In the 1950's & 60's as a political force this ideology was able to impose litmus tests for national office. If you didn't agree with their foreign policy, you were not electable. If you didn't agree with their base for domestic policy you fared no better. The political leaders were mostly Republican.
Today in our post 9/11 world coming through "the great recession" America is yet again both primed and vulnerable. The political leaders are Republican and Democrats.
In surveys done in 2014 the same 53% of the population that supports torture also supports police killing unarmed, non threatening civilians.
This same 53% supports every war and marginalizes segments of American society like blacks and Muslims. They support Guantanamo even as those proven innocent are tortured there.
Another 14-15% of the population can be counted additionally on an issue by issue or party line support.
More than 65% of Americans are now fine with droning Americans overseas that are suspected and not tried, convicted, or proven to be terrorists. Its no wonder 60% of Americans don't trust the very same government.
It is a fact that every major foreign policy move has its domestic equivalent at home. The cold war radically moved the country to the right and changed the fabric of the people. The post 9/11 wars brought us Edward Snowden's "peeping gov," the humiliation of "groping at airports," the constant insistence to see what your neighbor was up to.
It developed a culture where it is godly to bomb Muslim cultures and kill their children or change their government and replace it with ultra-nationalists instead. Look at the history of the Muslim Brotherhood and its ABN connections.
Across the political platforms of Al Qaeda, IGIL, and across what we call Islamic terrorist groups we find the Islamist form of ultra-nationalism unleashed. According to John Reilly at a conference given of esoteric fascism " I don't want to dwell on Islamicist ideology; I don't know that much about it. Still, we should note that recent Islamicist terrorists quote Evola with facility .
Julius Evola was a 1930's Fascist thinker and philosopher . His writings outlined the political side of ultra-nationalist ideology but more importantly added the "emotional charge" by developing nationalism into a mystical aspect of religions. This makes the host religion not only compatible to fascism or ultra-nationalism but transforms the political aspect into holy thought. It provides the basis of followers with no regard for themselves.
They live and die for the state(statism) regardless of the host religion. Killing the enemy is a sacrament and an enemy is always needed. Its no wonder the Greek Catholic OUNb-ABN-UCCA helped develop Al Qaeda in Afghanistan through UNA-UNSO, a militant subgroup present in Ukraine today. They follow the same mystical thought and political slant unquestionably.
The Muslims across the world were never a problem. Muslims are a just people.
Has America grown so stunted that the next strong leader that stands up (Republican or Democrat) doesn't need to promise to do anything domestically to improve the country? Like Iraq, can the next president count on getting approval from the 53%+ with another Shock and Awe bombing campaign victory? It doesn't fix anything, but damn a little victory makes you feel good.
When succeeding generations are brought up inside nationalist sectarian lines( Republican and Democrat [neo-con, neo-liberal]), religious(Christian Evangelical radicalism), or the unabated corporatist predator- the room for critical thought diminishes. Inside this no one of the above listed groups can comprehend that they live in a democratic society or that they have successfully stripped Constitutional and legal protections from themselves as well as everyone else.
Add all this up and it equals Washington's support for Ukraine's government that is committing crimes against humanity on American money, with American equipment, and American training. Congress is voting almost unanimously to fund and send heavy weapons into the conflict without ever looking at the real facts on the ground in Donbass.
America and its government is starting to show all the political and cultural savvy of a 4 year old, only there aren't many grownups in the room to make things right.
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