Wisconsin: 78 Years Later, Nazi-Wall Street Alliance Wins

FAR TOO FEW of us realize the Republican victory in Wisconsin heralds a  blitzkrieg that will undeniably overwhelm us in November. 

Fewer still understand the Wisconsin debacle portends the ultimate triumph of fascism the One Percent has sought since Wall Street and Berlin collaborated in the 1934 Bankers Plot (for which Google) -- a nearly successful scheme to turn the United States into the fourth member of the old Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis.

But once we acknowledge the new paradigm of U.S. governance demonstrated by the Republicans in Wisconsin – absolute power and unlimited profit for the One Percent, total subjugation and genocidal poverty for all the rest of us – we're also able to recognize the unspeakably treacherous role of the Democrats as the deliberate facilitators of Republican victory.

That's the only possible strategy underlying Obama the Orator's self-transformation into Barack the Betrayer.

It's also the only possible purpose behind the Democrats' (deliberate) loss of the Wisconsin recall – see "True Wisconsin: How and Why the Democrats (Deliberately) Lost." 

Likewise note the landslide losses the Democrats suffered in the 2010 Congressional election, the direct result of an embittered electorate awakening to the ugly truth "change we can believe in" was a Big Lie from the beginning. 

And all this makes perfect sense when we recognize the bitter truth We the People have been totally disenfranchised – that, exactly as Bill Moyers says – U.S. "democracy" has become nothing more than a charade.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the two parties collaborate to impose the tyrannical will of the global One Percent: note the unanimous or nearly unanimous Congressional votes that have downsized our paychecks and abolished our constitutional rights: GATT, NAFTA, Patriot Act, NDAA, etc. ad nauseum. So descends the newest darkness of fascism, guarded and expanded by the United States and its imperial military machine – complete with Nazi-style helmets that subtly proclaim the dread reality of a de facto Fourth Reich.

Be very afraid. The forthcoming fascist victory in the November elections means those of us who are no longer exploitable for profit – seniors, disabled people, others who are chronically impoverished – will be targeted by a "final solution" of deliberate genocide. Not in death camps – that would be too internationally embarrassing – but by termination of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, unemployment compensation and any other life-sustaining socioeconomic program.

Exactly as some Teabaggers already publicly acknowledge, that's the real purpose – extermination of those of us adjudged to be burdensome – behind the definitively murderous Paul Ryan Budget: the maliciously forcible redistribution of wealth President-to-Be Romney has already enthusiastically endorsed.

(An earlier version of this essay was published in the comment thread generated by “Snap out of it Obama,” in Crosscut, Seattle's excellent on-line daily.)

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Weaponized Rape: Another Preview of Post-Wisconsin Realpolitik 

NAOMI WOLF'S REVIEW of a documentary film entitled The Invisible War, a daring exposé of the “systemic rape of women in the (U.S.) military and the retaliations and coverups” by which the victims are then repeatedly savaged, is more of the superbly informative prose we have come to expect from this notably courageous Guardian headliner.

 

But the review nevertheless suffers from Ms. Wolf's obvious unfamiliarity with the military itself.

As a Regular Army veteran (six-year enlistment 1959-1965, three years active duty including extended service in Korea, three years reserve, honorably discharged), I know the military does nothing by accident – that its collective behavior is always purposefully commanded. I also know enough history to recognize chain-of-command purposefulness is especially characteristic of the military of a fascist empire. The classic example is how the Axis – particularly the Nazi Germans – used the Spanish Civil War to kill-harden their soldiers in preparation for the atrocities Hitler would soon unleash against other Europeans, particularly the citizens of the Soviet Union.

Thus the U.S. military high command's outrageous tolerance of rape proves these attacks are not only tacitly encouraged but are in fact purposeful expressions of some dire agenda of malevolence that, at present, remains hidden.

In this context it is useful to contrast the U.S. military's response to males who rape their fellow service personnel with what was done to the (very few) such rapists in the Red Army, where women served on the front lines both during the Russian Civil War (1918-1923) and during the Great Patriotic War Against Fascism (what we call World War II).

The U.S. rapists are, as Ms. Wolf notes, outrageously protected, even pampered. But in the Red Army and other Soviet forces – where women were among the best most daring combat pilots (Google "Night Witches") and among the deadliest snipers in military history (Google Lyudmila Pavlichenko) – such rapists were properly recognized as soldiers who had turned against their comrades and were summarily shot as traitors.

While the Soviet response is belittled by misogynists as a “wartime measure,” the fact remains the pandemic of rape in the U.S. armed forces is itself occurring in a time of war. Hence the U.S. rapists are as much enemy combatants as any (other) terrorist.

Why then are these rapists not prosecuted accordingly?

Given that sexual assault is a hate crime – an expression of the infinite contempt with which patriarchal males regard anyone they adjudge to be weaker, given too that such violent hatred for the powerless is the defining characteristic of a conqueror – it is obvious the high command by its tolerance of rape is training its male soldiers in the brutal and sadistic techniques by which conquered populations are traditionally subdued.

Women in the military – despised as they are by the males the fanatically Christian-fundamentalist commanders have methodically proselytized to maximum misogyny – have thus been made surrogates for more broadly defined “enemy” populations. 

Viewed in the context of present-day U.S. politics, the eventual intended target is obviously the U.S. civilian population, especially the Left, a preponderance of which is not only female but avowedly feminist -- intolerable to the JesuNazi zealotry that is increasingly the Moron Nation state religion.

     

(An earlier version of this essay appeared on the comment thread of Wolf's “Rape in the Military a Culture of Coverup,” Guardian via Reader Supported News.)

LB/17 June 2012

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