Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said policy differences toward Israel between her and President Biden won’t stop her from supporting him in the November general election.
“Of course,” Omar said Tuesday, when asked by CNN’s Abby Phillip on “NewsNight” whether she would vote for Biden if the election were held that day, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “Democracy is on the line, we are facing down fascism.”
“And I personally know what my life felt like having Trump as the president of this country, and I know what it felt like for my constituents, and for people around this country and around the world,” Omar continued. “We have to do everything that we can to make sure that does not happen to our country again.”
that’s not what pacifism is.
Okay, what would you say the difference is?
passivism is a policy of never attacking. I’m not advocating for that. I’m saying the US is fascist and it’s military adventurism in the Middle East was not justified. in fact it was our military venturism in the Middle East that caused the 9/11 attack. The response should not have been to attack, it should have been to fix the problems, at least some of which included our bloated military and our abusive financial system. instead we inflated the military more and made the financial system even more abusive and incorporated it into a surveillance state.
I agree that the underlying problem of the military-industrial complex was a causative element. But the previous war to that, of defending Kuwait in Desert Storm, was a defensive war. That was a UN force composed of dozens of countries, hosted by Saudi Arabia, not simple adventurism. The Kuwaitis asked for help.
kuwait isn’t what caused 9/11
it was our abandoning of the mujahideen.
They won though, they defeated the Soviets and kicked them out. With some of our help. Why attack us for that?
russia left, but not before we abandoned them.
it was an overt betrayal.
that doesn’t make the us any less fascist, it only means that they did something that also benefited other countries. it also bolstered their own military profile, which certainly serves to preserve the power of the state.
I don’t disagree that it strengthened the state, and the MIC. I just disagree that there’s somehow no distinction between these things and fascism. Not all states using their militaries are automatically fascist or something, it takes more than that.
a modern nation state with a mechanized military is absolutely indistinguishable from fascism.
they will do whatever it takes to maintain the power of the state to field that military, so they will do whatever it takes to maintain the power of the state. everything else, the trappings of law and order, the facade of democratic control, the illusion of economic freedom, they will only exist so far as they are necessary to maintain state power.
under pax americana, our mutual defense treaties have relieved many states of the necessity of fielding their own military to the extent necessary to defend their state, but the mutual defense treaties make them absolutely complicit in the fascism of the states capable of defending them. in particular, the usa, but any other military power as well.
opposing the creep of outspoken politically fascist movements to seize the reigns of these technocratically fascist states is secondary, in my consideration, to the dismantling of the technocratic fascist states.
it seems that you are content to tolerate the fascist state so long as someone you can’t identify as politically fascist controls it. i am not.
Still seems like a poor excuse to attack, after we helped. I could see being angry about being abandoned, but attacking is a strong measure.
I see. Personally, I prefer the older, textbook understanding from back in the 20th century. That’s fascism. What you describe would need another word.
So long as we maintain civilian control of governance, aren’t erasing our domestic out-groups, aren’t subjugating our individuals and removing the possibility of social mobility, etc, we’re a distinct thing imo.
We do flirt with these things, for the record, but an actual fascist regime taking over in the US would be a terror the planet has never seen before. We’d win where Hitler failed, mainly because of the nukes, and a likely alliance with Russia.
>>aren’t subjugating our individuals and removing the possibility of social mobility,
this absolutely happened under biden’s crime bill and patriot act, and now he’s in the presidency.
>So long as we maintain civilian control of governance
we don’t have that. the pentagon flat out lied to trump about carrying out his orders.
> aren’t erasing our domestic out-groups, aren’t subjugating our individuals and removing the possibility of social mobility, etc, we’re a distinct thing imo.
mussolini never proposed these be part of fascism. only the primacy of the state.