Category Archives: Powerful Nationalism

Are national symbols around every corner on the street and all over the media? Is our national flag and or its representation becoming more visible in our daily lives? Are laws being passed to protect national symbols? Do these laws violate the Constitution? What other national symbols have you seen lately and is their appearance more frequent? When will we be required to carry a national ID? When will we be required to wear a national symbol or carry a bible to show our allegiance? 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.

 

Preserving Our Democracy – Allegiance To a Nation OR Serving a More Perfect Union

Posted on August 7, 2022 by Andy Hailey

On the one hand, patriotism divides citizens into multiple factions based on variable notions of a nation and its history. On the other, a citizenship oath could more effectively unify voting citizens with all the others in our democratic election process to focus citizens on forming a more perfect union. Continue reading →

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Predatory Capitalism: Chaining It?, Embracing It?, Controlling it?, Saving it?, Replacing It!

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Andy Hailey

Any nation with either an authoritarian political system or an authoritarian economic system, like predatory capitalism, is susceptible to totalitarianism. Continue reading →

  • Supporting Video: <a href="https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_what_marx_marxism_offer_us_today". target="_blank" title="What Marx & Marxism Offer us Today">Workers Create Surplus for All</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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Imagine – Republicans Force a ‘Strike’ and Take The Entire Federal Government With Them?

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Andy Hailey

It appears to me, that even though the conservatives without conscience (CWCs) cannot support unions, especially public ones, they do support taking union type action – acting in unison as a group, like voting to strike. One difference between Congressional … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 8-13-2010

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Jim Vogas

  For Newt Gingrich, “Family Values” is Just a Phrase He Likes to Use – According to Newt’s second wife Marianne Gingrich: “He asked me to marry him way too early,” she revealed. “And he wasn’t divorced yet [from his … Continue reading →

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Things May Get More Expensive – If the CWCs Get Their Way

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Andy Hailey

In a recent conservative without conscience (CWC) email (You know one of those forwarded emails with mixed font and colors, false comparisons, and statements of problems that don’t exist.), there was a list of situations where one might be asked … Continue reading →

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Powerful Nationalism and the Right-wing Authoritarians

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Andy Hailey

One of the categories for this blog is Powerful Nationalism. In a recent Pew Research survey of 1,001 adults, some measures of this powerful nationalism were captured. These metrics confirm what has been posted previously in this blog and add … Continue reading →

  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=362" target="_blank" title="National behavior and abuse of power that enable fascist or protofascist single-party systems">Lawrence Britt’s 14 Common Threads – How Far Is Too Far?</a>
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Bad Deeds for 3/24/2010

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Jim Vogas

  Republican Representative Thinks You Should Not Have the Right to Vote for Your Senators – Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is calling for a strong re-assertion of state’s rights against Congress — in the form of a Constitutional amendment to … Continue reading →

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Richard Bruce – Could He Become America’s Hitler?

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Andy Hailey

If Bruce became President of the United States, what would become of America? Decide for yourself. Bruce on the use of torture for the enemy – “The seeds of Abu Ghraib’s rotten fruit were sown by civilians at the highest … Continue reading →

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From The Occupation of Iraq to The Occupation of the US – Is Our Police State Getting Closer?

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Andy Hailey

Don’t be surprised if there is something else to come that would give GWB an opportunity to do what he wants – declare marshall law, suspend the election and deploy the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team to keep us under control.

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  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.northcom.mil/about/index.html" target="_blank" title="About">U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)</a>, <a href="http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/" target="_blank" title="By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer, Sep 30, 2008">Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1</a>, <a href="http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=28317" target="_blank" title="By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service, Oct 15, 2003">Teamwork, Planning Behind NORTHCOM Stand-up</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act#Repeal_of_amendments" target="_blank" title="Set of laws that govern the President of the United States of America's ability to deploy troops within the United States.">Insurrection Act</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.times-standard.com/davestancliff/ci_10643629" target="_blank" title="By Dave Stancliff - As It Stands/For the Times-Standard, 10/5/08">America in Crisis: Are we preparing for martial law?</a>, <a href="http://www.infowars.com/?p=4803" target="_blank" title="Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Wednesday, September 24, 2008">U.S. Troops In Homeland “Crowd Control” Patrols From October 1st</a>, <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061017-9.html" target="_blank" title="in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authorities ... to supervise the unitary executive branch.">President's Unitary Executive Signing Statement on H.R. 5122, the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007"</a>, <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080128-10.html" target="_blank" title="The executive branch shall construe such provisions in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the President">Presidents Signing Statement for H.R. H.R. 4986, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008</a>, <a href="http://www.infowars.com/?p=5463" target="_blank" title="Al-Qaida then will succeed in exhausting America till its last year in it.">ACLU Files FOIA On Brigade Deployed in U.S.</a>
  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=334" target="_blank" title="THE END OF POSSE COMITATUS">The Authoritarian’s Army - Two Steps Closer To A Coup In America?</a>, <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=367" target="_blank" title="The President has a backup to maintain control - Blackwater USA.">The Authoritarian’s “Protective Squadron” - Blackwater USA?</a>
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