Make America RACIST and fascist AGAIN!

Par les Artistes pour la Paix 1ᵉʳ janvier 2025

  1. Make America racist again

https://nypost.com/2024/12/27/us-news/ny-prison-guards-beat-handcuffed-inmate-robert-brooks-video/#

Une vidéo révoltante (le New York Post dit « troublante », so sorry that it has disturbed you…) montre six gardes de prison de gros gabarit rouant de coups un prisonnier noir, aux mains menottées. Il en est mort. Ce sont des choses qui arrivent dans le pays au monde où la plus grande proportion de population est en prison, plus de deux millions, dont une partie importante racisée : de pauvres personnes privées d’éducation trop chère et exclusive, gardés par d’autres pauvres ignorants pour la plupart, budget restreint oblige. Quelle ignominie! Black Lives Matter!

Pierre J. qui souhaite néanmoins à toustes une bonne année 2025.

Le plus grand avocat de la défense du Québec me répond : « Merci du message! Je ne me rappelle pas une seule journée exempte d’ignominie publique. J’ai peine à imaginer chacune des souffrances anonymes dont nous savons qu’elles se produisent à chaque instant de nos existences! Après, pour l’année balbutiante, il ne reste que l’espérance… et la persistance à continuer. Avec toute ma reconnaissance. »

  1. Make America fascist again

En 2003, Lawrence Britt, docteur en sciences politiques, en étudiant les régimes fascistes de Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto et Pinochet, a découvert qu’ils avaient tous 14 éléments en commun : il a appelé cela les caractéristiques identitaires du fascisme.

SIGNES IMMINENTS DE FASCISME

Nationalisme puissant et persistant – Dédain pour les droits humains – Identification d’ennemis pour unifier une cause – Suprématie militaire – Sexisme rampant – Mass médias contrôlés – Obsession sur la sécurité nationale – Interrelation entre gouvernement et religion – Pouvoirs corporatifs protégés – Syndicats ouvriers affaiblis – Dédain des intellectuels et des artistes – Obsession sur les crimes et châtiments – Copinages entre puissants et corruption – Élections frauduleuses

The 14 characteristics are:

  1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism

Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

  1. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of « need. » The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, génocide par une nation amie.

  1. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

  1. Supremacy of the Military

Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

  1. Rampant Sexism

The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.

  1. Controlled Mass Media

Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

  1. Obsession with National Security

Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

  1. Religion and Government are Intertwined

Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.

  1. Corporate Power is Protected

The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

  1. Labor Power is Suppressed

Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

  1. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts

Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

  1. Obsession with Crime and Punishment

Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

  1. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

  1. Fraudulent Elections

Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.