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Thursday, November 7, 2024

Key Quotes About Fascim For The Resistance Fighters Of America!

 
As we face the incredibly dangerous and uncertain future with the probability that TRAITOR Trump and the other TRAITORS who support him and his fascism, it is incumbent on all of us who understand that danger to do everything within our power to resist that fascism  and the immeasurably destructive potential outcomes which are sought by TRAITOR Trump and those other TRAITORS who support him. With all three branches of government in their hands, there is little that can be done to prevent that incredible potential damage to both America and American Democracy.  Political resistance is the only weapon we have which has been proven to be effective in such situations.   Patriotic and determined resistance groups have given us effective examples of how this resistance is accomplished.  Those groups in much of Western Europe during both World War II and World War I.  There are also excellent examples of effective resistance in countries  such as Turkey, Iran, Chile, and Syria.  Study those examples!  Emulate those examples!  Read recent books about political resistance!  Attend educational opportunities to learn about fascism and how to resist it!  Become an active resister!  It is the only effective option we have!
 
The quotations below are from several famous writers and politicians.  Study them and the brave souls who verbalized them and practiced political resistance on a daily basis in their lives.  The first five of those quotations were all used as part of my official e-mail signature from January 20, 2017, to January 20, 2021.  I will be using and posting them wherever it is appropriate in the coming four years.  So should you!  Learn what you can do as a political resister at this most dangerous time in America since the day Fort Sumter was fired on.  GOD HELP US ALL!       
 
“I have lived my life and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and poor—but against power, injustice, and oppression.”  Clarence Darrow  

“Why, this far into the twenty-first century, are we once again talking about Fascism?  One reason, frankly, is Donald Trump.  If we think of Fascism as a wound from the past that had almost healed, putting Trump in the White House was like ripping off the bandage and picking at the scab.”  Madeleine Albright, “Fascism A Warning”, p. 5-6.  
 

 

“Bigger misfits haven’t been seen inside a White House since William Taft got stuck in his bathtub.”  John McCain, “The Restless Wave”, p. 267
 
 

“I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who marched for justice; that creed reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battlefields to the surface of the moon; a creed at the core of every American whose story is not yet written: Yes We Can. Yes We Did.  Yes We Can.”  President Barack Obama

 “These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." Thomas Paine 
 
"Fascism is capitalism plus murder."  Upton Sinclair
 
"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such and intensity of intolerance toward  those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions, or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends."  Henry Wallace 
 
"There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that  he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind bars, and the man is outside." Upton Sinclair 
 
"Fascism is a lie told by bullies."  Ernest Hemingway

"But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him." Upton Sinclair   

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system." Noam Chomsky




Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Explanation Of A 30 Day Hiatus

Those of you who follow this blog and/or visit it regularly have probably noticed that this is the first blog post I have written and posted during the month of June 2021 which is not my usual modus operandi.  I usually post at least 4 or more new blog posts in every calendar month and rarely do less.  This has been my practice over the last several years and the number of the followers on the blog has steadily grown over the last couple of years from about 50 to nearly 200.  I appreciate the continued interest in what I have to say in my writing.  I attribute a large part of the recent growth in the number of followers to my use of Facebook Appalachian themed groups to promote this blog and specific blog posts.  For me, this has been the best part of being on Facebook other than the ability to maintain contact with numerous friends on the site, both old friends from as far back as 50 years ago, and new friends whom I have gained from being on Facebook.  When I say "New Friends" with regard to Facebook, I am referring to a small group of people whom I have come to know through the site on a meaningful personal level and not those who have sent me a Friend Request because something I posted there appealed to them.  But for me, over the last several months to a few years, Facebook has steadily become an ever growing irritant due primarily to the mercenary advertising practices they use, especially the fairly recent practice of selling undeleteable, unblock-able ads and posting those ads repetitively on my personal timeline.  I despise the practice and everything it connotes about Facebook and any company or agency which would stoop to attempting to force Facebook users to read their ads in order to see the content they actually came to the site to see.  So I took a 30 day hiatus from Facebook where some of you blog readers also have regular contact with me.  It has been a pleasant month since I have not had to read any unblock-able, undeleteable ads.  I haven't missed, posted on my timeline before I logged off on May 30, 2021, that I was going to take a month off, and I am certain that I will use Facebook far less in the future.  I have actively considered leaving the site completely and will still not rule out that possibility.  I put my time to good use this past month, submitted a collection of short stories to publishers, wrote some stories I needed to write, and also submitted several other unpublished stories to magazines, etc.  I also stayed in e-mail contact with most of the people who matter the most to me personally.  This was actually the second time I have taken a month off Facebook.  In October 2017, my wife Candice and I took a 28 day road trip in the Southwest through Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.  We even spent a few hours in Nogales Mexico.  And, not once did we use Facebook during that entire trip.  It was also a very pleasant month.  

As of right now, I will continue to use Facebook in a limited way to maintain contact with real, live friends and to promote this blog and new posts in particular.  But I will likely never again make a habit of being on Facebook for, at least a while, every day.  I will also use the same Facebook Appalachian groups for personal learning and promotion of the blog.  But I will continue to do one thing I had been doing for quite some time before I took this month off and will IMMEDIATELY log out of Facebook anytime an unblockable, undeleteable ad appears on my timeline or on any group I might be using at the time.  I will also never sign into my personal timeline and begin scrolling down it because anytime you do that the next thing you see will be an unblock-able, undeletable ad; and that is when I will also log out.  When I log out under those circumstances, I will not log on again until, at least, the next calendar day.  I suggest that all of you do the same.  Do not allow Facebook to force you to see ads you do not want to see.  Do not allow their corporate greed to make you tolerate more of their corporate greed.  What Facebook and their advertisers are doing with these ads in nothing more or less than the corporate based totalitarianism which writers like George Orwell and Noam Chomsky warned us about.  They are using their power to control you and your actions.  Don't allow them to do that anymore.  Read the quotation below from Noam Chomsky and you will understand exactly what I am talking about with Facebook and these unblockable, undeletable ads. 

“It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.”
― Noam Chomsky