Category Archives: Enemy/Scapegoat

Is ‘the enemy’ used to unify and manipulate? Are terrorists the only enemy? Who is supporting them? Is the enemy list growing? Have the monsters been set loose on Maple Street, USA? Is assumption of trustworthiness in most encounters being replaced by suspicion of everyone? Is the potential for mob rule more likely? Does the enemy include your neighbor who doesn’t agree with you? When will the enemy be tattooed with a scarlet letter? When will guilty until proven innocent become the law? When will mass graves guide our choices? How far is too far?

Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism

“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”
Libertarians are stealthily taking over America.
Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.

 

WAR, Civil or World, Enables Hunting Humans

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Andy Hailey

This is about the need for national efforts to stop enabling haters (individuals and political parties) from optimizing their hunting of human ‘game,’ local and international. Continue reading →

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  • Related Web Site: <a href="https://marchforourlives.com/forces/" alt="The Five Forces Fueling Gun Violence - March For Our Lives">A New Framework for Ending Gun Violence</a>
  • Supporting Articles: <a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/sunday-excerpt-the-hidden-history" alt="Re-interpreting the Second Amendment">The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment</a>
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Caging Anti-democratic Forces Requires Eternal Vigilance

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Andy Hailey

Our democracy requires eternal vigilance and massive participation to keep the ever-present anti-democratic forces corralled. Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/08/dont-let-up-fascism-isnt-dead-yet/" target="_blank" title="Don’t Let Up: Fascism isn’t Dead Yet - CounterPunch.org">Don't Let Up: Fascism Isn't Dead Yet</a>
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Stopping The Authoritarian Nightmare – VOTE!

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Andy Hailey

INTRODUCTION John Dean’s newest book. Authoritarian Nightmare: Donald Trump and His Followers, details the threat of American authoritarianism. In addition, he recommends how America can stop the threat of dictatorial rule by highly prejudicial and authoritarian personalities. Forty years of … Continue reading →

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  • Supporting Video: <a href="https://freespeech.org/stories/authoritarian-nightmare-john-dean-helped-bring-down-nixon-over-watergate-he-says-trump-is-worse/" target="_blank" title="“Authoritarian Nightmare”: John Dean Helped Bring Down Nixon over Watergate. He Says Trump Is Worse - Free Speech TV" >John Dean Helped Bring Down Nixon over Watergate. He Says Trump Is Worse</a>
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Fascist Politics for Protecting and Empowering a Demagogue

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Andy Hailey

The distinct strategies of fascist politics include: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intellectualism, unreality, hierarchy, and victimhood. Other strategies also included are law and order, sexual anxiety, appealing to the heartland, and dismantling public welfare and unity. Below is summary of … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="https://medium.com/s/story/the-confusion-is-the-point-6ab1d5a933aa" target="_blank" title="Social platforms will not provide clarity">Confustion Is the Point</a>, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=tny&utm_social-type=owned" tarfox news has always been partisan. but has it become propaganda>The Making of the Fox News White House</a>
  • Supporting Video: <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/A new investigation into white supremacist groups in America – in particular, a neo-Nazi group, Atomwaffen Division, that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military>Documenting Hate: New American Nazis</a>
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Our Mass Murdering Domestic Terrorists and Their Enablers

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Andy Hailey

Who are these people using WMDs for mass murder in America? They are men who have been taught that there is a social heirarchy with God at the top. After God comes white, Christianist, males, then everyone else based on … Continue reading →

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Killing The RT Messenger to Void An Alternate Message

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Andy Hailey

“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression. For if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” — Revolutionary activist Thomas Paine “We will not walk in … Continue reading →

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A New Costly Cold War?

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Andy Hailey

Are profit-centric media and supporting profit-centric defense contractors promoting a new cold war, via Russian Hack hysteria, and boosting support for more defense spending? Are regime change neocons fanning the flames for a new cold war to remove Putin from … Continue reading →

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Bully’s and Fear Mongers Coerce President Obama

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Andy Hailey

How many wars are today’s neocons willing to promote for the sake of regime change that grows corporate profit? “The demonizing of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin appears to know no bounds, with the White House and The New York Times … Continue reading →

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The Danger of American Fascism – Then and Now

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Andy Hailey

Back in August 2006, I wrote a post called, “Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?” I think we are much closer to knowing our answer now and President Obama’s progressive inauguration speech provided a glimpse of the beginning of the end of this corporate threat to America. Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/seven-brides-seven-corporations-1359473961" title="The extreme's of corporate governance." target="_blank">Seven Brides for Seven Corporations</a>
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The Dakota Indians Lost to the ONE% in the 1860s – Can Today’s 99% Check and Balance Today’s ONE%?

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Andy Hailey

A recent episode of This American Life was about the Dakota War of 1862. This war resulted in the final expulsion of the Dakota Indians from their ancestral home in Minnesota. It took years of lies, trickery, swindles, war, and … Continue reading →

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