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Neo-Fascism is Alive and Well in The U.S.A. Kelson Maynard

  According to the Trump administration, imperiling the lives of African descendant people, other peoples of color, trans and queer people, gay and lesbian people, feminists, and migrant communities of color, will make the United States of America great.   What psycho-social phantasm folly?   If fascism is defined as a far-right authoritarian political ideology and praxis characterized by ultra-nationalism, dictatorial power, the suppression of dissent, under the political leadership of the Donald Trump administration, the United States of America has become a site of danger, tyranny, and new form of fascism for the above-mentioned peoples.   The rationale given for this new form of fascism is that these groups and communities pose a dangerous threat to United States of America Christian civilization.   They are responsible for whatever is wrong in this society.   Thus, they must be criminalized, erased, excluded, eliminated.   They must be deprived ...

A Stricken and Decadent Civilization. Kelson Maynard (edited version)

  A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization. A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization Aime Cesaire Inequality, partisan polarization, and people’s public skepticism about the functioning of the fundamental institutions of society are major factors in the social decay and loss of faith in democracy.   To rescue a society so stricken, without seriously questioning and examining the   economic and political system that is the source of the problem, some elected leaders seek to gradually or sometimes abruptly dismantle the system, to aggrandize their executive powers to correct the social malaise. These leaders begin to harass the press into not critiquing the government. They seek to reduce the independence of the judiciary.   They defy legislative oversigh...