The coming election will show whether the mass of voters in the U.S. support democracy or fascism.
, and argue for white Christian nationalism and policies that endorse voter suppression and the banning of books, among other repressive measures. All of these positions should be understood as toxic elements of a rhetoric fueling the neo-fascism embraced by most of the Republican Party — a rhetoric of historical erasure, hate, bigotry and a politics of disposability. Fascism in the United States is no longer a spiraling improbability.
As critical democratic agencies come under attack, modes of critical agency disappear in the fog of political infantilism, paving the way for the public’s belief in the rhetoric of racial purity, religious fundamentalism, an ecosystem of lies, a withdrawal from the language of social responsibility, an obsession with crime and punishment, and the identification of adversaries as enemies of the state.
The lust for power by corrupt politicians, major corporations and the financial elite draws directly from the playbook of fascist politics. Umberto Eco in his 1995 essay “Ur-Fascism,” published in the, was right in claiming that fascist politics takes many forms, reminding us that the following elements often come draped in the symbols and traditions of the societies that embrace them.
Neoliberalism has created a society of monsters for whom pain and suffering are now viewed as entertainment, warfare is seen as a permanent state of existence, racism is accepted as an organizing principle of society and militarism is centered as the most powerful force shaping masculinity. Politics has taken an exit from ethics and thus the issue of social costs is divorced from any form of intervention in the world. These are the ideological metrics of political zombies.
The culture apparatuses controlled by the 1 percent are the most powerful educational forces in society and they have become disimagination machines — apparatuses of misrecognition, stupidity and cruelty. Collective agency is now atomized, devoid of any viable embrace of the social.
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