Muscio. Wolfe. TFG.

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one’s ribs get re-broken again. Inga Muscio.

Fascism has elements in common with both liberalism and conservatism because they are all political forms of capitalism. It is because all three ideologies rationalize societies that allow wealth and power to be concentrated into the hands of few that antiradicalism becomes policy, that social control over the majority of the population is needed, that the economy remains in private hands, and that systemic modes of thinking are discredited. But there are differences. Conservatism is associated with a form of capitalism that no longer exists. Liberalism is associated with a state that developed in countries with a tradition of representative democracy. Fascism, then, is caused not because of the needs of monopoly capitalism, but because of the needs of monopoly capitalism in specific (antiliberal) traditions. Alan Wolfe, The Seamy Side of Democracy (Second Edition): Repression in America. 1978.

I actually took one when I — very recently, when I — when I was — the radical left were saying, is he all there? Is he all there? And I proved I was all there, because I got — I aced it. I aced the test. I took it at Walter Reed Medical Center in front of doctors. And they were very surprised. They said, that’s an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anybody do what you just did. The former guy on Cognitive Test; given the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), 2018.