COMMENTS POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY YOUSSEF EL-GINGIHY IN THE
INDEPENDENT
"The age of Trump
and 21st century fascism”
No analysis. No facts. No information offered.
Just one more commissioned dump of propaganda.
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Response to another
reader’s comment:
How right you are.
It's remarkable how many people cannot distinguish between
elections and fascism.
How many news sources.
How many article-writer hacks.
The entire unthinking claim about fascism has reached
lunatic proportions.
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Response to another
reader’s comment:
Of course, we are not in a situation of fascism.
But you are wrong in using the expression, "a very
nasty and dangerous authoritarian right-wing populist revolt."
It just ain't so.
We have a revolt against an establishment which has abused
its position for decades.
As in Syria. As in Libya. As in Iraq. As in Yemen. As in
Ukraine. As with all kinds of secret projects and universal spying. As with
politics run solely by money. As with an establishment serving only its own
interests, ever. As with the endless lies about all these matters and more.
Government in America, and I believe in Britain, has stopped
serving those who vote and pay taxes. It manipulates them and treats them as a
herd unfit to be trusted.
An awful lot of people today understand these fundamental
truths or at least some fraction of them.
They are voting against them, just as they should.
What we had under Obama - and what was threatened even to a
greater degree by Clinton - was exactly what resembled fascism in many of its
worst qualities. Fascism with a benign face, so to speak.
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Response to another
reader’s comment saying he didn’t understand how anyone on the left could vote
for Le Pen:
No, you don't get it.
But many do. I am a good old-fashioned liberal spirit, and I
understand it perfectly.
When you elect a leader, you always, always get a bundle of
policies.
And always, always some of these will be unacceptable to a
great many people.
You must pick what is most important to you, knowing you
will get some things you do not like.
Remember, the old saying, a wise one, you must pick your
battles?
You cannot fight them all, and certainly cannot win them
all.
The definitions of many of the old-line parties are as
obsolete as Commodore 64 computers.
That really is what the American election was about, and it
is what the French election will be about.
Moreover, the terrible policies of recent governments - such
as Obama’s in America and all other Western governments supporting him such as
Hollande’s or Cameron’s or Merkel’s - have driven national and international
affairs to new extremes and new divisions and to ugly new problems.
Good God, France has endured the most horribly-failed President
in its modern history with Hollande. He failed everywhere. He pleased no one.
He has no principles. He achieved absolutely nothing but impoverishing his
country.
You might enjoy:
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Response to another
reader’s comment:
Yours are ignorant words indeed.
Calling people "scum" is exactly what Joseph
Goebbels and his master did all the time. Mussolini too.
I almost cannot believe how many people today, such as
yourself, feel free to call others ugly names and believe they are being
self-righteous in doing so.
