Fascism Roots-Viva Italia!
Seems Italy electing a so called Fascist leader has MSM in a tizzy. We will get to that in a bit.
The Bad Cat makes the point that Fascist roots were a leftist construct
I tend to agree that Fascisms origins (National Socialism) were leftist and not right, at least back in the day when the left and right were more distinguishable in that regard
It was basically a move away from a goal of Global Communism (in the interim the State Communism of Stalin) with State Capitalism to National Socialism with State Controlled Capitalism (Mussolini called it Corporatism-Public Private Partnerships with him in the drivers seat). Both were equally Authoritarian.
Today we see the move toward WEF’s Global Communism with Corporate Controlled States (Global Public Private Partnerships) . Technically this is Global Fascism because Communism and Private Capital are incompatible. Maybe at the bottom they envision Communism for the serfs (you will own nothing and eat bugs).
The right, lets call them Conservatives, used to be for small government, anti-war (at least against war in foreign countries that posed little threat to us at home), honest money, Christian values, loyal to the community (good neighbors) and pro-business of the Made in USA variety (not this Global Free Trade crap where we make nothing but dollars, movies , copyrights and food).
That right got demolished by WWII and infiltrated by Nazi supporting Fascists who cloaked their Fascism with the banner of Anti-Communism much like the Eugenicists did with Planned Parenthood, Population growth and Genetics.
Eventually it was infiltrated by another split in the left, when the Trotskyite left broke away in the late 60’s from the Frankfurt School led by Herbert Marcuse who was basically a Father of Todays Woke Movement. and they eventually took over the Republican Right in the 80’s , otherwise known as Neoconservatism. More recently, Populism and the Cult of Personality and lip service to Nationalism are another manifestation of Fascism on the so called Right.
Today there is no more right, at least not as it used to be known which was really just your basic down to earth Conservatism that your Granddaddy might have embraced. Thats gone. Poof.
The neocons were Trojan Horses for the Trotskyite Left who embraced neoliberal economics which led to extensive use of public private partnerships (what Mussolini called Corporatism, aka Fascism) and faux Laissez-faire economics (it was anything but) . This was embraced by both the so called left and right.
Now both sides love big government, corporate socialism, neoliberalism, militarism, public private partnerships, etc and both sides are willing to take away your rights either to fight terrorism or viruses or both.
In other words, today you have a choice between Fascism of the so called Left or Fascism of the Right.
Coke or Pepsi, your choice.
The Right is trying to remake itself with Popularism and an America First MAGA approach, but they are just Trojan Horses for the neocons ( Trotskyite left). Italy is trying the same.
The Rights version is more Nationalistic and less Woke with Militarism as its main religion, and the Left is Globalist, Woke and with a Green Gaia Religion (aka Scientism) , but both are Fascism nonetheless and big on Public Private Partnerships which put WEF Corporations in the drivers seat .
The Elites back both versions of Fascism using the Hegelian Dialectic process to engineer the Global Technocratic Transhumanist Utopia
While the little people fight among themselves on the 2D chessboard, unaware of any opponent not on the left-right spectrum, the Elites are watching from above and playing 3D chess which involves manipulating the 2D chessboard to eliminate all the Pawns in the game and replace us with AI , Robots and genetically modified humans with shorter lifespans and much smaller size who will eat bugs, obey without question and not consume too much.
I am not following whats going on in Italy too much. Maybe Giorgia Meloni is their savior. Alas, I am too cynical to believe this is the case. A quick look at Wikipedia
Giorgia Meloni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒordʒa meˈloːni]; born 15 January 1977) is an Italian politician and journalist. A member of the Chamber of Deputies in Italy since 2006, she has led the Brothers of Italy (FdI) political party since 2014, and has been the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party since 2020.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia_Meloni
Brothers of Italy emerged from a right-wing split within Silvio Berlusconi's party, The People of Freedom (PdL), in December 2012.[18] The bulk of the party leadership (including Meloni), as well as the symbol of the movement (the tricolour flame),[19] comes from the National Alliance (AN, 1995–2009) party, which had merged into PdL in 2009.[20] AN was the heir to the Italian Social Movement (MSI, 1945–1995), a neo-fascist party founded by former members of the banned National Fascist Party (1921–1943) and the Republican Fascist Party (1943–1945)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Italy
. A supporter of NATO, she maintains Eurosceptic views regarding the European Unionand was in favour of better relations with Russia before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which she condemned, pledging to keep sending arms to Ukraine. She has expressed controversial views, such as praising Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1996 and Nazi collaborator and co-founder of MSI Giorgio Almirante in 2020.
Since February 2021, Meloni has been a member of the Aspen Institute,[43][44] an international think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., which includes many financiers, businessmen, and politicians.[
On foreign issues, Meloni voted in favour of the 2011 military intervention in Libya; in 2019, she criticized the French rationale for the intervention, claiming it was because of Muammar Gaddafi's opposition to the CFA franc.[119][120]
Sadly, I think she is just another Trojan horse like Trump. Time will tell.
At least she got it right on vaccines and COVID
Meloni has been criticized due to her statements on vaccines and COVID-19, such as not vaccinating her daughter,[114][115][116] and claiming the probability of someone aged 0–19 dying from COVID-19 to be the same as being struck by lightning.