The Capitol Riot was this generations Reichstag and its being used by the cathedral in the exact same way. If you have to ask how German citizens could allow the rise of fascism, look to your fellow citizens asking, even demanding, the government take more power.
Simply bringing this to your attention could get me labeled an extremist. It seems like such a wild stretch to compare the two, doesn’t it? After all, we all know from four years of the corporate press telling us, that the MAGA crowd is a bunch of white-supremacist, Neo-Nazi fascists. So this current incarnation is the complete opposite and therefore, good. So please government, step in and crush the resistance. Label them traitors, insurrectionists, extremists.
After the Reichstag fire, the German President issued the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State. This decree gave the government, with Hitler as Chancellor, emergency powers to disregard civil liberties, imprison opponents of the Nazi Party, and suppress publications. The enemies started off as communists, the ones who purportedly started the fire. They were enemies of the state, which was fitting and easy since they were already seen as a menace and a threat within the society. This galvanized the German citizens, who quickly supported moves by the Nazi Party to suppress dissent and imprison enemies of the state. Losing a few civil liberties temporarily was certainly worth it to save the nation from an imminent threat.
After eliminating the initial threat, their political opponents were targeted. It wasn’t long before the Nazi’s consolidated the government into one-party rule. I’m sure from there you know the rest of this story.
Of course the rioters at the Capitol were targeted, arrested, and put on No-fly lists. They committed crimes, and should be tried and punished for them, under laws that already exist. That should be the end of that in a country that purports to follow the Rule of Law. But never let a crisis go to waste, which means we need to create more enemies than just the motley crew of LARP-ing MAGA fans. Anyone who supports Trump and dares question the legitimacy of an election should be an extremist. Never mind that almost all of them are simply wanting legitimate investigations to be conducted. That should be an easy sell. If there is no widespread voter fraud, do some investigations, allow people to discuss it and come to their own conclusions based on the evidence. Isn’t that what we did for three years of Russiagate?
That’s when they move on to suppressing publications. Twitter, YouTube, Amazon, and Facebook have already been censoring people for years with little pushback because, after all, they’re private companies. Private companies who have a great deal to gain from taking out competitors and have been working with the government, some of them getting $600 million deals with the CIA. But sure, they’re privately owned. Privately owned and government controlled, which is what actual fascism looks like.
Since there is little actual difference between the Republican and Democratic parties, there is an almost de facto one-party rule. This situation is allowing them to come even closer of course, as many Republicans are jumping on board with the party that controls the House, Senate, and White House. The GOP is fracturing, and that is a great thing. But as this happens, the Democrats are losing control of their followers. Antifa, who’s tactics are straight out of the Brown Shirt handbook, are just as pissed at the government as the MAGA crowd.
As much as I don’t like a single thing Antifa stands for, I sure am glad that there are people on the extremes willing to fight against the oppression so many of us have seen for awhile, and that so many more are waking up to. You see, it’s the extremists fighting against the concentration of power at the center that is the greatest safeguard to our freedoms. Which is exactly why the cathedral is lashing out against any ideology that is too far away from center, too far away from their control.
The cathedral wants us to overreact and become the violent monsters they wish we were. But we see them for the blood-soaked parasites that they are. Like all great Empires that collapse under their own weight, they too will surely fall as they continually overreact and hemorrhage supporters. To paraphrase Murray Rothbard in Anatomy of the State, to maintain their power, they must have support, either actively or through passive resignation. To defeat them, we don’t need the barrel of a gun and we don’t need unity in their perverse sense of the word. We need to unite as free people, allowing each other to take our own paths in life. That is how this Empire will fall, not with a bang but a whimper.