When liberal capitalist societies fail, nations turn to glory, nobility and war to legitimate the system
How conservatism turns to fascism
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Trump to Johnson, nationalists are on the rise, backed by billionaire oligarchs
In the 1980s, Trump
was already famous as a billionaire who articulated the philosophy of look
out for your own profit and don’t care how much you hurt anyone else in the
process. However, no one would imagine he would eventually become
president. Long before he entered politics, Trump called anyone who challenged him a loser. With that
vocabulary, he perpetuated the idea that victims are weak and lazy and don’t
have the stuff to prevail. They deserve their fate and must submit to the
triumphant. As a landlord, Trump brutally intimidated his tenants - cutting heat and hot water, refusing to maintain and repair his buildings,
which sometimes became rat infested - in the hope of driving them out of rent-controlled apartments that he planned
to convert into condominiums.
Trump’s presidency has
been treated as a fluke, but it actually represents a very old ideology of
capitalism. When Trump became president, the media and liberals became
nostalgic for Reagan, saying that Reagan would never do what Trump was doing.
In reality, Trump was Reagan’s heir. Reagan appointed Alan Greenspan as
Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Greenspan’s five terms as Chairman included
two reappointments by Bill Clinton, which suggests his paradigm was accepted by
some Democrats.... read more:
https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/how-conservatism-turns-to-fascism-when-liberal-capitalist-societies-fail-nations-turn-to-glory-nobility-and-war-to-legitimate-the-system/see also
Trump to Johnson, nationalists are on the rise, backed by billionaire oligarchs