important ones in the state, get in line behind a political agenda? What do you call it when the leader of a government says, there will…