cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/65164
In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…
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Has the US forgotten already that Hitler looked at the US race laws with admiration in Mein Kampf?
This isn’t new. This cancer has never been excised, just bandaged over because it became inconvenient to capitalist interests at the time.
As far as I can see, this shift back towards fascism in the US is the response to the rise of China as an economic and military power.
Some of this rise is attributable to the decline of favour of fossil fuels, and China’s position as market leader in solar and wind generation technology. This is why Trump has a hate for renewable energy, and such a throbbing micro-peen for oil. The US is being left behind, fast.
Forgotten? Most schools here probably don’t even teach that. I would bet that most Americans are not at all aware of this fact.
Many Americans probably think they liberated the entirety of Europe during WW2 with a little help from the British and Canadians.