The Militant Left's Embrace of Fascism

In our politically divided America, many folks on the left have accused Trump, Republicans, and conservatives of supporting fascism in recent years.  Indeed, the militant left has even embraced a domestic terrorist group to ostensibly fight such fascism under the name of Antifa, who ironically use very fascistic methods in an attempt to accomplish such designs.

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, fascism is defined as, “A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government. Oppressive, dictatorial control.”

While I can understand why militant leftists hated the egomaniacal Trump for his mean tweets and putting America first again, there seemed to be very little that Trump, the GOP, or conservatives in general did that would rise to the level of fascism according to that definition.

The militant left, as ensconced by Big Tech, Public Schools, “woke” corporations, and of course our “benevolent” government sure seem to hit a lot closer to the mark of that definition these days, especially when it comes to their oppressive actions.  From Covid mandates, to criminalizing parents, to on-demand abortion, to spying on our bank transactions, it is the left in general and the Biden administration specifically that sure seems to be embracing fascistic tactics in their governing of our nation despite Biden having insisted he would be the president to unify all Americans.

First, during his campaign, Biden stated that he would not mandate Covid vaccinations.  More recently he stated that he intends to roll out a directive that any company that employees 100 or more people will need to enforce vaccinations and/or testing of all of those employees.  Further, Biden has directed that many federal government employees must also be vaccinated.  This includes every member of the armed forces being mandatorily vaccinated or be subject to discharge from the service, possibly under other than honorable conditions.

These nation-wide mandates have even manifested themselves for our previously celebrated heroes of first responders of police, fire fighters, and nurses and doctors.  The foreseeable result has been the quitting of many of these heroes from these thankless jobs as some have refused to comply. 

This leftist vaccination mindset has already gotten so bad that even the University of Colorado Hospital has recently rejected a life-saving kidney transplant from a private donor to her friend because neither one was willing to be jabbed with the Covid19 vaccine.

“Here I am, willing to be a direct donor to her. It does not affect any other patient on the transplant list,” Ms. Fougner said. “How can I sit here and allow them to murder my friend when I’ve got a perfectly good kidney and can save her life?”

Ms. Lutali, the would-be donor recipient, shared with KDVR-TV the letter she received from UCHealth regarding the rejection of her transplant procedure, “The transplant team at University of Colorado Hospital has determined that it is necessary to place you inactive on the waiting list. You will be inactivated on the list for non-compliance by not receiving the COVID vaccine,” the letter said.

“You will have 30 days to begin the vaccination series. If your decision is to refuse COVID vaccination you will be removed from the kidney transplant list.”

Both the donor and the would-be recipient stated that they would sign a waiver to remove all liability from the hospital due to anything Covid related, but the hospital still refuses to perform this life-saving procedure because of a virus that has a 99.8% survivability rating.  Does this smack of Fascism anyone?

Next, as most kids have returned to schools this year after remotely learning last year ostensibly due to Covid fears, many more parents have stepped up and started taking note of what many public-school districts are “teaching” our children.  This has often resulted in some woke leftist public-school administrations pushing back hard against parents.

As an example, one Rhode Island mom by the name of Nicole Solas drew national attention earlier this year when her local school board in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, threatened to sue her over public record requests she made to learn what her local school district was teaching students. The school board ultimately opted against taking legal action against her. 

Solas made the requests to determine whether her child would be taught about gender identity and critical race theory ideology, two controversial issues that have led to an increase in parental attendance at school board meetings across the country this year. 

Parents “simply want to know what their kids are learning, and they want to have a say if what their kids are learning is not appropriate,” she says. 

Because of upset parents that are unhappy with the leftist indoctrination being taught at many public schools and vociferously articulating their displeasure with school boards accordingly, the National Association of School Boards asked President Joe Biden for assistance looking into whether threats against school board members and other school leaders could be classified as “domestic terrorism.”  The result of that request has been a directive  from Biden’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, to the FBI and federal prosecutors to meet with federal, state, and local leaders to look into a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” allegedly being made against “school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.”

Now don’t get me wrong; I do not condone any violence, threats of violence or other unlawful acts committed by upset parents or anyone else.  That said, those issues can and should be dealt with swiftly by what is left of our defunded police forces on a local or perhaps state level.  There is absolutely no need, nor likely jurisdiction for the feds to become involved in such issues.  This, rather is just one more example of federal suppression and oppression towards parents that disagree with what the government thinks your children should be indoctrinated… uhmm… taught.

Next, the Biden administration has also stated that they would like for the government to be provided data from your bank any time you make a transaction of $600 or more.  In this way they can ascertain if your transactions are deemed appropriate, acceptable, and in line with leftist values.  Oh, and so they can make sure they receive any appropriate taxes they are due for certain monetary transactions.  No fascism here folks.

Last on the list of the left’s foray into fascist tactics is the ultra-radical attempt by Nancy Pelosi to pass the ironically and erroneously named Women’s Health Protection Act.  This leftist dream bill, if passed, would endanger essentially all state-level abortion restrictions, existing state and federal conscience protection laws, and various provisions limiting taxpayer funding for abortions.  Indeed, the bill expressly prohibits existing laws that regulate abortion and the abortion industry. The bill bans informed consent requirements, reflection periods, and provisions that give women the opportunity to view an image of their unborn child or listen to the child’s heartbeat.

The proposed federal policy would also preempt policies like the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which currently protects women and their unborn children in more than a dozen states from inhumane late-term abortions performed after 20 weeks. The scientific evidence suggests that a baby can feel excruciating pain during an abortion procedure performed after 20 weeks.  Further, the Women’s Health Protection Act would imperil policies like the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer dollars from paying for elective abortion in federal programs like Medicaid. Over the past four decades, the Hyde Amendment has saved more than 2.4 million lives.  It would also jeopardize longstanding policies that protect conscience and religious freedom, ignoring America’s proud tradition of respecting individuals and entities’ right to not participate in abortion.

These pro-life policies enjoy broad support across the political spectrum. A majority of Americans oppose using taxpayer dollars to fund elective abortions, including 65% of independents and 31% of Democrats, according to a January Marist poll commissioned by the Catholic organization Knights of Columbus. Likewise, a majority of Americans support conscience rights for individuals and entities that object to abortion.  But the leftist government knows better when it comes to terminating innocent unborn life.  Nancy Pelosi’s own Archbishop Cordileone, condemned this act stating that “This proposed legislation is nothing short of child sacrifice,” he continued. “[It] is surely the type of legislation one would expect from a devout Satanist, not a devout Catholic.”

This is just a sampling of the over-the-top, morally corrupt, extra-constitutional, and unconstitutional policies that the left has or is hoping to enact to better control every aspect of your life.  They want to ensure that you are mandatorily vaccinated, masked, compliant with leftist school agendas for your children, supportive of unrestricted and publicly-supported abortion on demand, and transparent in all of your financial dealings greater than $600 dollars.

But it is Trump, the Republicans, and conservatives that are the authoritarians and fascists that are denying Americans their rights and freedoms, all according to the left.  This nonsense must be lawfully fought in all ways possible.  We must not acquiesce to these leftist demands, dictates, and unlawful acts.  It is the Left that are acting as the enemies of liberty and with their tactics, they seemingly have far more in common with fascism than the right in America ever has.

UPDATE: It has been brought to my attention that the meme I had used previously for this post was erroneously attributed to Winston Churchill.  As I strive to always be as accurate as possible, I have chosen to remove that meme accordingly and simply put the quote up as something I believe to be true based on strong evidence supporting this statement.  (See the many accounts of Antifa riots.)  Our resident leftist who is no longer welcome at this site, jubilantly suggested that I "was caught in a lie" regarding the Churchill meme.  The hate-America Leftists these days evidently live constantly with their own lies all the time so that they assume everyone else does too.  I was not aware when I put up the original quote that it was not a Churchill quotation.  When I did become aware of it, I corrected it.  That is called a mistake.  When you say or do something you KNOW not to be true, THAT is a lie.  I give you Biden's promise to bring all Americans home from Afghanistan as an example of a real lie.  It is just one of many reasons, including the fascist issues listed in the posting above as to why Biden should be removed from office.  Cheers!

To Denounce ALL Hate and Racism

Once again it seems America has come completely unhinged, with the help of the mainstream “un-biased” media there to fan the flames of our own cultural destruction.  Sadly, racism has always been a problem in our nation, and around the world, for that matter.  Even more sadly, it will always be present in our society to at least a hopefully minor extent.  It is an inexcusable evil that, when left unchecked, has resulted in the dehumanization of others so that they could be exploited, enslaved, and even murdered.  Even more sadly, the number of people enslaved today throughout the world in 2017 exceeds the numbers that were enslaved in 19^th century America.  Many of these slaves today are perniciously sold and used as sex slaves.

Yet despite such horrific numbers, America was doing far better with its racism problem in recent times, until the last decade or so.  We even had a majority of Americans vote for our first black president.  While I agreed with very little of President Obama’s policies and had seen many disturbing signs that had cracked his polished veneer while he was still running for the White House, I too was buoyed by the fact that America in its decency could indeed elect a person of color to the presidency.  Indeed, I would venture that the timing in our history was such that Barack Obama’s color was absolutely an asset to his election.  (Never mind the foolishness of voting for someone simply because of their color, instead of their qualifications.)

I was greatly disheartened, however, to see that rather than further unite our nation as Americans, President Obama squandered the good will bestowed on him by a significant majority and decided to insert himself into more localized incidents; indeed he was often prompted to do so by the complicit mainstream media once again.  The net result was that instead of us all simply being “Americans”, he further divided us into hyphenated Americans, most especially black-Americans and white-Americans.

Recently in Charlottesville, Virginia, there was a relatively small gathering of assorted white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and various nut-job racists that gathered with a permit to exercise their first amendment rights to spew their vile speech.  It should have been a minor story of only local interest, but sadly some Nazi-wannabe thought it would be a great idea to become a domestic terrorist and kill people by driving his car into a group of counter-protesters.  Luckily only one lady was killed instead of the dozens that could have been.  This terrorist, whom I will not name to give him further notoriety, will hopefully be punished to the fullest extent of the law for his act of murder accordingly.

It seems that the inflamed result of this event for some of our brothers and sisters on the far left is to insist on tearing down any vestige of our national history if it is even tangentially connected to the confederacy or even much of western civilization.  Indeed, eight statues and monuments have been destroyed, defaced, or pulled down by these radicals on the left since the Charlottesville murder. 

One of the monuments defaced was of St. Junipero Serra, who was a priest and tireless advocate for Native Americans.  Another monument was a bust of Abraham Lincoln, which leads to the question; do these idiots have any idea of what they are even protesting?  They certainly don’t have any historical knowledge evidently.    

Recently, Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz implored his fellow liberals,

 "Do not glorify the violent people who are now tearing down the statues. Many of these people, not all of them, many of these people are trying to tear down America. Antifa is a radical, anti-America, anti-free market, communist, socialist, hard-left sensorial organization... They use violence. Just because they are opposed to fascism and to some of these monuments, should not make them heroes of the liberals. ... Doing what Stalin did, just erasing history and rewriting it to serve current purposes does pose a danger. And it poses a danger of education malpractice. I'm a liberal, and I think it’s the obligation of liberals to speak out against the hard-left radicals, just like it’s the obligation of conservatives to speak out against the extremism of the hard right.''

Professor Dershowitz makes a good point.  Since the far-left hate groups of Black Lives Matter and antifa want to tear down confederate statues, what is to stop them from wanting to tear down monuments to Washington, Jefferson, and Madison?  After all, these founding fathers were slave owners too.  What is the difference between Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee to these ignoramuses? 

It has been posited to me that Washington and Jefferson were great founders of this country so their slave owning is somehow overlooked or excused.  I frankly don’t buy it, as those guilty of tearing down statues to somehow hide our history don’t seem to love the idea of America in the first place, so why would they leave its founders alone? 

Now personally I obviously don’t think any vestige of our founders should be disturbed, much less destroyed, but for the sake of consistency on the far left, how do they reconcile this disparity in their targeted anger?  Further, do these fools think that by removing statues or defacing monuments, we will somehow purge our history?  We fought one of our bloodiest wars over the sin of slavery.  That sin was paid for in blood.  We need to acknowledge that and try to make this nation one for all Americans again.

Today’s far right hate groups are grotesquely wrong in their racism and hate.  The far left hate groups are likewise wrong in their counter-racism and hate.  The calling out of the extremes on both the left and right fringes should be the cause of every decent American.

That said, “both-siderism” is something that has taken a lot of flak lately from some quarters, particularly from the far left.  I suppose I am guilty of this from a political perspective.  But I really don’t consider myself as pointing out what’s wrong on the left as a means of deflection from the wrongdoing on the right.  On the contrary, I could care less what political persuasion one is.  I am pointing out what is right and what is wrong - period.  

It is because of this that I can unequivocally point out all violence, racism, and hate regardless of the group that is fomenting it, whether it is from the KKK or the BLM; the neo-Nazis or the antifa crowd.  All are despicable and all are deserving of decent Americans’ condemnation accordingly. (And yes, some are indeed worse than others are, but that doesn’t give any of them a free pass because their transgressions’ results of hate are less in body count.)

At the end of the day, we need to come together once again, regardless of color, faith, or political persuasion to call out against the wrongs and evil in our society.

In the meantime, if folks want to help fight against white supremacy, perhaps they should call out the evil of Planned Parenthood, which aborts approximately 266 black babies every day.

Just a thought…

The Daily Signal: Far-Left ‘Antifa’ Agitators on the Rise in the Age of Trump

 I found this interesting article by Ken McIntyre and Kevin Mooney on The Daily Signal regarding antifa that seemed particularly relevant in light of our current discussions on this blog.  It definitely lends credence to the "many sides" comment of President Trump.  Enjoy.

When self-described anti-fascists showed up in force Saturday to oppose a rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, some of them turned violent, according to media reports and eyewitness accounts.

President Donald Trump did not specify radicals who operate under the banner of Antifa, an abbreviation for anti-fascist or anti-fascist action, when he said Tuesday that “both sides” bore responsibility for the violence and bloodshed that left three dead and dozens injured.

It is hard to know at this juncture how many of the hundreds of counterprotesters considered themselves affiliated with Antifa. Nor is it clear how many of them were among those who squared off against the white supremacists marching in downtown Charlottesville, trading punches and blows, some with lengths of wood.

The full facts await the findings of a Justice Department investigation of the Charlottesville violence announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

“Antifa is a coalition of hyperviolent activists who are far-left anarchists or communists,” said Matthew Vadum, senior vice president at the Washington-based Capital Research Center. “They could be considered domestic terrorists. They are not legitimate actors in the democratic process.”

Read more here.