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Below I extract the key points. (The author has given me permission to use as much of the article as needed to summarize his thesis)
Prelude: Oligarchs conspire to initiate fascism:
“At the same time, the industrial leaders sensed new fortunes to be made in an arms race and the military leaders were either already signed up party apostles, like Hermann Goering, the creator of the new air force, or “ supine like the heads of the army and navy.
Four things prepared the ground for this capitulation.”
Kochs and Mercers and Murdochs, oh my!
1) “The first was a disdain for elites of any kind, stirred up deliberately to encourage a sense of grievance in the masses of people who had suffered in the economic collapse of the 1920s and who viewed the flagrant decadence of Weimar Berlin as evidence of an urban elite (often portrayed as heavily influenced by Jews) that held too much sway.”
No DACA! Build the wall! Loch her up! Drain the swamp!
2) ” The second was an understanding of the importance of a well-orchestrated propaganda machine. In the person of Joseph Goebbels Hitler discovered one of the great geniuses of modern political propaganda and, gaining control immediately of the national radio network, Goebbels infused the most pervasive new arm of the national media with the Nazi narrative of national rebirth under Hitler’s guiding vision of the Fatherland.
FoxNews! InfoWars! Rush Limbaugh! Cambridge Analytica! Wikileaks!
3) The third was putting into place all the apparatus of a police state in which the tasks of surveillance, intelligence and punishment were divided between the Gestapo and the state security service, the Reichsfuhrer-SS.”
ICE! Pompeo! Haspel! Sessions! Neilson!
4) All this prepared the ground for the fourth and final step that would enforce total and unquestioning loyalty to the Fatherland: war.
North Korea! Iran! ISIS! “Terrorism”!
”Those four stages in the death of German democracy do not have any exact modern equal, either in the degree of their fanaticism or in the scale of the final catastrophe they produced, but there are elements that should be disturbingly familiar to us as precursors.”
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