Scene from the Tea Party Fascist Rally Saturday October 12

This photo pretty much sums up the fascist underpinnings of the Tea Party movement. Like the fascist movements of Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, the Tea Party typically consists of retirees and pensioners, rural or exurban residents, and persons without a strong connection to mainstream organizations; that is "atomized" persons. Most of all, the demographic is characterized by a strong status anxiety which describes its core demographic: white men between the ages of 45 and 65.

Fascist movements find fertile soil where the masses have become un-moored from social and economic institutions or when those institutions have lost credibility. Charismatic leaders prey on the status anxiety that accompanies that economic and institutional change. Fascist leaders speak of "restoration" or national or moral renewal that will revive the fortunes of the nation or tribe and with it the status of those who have lost it. A mythic antiquarianism and the resuscitation of symbolic imagery from the past is employed to create a meta narrative and a corresponding political program
which drives the movement.

Fascist movements attack the foundation of traditional institutional life because institutions are a fundamental threat to the meta narratives these movements depend on. There is a profound difference between "meaning" as found in institutional authority and "meaning" created by charismatic leaders and reactionary movements. Institutional authority is built over time and represents the sum of that institution's experience with reality. An institution's understanding of reality and it's "meaning", though perhaps wrong in its particulars, is still rooted in an experience with it.

Charismatic reactionaries create "meaning" out of pure fabrication based on symbolic imagery shorn of historical context. That imagery is arranged into a political ideology of "conspiracy and destiny". Simply put, it posits that the tribe, whether nation, race, ethnic group or party, which was once great has been led astray and laid low by a cabal of insidious foreign parasites. These parasites seek to control and despoil the tribe by "contaminating" it with foreign elements whether racial, religious or cultural. As a consequence, the tribe is unable to realize its "true destiny" and has become lost. The political program of these reactionary groups always involves calling on the tribe to "wake up" and cleanse it of these parasitical elements.

The beauty of these reactionary ideologies is that they are not subject to the ordinary pressures of reason and rationality. They are not shaped by any experience with "reality". Because the underlying meta narrative is a belief in a secret conspiracy of hidden actors, the charismatic leader is free to shape his interpretation of events without reference to 'expert' opinion or verification. Contrary facts are dismissed with impunity and interpretations connected to facts are understood as manifestations of the conspiracy.

American Fascist Leader Glenn Beck Calls for Destruction of Political Opponents

Glenn's Vision of a Spiritually Cleansed America

It's never been a secret what Glenn Beck is. For those who have watched him on his personal network "The Blaze" know him to be the Joseph Goebbels of the Tea Party. This is the man who shamelessly invents the most vile and outlandish conspiracies and blood libels his "progressive" opponents.

However, today he went one step closer to proudly wearing the swastika on his right arm - he asked his troglodytic acolytes to "destroy progressive ideas". For those of us with even a smidgen of familiarity with 20th century history know what that means.

Josef Stalin declared "kill the man, kill the idea". Where Stalin murdered with the connivance of special courts, Hitler never waited for a court order. He murdered the ideas in their beds at night or in the dark recesses of an internment camp.

Glenn Beck can't argue his case - ignorance and pomposity have no argument. So like his spiritual gurus Hitler and Stalin, Beck pines for the day when book burnings and internment camps for "socialists", "marxists", "leftys" and "progressives" will be the law of the land.

Patriotism Means Defending American Values and the American Way of Life

The title of this post is what the blog is all about: defending American values and our way of life by exposing fascist conspirators and Theocrat sedition. America is truly under attack today and our core values of freedom and liberty are being threatened by a cabal of plutocrats who fund fake "grassroots movements" and fundamentalist extremism. The fascist demagogues making war on our nation are known by many names: Rush Limbaugh, Bryan Fisher, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz and Michelle Bachmann just to name a few.

But these are only the bitter, rotten fruit of a diseased tree whose roots stretch back to the Business Plot of 1933 that sought to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt in a coup d'etat. Make no mistake, the corporate parasites who brought the nation to its knees during the Great Depression and tried to seize the state are doing the same thing today. Their goal is still the same: to overthrow representative democracy and enslave the American people to corporate their oligarchy.

Who are these parasites?  They are legion; found in virtually every community throughout the nation. Some of them are well known like the criminal syndicate "Koch Industries" run by the fraternal leeches David and Charles Koch:

Traitors Dave & Chuck Koch

Meet your would-be corporate masters; the grinning faces of sedition grown fat off the labor of the 'little people'. They hate government, not because it limits freedom, but because it limits their freedom to exploit whoever, whatever, and however they want. Government tells the Koch's they can't pay their employees less than a minimum wage costing them millions in profits and dividends because Lord knows $33.3 billion is not enough for these blood suckers to live on. Government tells the Koch boys they can't despoil and pollute the land we live on, the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink. Government tells these corpulent kings of Mammon that they have to give something back to the community from which they have stolen so much.

Behind every right-wing whore in congress, on television or radio are fascist pimps like Dave and Chuck Koch using them to crush the life out our freedom, our liberty and our very humanity. Dave and Chuck Koch are traitors, guilty of sedition and conspiracy against the constitution and lawful governance. They should be indicted, tried for treason and sentenced to forced labor while their stolen billions are used to re-build the communities their criminality have destroyed.