Category Archives: Strict-father State

Nations run by a strict-father based party (political, army or dictatorship) tend to become intensely nationalistic, racist, militaristic and imperialistic. They are supported by the “masses” but not necessarily the majority of the national population.  Support for this state is enhanced by identifying an “enemy” and their “supporters”, labelling them with prejudicial adjectives and urging the “masses” to support violence against them.

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.

 

Wealth Transfer – America’s Growing Plutocracy

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Andy Hailey

While reading through a 1967 college text on Today’s ISMs by William Ebenstein, I came across this statement on wealth distribution in America as of 1953: … the top 3 per cent [sic] owned 33 per cent [sic] of all … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/" target="_blank" title="The last chapter focuses on the potential for serious challenges to class and corporate dominance.">Who Rules America</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.offthechartsblog.org/top-ten-tax-charts/" target="_blank" title="provide a big-picture look at the U.S. tax system">Top Ten Tax Charts</a>
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Fear Mongering Over Debt and Deficits – It’s Happened Before, Why Then, Why Now?

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Andy Hailey

Why are we, as a nation, no longer expressing concern about the employment deficit? Because the media and the politicians are all fear mongering about deficit spending, the national debt, and terminating state employees and/or their benefits to fix their … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-republican-strategy_b_825206.html"they hope to deflect attention from the increasing share of total income and wealth going to the richest 1 percent while the jobs and wages of everyone else languises>The Republican Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022002480.html" target="_blank" title="Washington is acting as if the only real problem the United States confronts is the budget deficit">The Tea Party is winning</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/what-conservatives-really_b_825504.html" target="_blank" title="Conservatives believe in individual responsibility alone, not social responsibility.">What Conservatives Really Want</a>, <a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/deficit-crisis-mongers-go-deep-end-1353168534" title="The real bottom line is whether the country will allow the deficit hawks to scare us into a deal that we would never make under normal circumstances. " target="_blank">The Deficit Crisis Mongers Go Off the Deep End</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/saving-planet-or-fixing-debt-1352562807" title="Imagine Japan attacked at Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 and our political leaders responded by debating the best way to deal with the deficits projected for 1960." target="_blank">Saving the Planet or Fixing the Debt</a>, <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12728-embrace-the-fiscal-cliff" title="... latest disinformation put out by people who agree with Grover Norquist that the real goal of politics should always and everywhere be to reduce taxes and shrink the size of government" target="_blank">Embrace the Fiscal Cliff</a>
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Social Dominance Authoritarians – Rule By Fearful Fantasies

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Andy Hailey

In 2006, John Dean wrote this about neoconservatives in his book Conservatives Without Conscience: Neoconservatives are a relatively small group of social dominance authoritarians, with significant, if not disproportionate, influence. Dean also stated that, “Neoconservatism first surfaced in the public … Continue reading →

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Violence Against Americans by Americans – Individual Action Is Only Part of the Story

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Andy Hailey

Individual actions result from the influences of many factors. This is referred to as “systemic causation.” Some factors are genetic but many are external: parents, spouses, siblings, other relatives, friends, scout leaders, religious leaders, teachers, bosses, books, movies, radio, TV, … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/2011/01/09/learn-how-propaganda-works-the-giffords-shooting/" target="_blank" title="Pay attention to the narratives as they unfold and consider the significance of the agendas they support">Learn How Propaganda Works: The Giffords Shooting</a>, <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/professor-receives-death-threats-after-glenn-beck-targets-her/" target="_blank" title="“Somebody tell Frances I have 5000 roundas ready">Professor Receives Death Threats After Glenn Beck Targets Her</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries" target="_blank" title=" Depicts a violent revolution in the United States which leads to the overthrow of the United States federal government and to a the extermination of all Jews and non-whites.">Timothy McVeigh referenced The Turner Diaries as a source for his planning of his 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.</a>
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The Hypothetical Left/Center/Right Scale – Has The Republican Party Become Extremist?

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Andy Hailey

In E. J. Dionne’s Where the ‘No Labels’ movement falls short, he states: The truth is that the American right is much farther from anything that can fairly be described as “the center” than is the left. [This is actually … Continue reading →

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Let The Mega and Ultra Rich Have Their Gift of Greed – They Have a New Way to Create Jobs

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Andy Hailey

Let the mega and ultra rich take their capital-gains-based, inherited-without-struggle wealth and create high-paying jobs. Here’s how. Thanks to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the mega and ultra rich now have a new untapped investment vehicle – the government. … Continue reading →

  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="http://wp.me/pegMB-179" target="_blank" title="There is an immense divergence in income growth for most of us, the bottom 90 percent, and the income growth of the mega, top 1 percent, and ultra, top 0.1 percent, rich">The Koch Brothers, enabled by Citizens United, Want to Buy Our Government – Will You Vote to Stop This?</a>
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The Tea Party – The “Masses” for American Authoritarianism

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Andy Hailey

In 2003, Laurence W. Britt, reviewed seven national regimes which followed the “fascist or protofascist model in obtaining, expanding, and maintaining power.” From his study, he developed fourteen basic characteristics or “common threads that link them in recognizable patterns of … Continue reading →

  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="http://wp.me/pegMB-1aR" target="_blank" title="They are happy to let Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin do their thinking for them.">Analysis of the Tea Party – Loyal Right-wing Authoritarian Followers</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1903/tea-party-movement-religion-social-issues-conservative-christian" target="_blank" title="Tea Party supporters agreed with the religious right by a roughly four-to-one margin">The Tea Party, Religion and Social Issues</a>
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Analysis of the Tea Party – Loyal Right-wing Authoritarian Followers

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Andy Hailey

Professor Robert Altemeyer of the University of Manitoba collaborated with John Dean on Dean’s book Conservatives Without Conscience (CWC), which I have referenced often. Professor Altemeyer has also written an on-line book about

  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="http://wp.me/pegMB-1b4" target="_blank" title="Members of the Tea Party are the red-white-and-blue shirts who are leading the way to a fascist America.">The Tea Party – The “Masses” for American Fascism</a>
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The Koch Brothers, enabled by Citizens United, Want to Buy Our Government – Will You Vote to Stop This?

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Andy Hailey

As written about earlier, there is an immense divergence in income growth for most of us, the bottom 90 percent, and the income growth of the mega, top 1 percent, and ultra, top 0.1 percent, rich. This point is made … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book.htm" target="_blank" title="Social change in the United States during the twentieth century">THE FIRST MEASURED CENTURY: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900–2000</a>, <a href="http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/recession_cause.htm" target="_blank" title="A basic understanding for what caused The Great Recession.">How Reagan Sowed the Seeds of America's Demise</a>, <a href="http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/" target="_blank" title="The most comprehensive independent analysis of the U.S. labor market">The State of Working America 2008/2009</a>, <a href="http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html" target="_blank" title="Wealth is equally divergent between the bottom 99 and the top 1 percent">Wealth, Income, and Power</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3309&emailView=1" target="_blank" title="Top 1 percent held a larger share of income in 2007 than at any time since 1928">Recent Gains of Bottom 90 Percent Wiped Out</a>, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer" target="_blank" title="The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight of industry." >COVERT OPERATIONS</a>
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Bad Deeds for 9-16-2010

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Jim Vogas

  Republicans Have Been Lying About the Deficit – The Treasury says that the deficit for August of this year is 13% lower than that of the August of last year, and 8% lower than the first 11 months of … Continue reading →

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