Sid Thomas S*-ing to Power

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This is an attempt to extend conversations begun over many years into the present, applying results of work in between to gain analytic method, continuity, scope, depth, vivacity and permanence

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Right Wing Fascism: The Edge

AMERICAN RIGHT-WING FASCISM: THE EDGE

How it is distinct from, but co-opts, conservatism. The Jewish intervention.

I. "The Paranoids Were Right"

This was a NY Post headline I clipped out to show classes how we 60's radicals got compensation for illegal wiretaps. Never mind the accusations were correct. Those making them were tagged 'paranoids'. This was typical, labeling those who turned out to be correct as mental disturbed in some way, rather than reacting rationally and instinctively against maleficence.

The kicker, of course, is THEY were/are the paranoids.

That flip NY York Post style -- like the Southron's use of the familiar term 'cuffee' for helpful domestic blackies -- says "you'se still be da par'noids, boys. 'Dis time 'round we won't need warrants, we got Judge Dredd.'"

The Edge lies in their assumption that they have the right to be this way, do these things, and never be required to pay for their way of being. What is edgy about it, you can't confront one point (vertice) without confronting them all. They have identified with a false totality that can only complete itself by getting over on others.

II. "The Conspiracy Nuts Were Right"

This wasn't, but could have been the NY Times headline after the Pakistan government did a U turn on the story that Benazir Bhutto died as a result of the suicide bomb blast, after the videotape surfaced showing her actually being shot. Again, such terms as "conspiracy nuts", "leftist loonies" (she was a 'person of the people', mythically, therefore 'leftist' in the flat brow Fascist Edge lexicon) pop out. Editors say, "wait for Scotlant Yard to have a look." (Why? - they can't see CNN?) But what are you gonna do when the conspiracy nuts were right? Dwell on the facts? Bloody unlikely.

Identifying, analyzing and tracing the karmic consequences of this fascist edge has been half a lifetime's work, for me. The first half was devoted to study of philosophy and religion. The tools acquired there went for understanding the post Vietnam War/60's/baby boomer generation, as a group historical psychological phenomenon. In confronting and tracing this mentality, I have kept in mind:

-its inner Unity, a twistedness perpetuated in the group-think solidarity of Reagan- Bush Republicanism. This represents a kind of 'hardened essence' of the edge.

-it's Continuity: after congealing around Richard Nixon's White House, surfacing in Reagan, the Bush's, and the New World Order international network ... the end of the Cold War constellated a Mid East South Asia perimeter with Israel, Oil and the Vatican as vertices along the Edge. In America, there was a transformation of right-wing politics from: pro-Vietnam war Republican militarism, under Nixon -- with Kissinger running things abroad ... to anti-tax and "social issues" conservatism.

A particular "surge" of political influence intersected this continuity during this period given the name Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC) by James Petras. This was/is the aggressive pro-Israeli, AIPAC Jewish lobby group exposed by K. MacDonald, Mearsheimer and Walt, Scott Ritter, etc. as behind the Iraq war. Richard Perle nested future ZPC network activity under kooky Washington State Senator "Scoop" Jackson's auspices. They/it kicked Francis and Joe Sobran off National Review; kicked the sniveling Wm. F. Buckley upstairs; put the Kristols and Murdoch in position, now advanced to NY Times Sunday columnist and Wall Street Journal owner respectively. They, with Roger Ailles at Fox and Ed Rollins at CNN put the words and pictures together to forge the core of Main Stream Media "news".

---its psychosemiotics: -- the psychological language behaviors it manifests in communication. Psychosemiotics is a new field of study specializing specifically in the way individual and group mentalities combine in use of signs (Ex.: "we") to create such things as the fascist edge. Without a new formal apparatus, similar to that for mapping the cognitive content of natural or artificial languages (quantificational logic), which I have devised, the problem of showing the Unity in the Continuity could not be systematically solved. With such apparatus (used, but not shown here) the unity in the continuity can be shown and seen in the threads of actual sign-use by the historical group, America. (Ex.: "our God").

III. "The Extremists" are the People vs. The Right Wing Fascist Jewish Edge -- and they are right.

The Fascist Edge overplayed its hand in Pakistan. One tape sufficient to expose the twistedness didn't get erased. That is important. It won't be changed.

IV. Idolotry and the God that Doesn't Exist

Too many fake hate crimes

--traced up to the God of Non-Being => installation of the essence of Evil as od