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HISTORICAL PRECURSORS TO A U.S. NEO-FASCIST STATE

“What’s Past is Prologue - Study the Past.” The puzzling words to the left are carved on the National Archives Building in Wash. DC.

We are in a desperate war to gain the hearts, minds, and souls, of the American people. Only by carefully studying the NFC Doctrines, and investigating their conduct when governing, can we hope to understand the actual intentions of the determined Neo-Fascist-Conservative enemies of Liberty. Thus, we have first to review the uniquely American historical precursors to the NFC movement, to discover its origins and the methods for fighting and defeating this fungus on the world body politic.

The recorded history of humanity is one of the common man’s struggle to survive under a succession of despotic individuals and Aristocratic ruling classes. These have included military, economic, and religious tyrants called; Emperors, Kings, Patricians, Senators, Pharaohs, Satyraps, Autocrators, Dictators, Popes, Premiers, CEOs, and Presidents.

Despotism is an Ancient Feature of All Authoritarian Societies:

This prompts me to go into some detail about the origins of law, and the ways in which it developed into our endless and complicated statute-list. …But when men ceased to be equal, egotism replaced fellow-feeling, and decency succumbed to violence. The result was despotism—in many countries permanently…We ourselves, when Romulus’ autocratic regime ended, were subjected by Numa to a religious code, to which Tullus Hostilius and Ancus Marcius introduced adjustments. But our outstanding maker of laws—binding even on Kings—was Servius Tullius. After Tarquin’s expulsion, the community took many measures against the ruling class in the interests of freedom and unity. A new Council of Ten, by incorporating the finest elements from all sources, drew up the Twelve Tables. That was the last equitable legislation.”
“Hence arose demagogues…”
Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Historian, The Annals of Imperial Rome, AD 55-117

The Historical Class Struggle

“The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.”
Harry S. Truman

What is Marxism?

Credit for excerpts drawn primarily from the Encyclopaedia Britannica are given here:

“Freeman and Slave, Patrician and Plebian, Lord and Serf, Guild-Master and Journeyman, in a word; Oppressor and Oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open, fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in common ruin of the contending classes”
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, 1848

Marxism is a body of social doctrine conceptualized by Karl Marx and his friend Friedrich Engels, and systematized later by some of his followers. It is a philosophy of history implemented by an elaborate economic theory. Marx had been concerned almost exclusively with a highly competitive kind of laissez faire capitalist system in which the entrepreneurs were in the main opposed to all state intervention. The decades after Marx’s death (1883) produced a kind of capitalism that was permeated with monopoly and in which the majority of businessmen desired state intervention only for the protection of their monopolies, their property rights, protective tariffs and for the opening of foreign markets and promotion of foreign investments. (And the exploitation of workers such as we have again experienced in the U.S. under the NFC Republicans)

Marxist philosophy purports to demonstrate the inevitability of Socialism, and eventually of full Communism; the latter to be understood as a “classless collectivist order” in which the social product is distributed according to needs and in which the state, law, money, and the concept of economic value have lost their functions and therefore have withered away. (A Utopian World)

Marx tended to believe that all important historical progress is achieved through an all out conflict between an old and new principles of social organization, and that consequently progress would be impeded if the tension between these two principles were prematurely reduced by limited reforms of the old system (such as American Liberal Democracy). Since true reform, which does not destroy the present system but gradually reforms it, is ruled out, revolution becomes necessary.

Marx stressed the obvious truth that social groups have conflicts of interest that are often reflected in antagonistic political creeds (Conservatism v Liberal Democracy) Marx saw each principal or social organization represented by a social class; feudalism by the nobility, capitalism by the entrepreneurs, socialism by the workers. Consequently the class struggle is governed by the laws of dialectics; (a form of philosophical argument involving opposites such as thesis and antithesis; elaborated by the Marx concept of Dialectic Materialism) and it is necessarily an all out conflict—it cannot be limited by the rules of democracy, which substitutes “ballots for bullets” and which requires respect for the inalienable rights of the opponent. The victory of the new class must be followed by repression of the former ruling class until the last vestiges of the old order are extinguished. In the struggle of the workers against the capitalists, this repression will result in the dictatorship of the proletariatas the political form of society in the period of transition from capitalism to full communism.

In actual practice, in the biggest Marxist experiment of all time; the Leninist/Stalinist Soviet State; There was no transition to Utopian Communism, and what was called Communism was in reality an Arch-Conservative Repressive Militarist Expansionist Internationalist Dictatorship. It was an empire run by tyrants, in which workers reverted back to the poverty, brutality, and oppression of feudalism.

“I became a Marxist thanks, so to speak…on account of the rigorous intolerance and Jesuitical discipline so cruelly crushing me in the Orthodox seminary, where I passed some years”
Josef Stalin, Christian Seminarian turned Revolutionary leader, 1926

The theory that; society can be divided into two classes, the oppressed and the oppressors, and that these two classes constantly have been struggling against each other, is based on factual observations over many centuries. In 1848, it became a key feature of the Communist Manifesto, written by Marx. The fact that it was true, was not diminished by the co-option of this theory by the Conservative Bolshevik Dictators who ran the Soviet Union.

Fascism is Fiercely Anti-Communist:

“…Our movement has recognized that the future of Germany means the destruction of Marxism. Either this racial poison, the mass tuberculosis, grows in our people, and Germany dies of an infected lung, or it is eliminated. We can never make a pact with this world-view; for us Germany will be saved on the day on which the last Marxist has either been converted or has been broken.”
Adolf Hitler, February 26, 1924

In fact, Marx borrowed the theory of class struggle, which had been expressed as early as 1780, by Gaetano Filangieri, a Neapolitan nobleman and social scientist. The theory was also expressed in the writings of Helvetius, Marat, Babeuf, and after 1802, in the writings of Saint-Simon and his school. The idea had also been developed by Auguste Mignet (1824), Augustin Thierry (1825), Francois Guizot (1820s), Victor Considerant (1843), Benjamin Disraeli (1845), and Alexis de Toqueville (1847/48)

The undeniable misery of the working class, and the term “class struggle” far from having been discovered by Marx and Engels, had in fact been the foremost topic of contemporary politics and ideology. In fact, Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is reported to have discussed the burning problem of pauperism” caused by the inexorable impoverishment of workers in a Laissez Faire” Capitalist economic system.

The “Gilded Age” of the 1920s saw the rise of corporate power in the U.S. with the concentration of massive economic and political power in the hands of a relatively small number of people, and expansion of the U.S. economic and military empire throughout Central and South America and into the South Pacific. The flaws inherent in an unregulated market brought the Free Market Laissez Faire party to a disastrous end in 1929. Corporate behavior unchecked by the interests of the general public and a de facto one party government led to that age’s end with the onset of the Great Depression. Market reforms, started prior to the collapse by Teddy Roosevelt and completed by his cousin, Franklin, have been a source of seething anger among the wealthy and powerful ever since.

The Class Struggle Returns

Until the emergence of the NFC Republican movement, an unwritten social agreement had existed between the slightly right-of-center traditional-Conservatives and the slightly left-of-center traditional-liberals on the reforms that made the American Liberal Democratic system work for people of all classes. They had effectively dealt with the defects or weaknesses of free market capitalism, to prevent the development of a nation of two classes; with the rich getting ever richer, while the poor got ever poorer. This unwritten social democracy compact created the greatest middle-class, and the most stable and enduring Democracy in world history.

This issue was solved by the gradual development of a uniquely American system of Social Justice and Economic Regulation and Reform, which included; Free Public Education, Progressive Income Taxes, Corporate Regulation, Control of Monopolies, Conservation of Natural Resources and Land, Limitations on Inheritance rights, Rights of Workers to Organize and Strike, A Minimum Living Wage, Public Health Programs, Welfare to assist Impoverished Families, and a host of other social justice measures which were Christian in the purest sense; and which preserved Free Will, Personal Freedom, Entrepreneurship, and Property rights of the people; while providing for necessary and legitimate functions of government. Under this system, America’ corporations flourished as well as the standard of living of the people; and the U.S. produced the largest and most productive and profitable economy in the world.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
President Abraham Lincoln, December 3, 1861

This unique American compromise solution provided many of the necessary reforms that were needed to avoid the types of societal revolutions that have continued to occur in other countries. The CNF Republicans and their Corporate masters, who are the new Aristocratic rulers of American Society; are now in the process of reneging on the American Democratic System of Social Justice and Economic Reform, by dismantling the entire system, so carefully constructed during the past 200+ years, and especially during the New Deal” by what have been called the “Aristocratic Turncoats

The Aristocratic Turncoats

In some cases, a member of the ruling class, for whatever motive, has thrown his support to the people, at the expense of the ruling elites. Examples include Progressive populist (people’s party) leaders such as Julius Caesar, Thomas Jefferson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Julius Caesar, a descendant of a noble Patrician Roman family, and a highly successful military commander, decided not to ally himself with the Aristocratic Patricians and their political party called the “Optimates in the Roman Senate, but instead, for his first political office, became a “Tribune an elected Populares(populist) party representative of the “plebes or the common people. History records that the aristocratic Senators assassinated Caesar in 44 BC, because he was acquiring too much power, and had become a threat to the Republic, but this was the history written by the ruling class.

When his nephew, Caesar Augustus, acquired even greater powers as the first Imperator, he allowed the Aristocratic Senate to continue to function as a sort of limited legislative branch to his Imperial government, over which he had ultimate control. His descendants followed the same charade, and were all absolute despotic Dictators of what they claimed to be a Republic, but which had become an ultimately unstable Autocratic Empire.

It is more likely that Julius Caesar was murdered by the Aristocratic Senators because they considered him a traitor to the Conservative Patrician ruling class; as he was beginning to distribute Roman provincial land to his lower class plebeian soldiers, and appointing Knights of the Equestrian Order (middle class) to Senatorial rank.

Thomas Jefferson, who was a wealthy landowner and slave holder, was an Aristocrat, but he established himself early on as a champion of the common man. For example he and John Adams demanded that the Bill of Rights be included in the Constitution, whereas Alexander Hamilton, who built the Federalist Party, was opposed to including the Bill of Rights. The Federalists were eventually forced to agree, to amending the Constitution, to include the Bill of Rights, as a price of obtaining support for ratification.

Secretary of State Jefferson and others, who served in the first term of George Washington, despised the Aristocratic Paleo-conservative Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, and his fiscal and foreign policies.

Out of respect for President Washington, they stayed on until 1793. Jefferson then led the first opposition party, called the “Anti-Federalist Party”. This later became identified as the “Republican Party”, then the “Democratic-Republicans”, and finally the “Democratic Party

President Roosevelt, who was a descendant of an American Aristocratic family, was despised by the conservative ruling class, for his genuine populist New Deal policies which gave rights to minorities, and which redistributed some of the Nation’s commonwealth to the common man, who was in urgent need during the Great Depression.

The spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim Liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at Liberty those who are oppressed”
Jesus Christ, The King James Bible, Luke, 4:18

Roosevelt’s American Liberal Democratic New Deal economic policies and social justice programs, were aimed at reducing social misery by helping the American people to recover from the Great Depression, and to prevent such dislocations of Free Market Capitalism from ever threatening the nation again. He did this without causing political instability or surrendering to the extreme measures advocated by of the Communist or the Fascist movements. This earned him the hatred of the Corporate Robber Barons and the moneyed Aristocrats of his day.

The First Fascist Plot to Destroy Liberal Democracy in the USA

“Democracy in the West is the forerunner of Marxism and is the feeding ground of that world pestilence Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

Time magazine was created in 1923, as a propaganda vehicle for the powerful Financial and Industrial interests, grouped around the banking empire of J.P. Morgan. Morgan provided start up cash for Henry Luce, a Yale University graduate, and member of the Skull and Bones Society. (has routinely included the sons of the American Economic and Political Aristocratic ruling class, such as the Bushes). Time and Fortune magazine became the core of what would grow into a Corporate Propaganda Empire that earned Luce great power to influence mass public opinion.

In the 1920s, Luce became America’s Elmer Gantry for Fascism. He was an ardent advocate of Fascist Nationalism, and toured the country selling Mussolini’s concepts to America’s business elite and upper class. The American public was introduced to Benito Mussolini and Fascism in one of Time’s first issues, when on August 6, 1923, Luce decided to celebrate Il Duce’s 40th birthday by placing his portrait on the cover of Time. This was the first of five Time cover appearances for the Dictator of Italy.

Luce promoted the idea that America’s corporate and banking leaders were America’s Aristocracy, and more qualified to run the U.S. government than any politician, he is quoted saying that;

“It is not a seat in Congress, but on the directorate of our great corporations, which our countrymen regard as the greater post of honor and responsibility” Henry Luce, Skull and Bones Member

In 1928, Luce declared the U.S. Constitution obsolete and called for:

“…a new form of government.

On April 19, 1934 in a speech to the Chamber of Commerce, in Scranton, Pa. Luce said:

“The moral force of Fascism, appearing in totally different forms in different nations, may be the inspiration for the next general march of mankind” Henry Luce, Skull and Bones Member

At that time the ideology of Fascism had a large following in the U.S. Mussolini and Hitler were admired by the right wing Nationalist and Fiscal and Social Conservatives, who were against all of the programs of the New Deal, especially Social Security.

Luce had a deep hatred of FDR and the New Deal, which he constantly attacked as Socialism, on his speaking tours across the country; but it was later learned that he did more than just make speeches against FDR and Liberal Democracy.

In 1934, it was revealed, in hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that Conservative Wall Street Bankers, and Industrial leaders, undoubtedly instigated by J.P. Morgan interests; had actually plotted to overthrow President Roosevelt, and establish an American Fascist dictatorship, similar to those emerging in Europe.

Their Ideological descendants are still trying to dismantle every genuine Liberal and Humanitarian program of the New Deal, and replace them with the Raw Deal; benefiting only the Super-rich and powerful!

Luce had played a major role in the conspiracy, and had prepared the entire July 1934 issue of Fortune as a detailed political, economic, and cultural endorsement of Fascism. The issue was timed to appear as the conspiracy went into its final motions. It was undoubtedly planned to persuade the American people to accept and support the Coup-d-etat, and the transition to American Fascism.

This Corporatist-Conservative traitorous conspiracy was unprecedented in American political history!

The plotters made a major blunder, when they tried to recruit Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to join the conspirators, and assume a role comparable to a Prime Minister in the new government. Butler refused and reported the plot. He then testified concerning the plot before the HUAC in 1934.

General Butler was a famous marine who had risen through the ranks from enlisted private to Major General. He was the most respected soldier in America, having been awarded the Medal of Honor on two occasions for bravery in action. General Butler was a vocal critic of Colonialism and U.S. Foreign policy toward poor third world nations, and this caused him to be passed over for the post of Marine Corps Commandant.

Butler had retired with over 33 years of service, and was a National hero. He made more than 300 speeches a year to Veteran’s groups, and wrote a book called “War is a Racket” in which he bitterly criticized his own involvement over his entire career. In angry eloquence, Butler often referred to himself as a Racketeer and Gangster for Capitalism” He bitterly opposed WWI and the War profiteers.

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A Racket is best described, I believe as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is. The bill renders a horrible accounting; newly placed gravestones, mangled bodies, shattered minds, broken hearts and homes, economic instability. depression, and all its attendant miseries, back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.

What does it matter to the men who are killed? What does it profit those who are maimed? What does it profit their mothers and sister, their wives and their sweethearts? What does it profit their children? What does it profit the nation?

Take our own case. Until 1898 we didn’t own a bit of territory outside of the mainland of North America. At the time our national debt was a little more than $1,000,000,000. Then we became "internationally minded." We forgot, or shunted aside, the advice of the father of our Country. We forgot Washington’s warning about "entangling alliances." We went to war. We acquired outside territory”

“War Is A Racket,” by M/Gen Smedley D. Butler, Chap. 1

In 1934, the first American Fascist’s plans were foiled by this traditional- conservative patriotic military officer, but one who firmly believed in American Liberal Democracy and the Constitution.

The Plot was swept under the carpet by the Paleo-Fascist Conservative Republicans in Congress!

American Fascists were forced to lay low for decades after the WWII debacle of the European Fascists; but their political descendants have been at work undermining American Liberal Democracy, almost from the defeat of the Fascist Axis Powers at the end of the war in 1945.

So vehement was the sentiment of the Conservatives and Fascists of Roosevelt’s time, that he might have been assassinated, had it not been for his popularity with the people, the crisis of World War II, and his successful pursuit of Allied Victory over the European Fascists; whose aggressive wars and barbaric conduct shocked the world. (at least one assassination plot was attempted).

Never changing his domination stripes, Luce wrote in a famous Life magazine editorial published in 1941, prophetically called the “New American Century”, where he predicted;

“We must accept whole-heartedly our duty and our opportunity as the most powerful and vital nation in the world, and in consequence to exert upon the world, the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit.”
Henry Luce, Skull and Bones Member

Later Luce argued in the pages of Life, for Preventive Nuclear War against the Soviet Union. Luce’s un-democratic and un-Christian Fascist ideas have eerily reappeared in the Neo-Conservative “Program For A New American Century” (PNAC), the Grand Strategy of the NFC Republicans of the 21st Century.

The threat of Godless Communist Socialism gave Nationalist-Conservatives and the National Security apparatus, an opportunity to enlist the help of thousands of former Nazi officers, Scientists, and Intelligence agents, for the Cold War. Many European Fascist war criminals were not prosecuted; they were pardoned, protected and employed by the Nationalist-Conservatives of the European and American right wing, with the willing help of the U.S. CIA, FBI, and Military Intelligence.

The Successful Neo-Fascist Plot to Assassinate an American Liberal Democratic President

A few decades later, the wealthy Aristocratic turncoat, John F. Kennedy, was not so fortunate. The assassination of Kennedy in 1963, has been a source of continuous controversy, caused by an obvious cover-up by the Warren Commission, which was packed with such Nationalist-Conservatives, as Chief Justice Earl Warren, Director of the CIA, Allen Dulles, John J. McCloy, supported by the closest thing America has had to a Heinrich Himmler; J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI.

The fundamental facts however, are very clear, Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas; a hotbed of Ultra-Nationalist-Conservative organizations, such as, the John Birch Society, and other white Arch-Conservative right wing movements, that were enraged at Kennedy’s withdrawal of American military support to the ill-fated invasion of Cuba; and for his efforts to continue the liberalization of Federal and State laws, to end segregation in the South, and to give blacks the civil rights and economic opportunities enjoyed by white Americans.

Evidence shows that Lee Harvey Oswald had been one of a group of Army and Marine patriots that had volunteered to become CIA operatives; been trained in the Russian language, became false turncoats, and defected to Russia to try to obtain Human Intelligence (HUMINT) on the Russian military buildup. Oswald almost certainly became the scapegoat of a right wing Neo-Fascist plot to kill Kennedy, and turn the nation to the right.

Kennedy had acquired a host of enemies both within and outside the government as a result of many issues, but none was more volatile than the civil rights issues. In September 1962 the worst federal and state crisis since the Civil War was brewing in the state of Mississippi, which entered a state of virtual armed rebellion against the federal government over repeated attempts by Air Force veteran James H. Meredith to register as the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi, backed by a federal court order.

On the night of September 30, 1962 300 U.S. Marshals faced off against an army of over 2,000 rioters across a battlefield, illuminated by firebombs and tear-gas explosions. The rioters attacked with shotguns, Molotov cocktails, and a hijacked bulldozer and fire engine; and repeatedly charged the marshals from behind Confederate flags, drawing them into hand-to-hand combat. Blood began to flow as the crisis slipped out of control.

Just after nine P.M. a tall figure in a white cowboy hat appeared on the edge of the battlefield. It was recently retired Major General, Edwin A. Walker, U.S. Army Retired. Walker had led Eisenhower’s troops in the 1957 Little Rock integration crisis, but had quit the Army under fire after giving right wing-propaganda to his troops. Now he had become a segregationist firebrand, who proclaimed that the federal court order on Meredith was part of:

“…the conspiracy of the crucifixion by Anti-Christ conspirators on the Supreme Court”

Rioters gathered around the wild-eyed Walker and he climbed on a Civil war battle monument shouting:

“Don’t let up…you must be prepared for possible death…Protest!..Protest!.. Stand by your governor…

Eyewitnesses reported this was the turning point that pushed the riot out of control and triggered organized charges by hundreds of rioters in large groups. After a long night of rioting, two lay dead and hundreds wounded. The next morning 20,000 U.S. troops arrived and eventually restored order after fighting for hours with bands of armed roughnecks. Edwin Walker and a host of other anti-segregationist Southerners were entirely capable and agitated enough about integration to have ordered the assassination; but it is more likely that the killing was connected somehow to the aborted Bay of Pigs invasion by the CIA and the former Batista Cuban exiles.

Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and a host of other Liberal civil rights advocates have paid with their lives, to end the evils of slavery and segregation that have divided the country, since it’s founding.

The scourge of Nationalist-Conservative political factions has been with us, since the beginning of the nation. Here in the new world, the citizens of the British Colonies became divided politically between the Liberal Whigs and the Conservative Tories. The Whigs supported the colonists and the Independence movement. The Tories were against the War of Independence from England, and generally supported the English Monarchy.

They were a few of the Paleo-Fascist Conservatives, or the first American ideological ancestors of the CNF Republicans.

A Black Record of U.S. Paleo-Fascist Conservative Tyranny

There is not enough room in this Essay to recount the many injustices and sheer genocide which the Paleo-Conservative white Anglo-American settlers wrought on the Native-American population, as they moved ever westward. Suffice to say that the blessings of Liberty as envisioned by these Christian conquerors, did not include the American Indians.

The Slaughter of the Innocents:

When it was day the soldiers returned to the Fort, having massacred or murdered eighty Indians, and considering that they had done a deed of Roman Valour, in murdering so many in their sleep; where infants were torn from their mother’s breasts, and hacked to pieces in the presence of the parents, and the pieces thrown into the fire and in the water, and other sucklings were bound to small boards , and then cut, stuck, and pierced, and miserably massacred in a manner to move a heart of stone” David Pietrersz De Vries, describing the Pavonia massacre by New York Dutch Colonial troops, February 25-26, 1643

During the framing of the U.S. Constitution, there was a major split between the Representatives of the Northern and Southern Colonies over the issue of slavery. To get a Constitution passed, the more Liberal and moderate Christian representatives of the Northern Colonies that opposed slavery; were forced to accept a compromise with the Paleo-Fascist Conservative representatives of the Southern Colonies, over the non-Christian practice of slavery. This moral, ideological, and economic issue, was to result in the American Civil War less than a Century later. This unnecessary and tragic war resulted in the deaths of 359,528 Union soldiers, and 258,000 of their fellow Americans, on the Confederate side.

“What to the American slave, is your 4th of July? To him, your celebration is a sham; your national greatness is swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”
Frederick Douglas, July 4, 1852

After the Civil War, the southerners chafed under the inevitable reconstruction abuses of the occupying Federal Army and the Republican Party carpetbaggers. This resulted in the U.S. Southern states becoming solid Democratic Party bloc voters. This lasted until the mid 1960s; when the passage of a slate of Democratic Party sponsored Civil Rights legislation, especially the Voting Rights Act, granted American blacks, full citizenship, denied them since the ratification of the Constitution.

Here again, the unprincipled NFC Republicans were on the wrong side of morality and Christianity, as Richard Nixon invented the divisive, but successful Southern Strategy which shamefully encouraged, and then exploited, southern White's fear, anger and bigotry, for political gain. Eventually, most of the Southern Conservative-Democratic politicians abandoned their party and became Republicans.

“As I say on the cover of my book, it's that they've taken over the party of Lincoln. You could just look at the electoral map and you know that. It's the old Confederacy. And they've expanded it to the new booming Southwest. That and the Mountain West is their core base. There are people that essentially are the old David Duke crowd -- the Northern European, white, Protestant, small town, middle and lower-middle classes -- and their time has come. They're tired of all these foreigners that came in after '48 or after the Civil War, and all those two million Jews and all those Southern European Catholics -- those dusty people -- all those. They feel it's time to take back America. In essence, this is the revenge of the South for losing the Civil War.”
George E. Lowe: Author, Can "It" Happen Here? Hasn't "It" Already?
A Fascist Christian America; in an interview with Buzzflash.

By the early 21st Century, with a few exceptions, such as the cities of Atlanta and New Orleans, the American South from Virginia to Florida and from Texas to Georgia had become an NFC Republican bastion, from which they launched their nationwide drive for absolute power.

By 2005, the Congessional delegations and state assemblies of the old confederate states, are virtually all controlled by NFC Republicans, except for a small number of impotent minority representatives.

Aristocratic turncoats and Liberal Democracy advocates, such as FDR, have been responsible for all programs, throughout history, that have benefited the people, the commonwealth, and the moral and cultural spirit of every nation. Here in the U.S. they spearheaded the liberating movements to; end child labor, authorize labor unions, allow women and Blacks the vote, allow immigration, and hundreds of similar measures that have benefited the common man and woman, and the commonwealth of the nation.

These programs were sometimes unfortunately couched in symbolic terms of a War, such as the War on Poverty, but their priorities have always been for the people first. The Conservatives, whether Republicans or Democrats, have always opposed these reforms and sided with the Super-wealthy, the privileged, the powerful, and the well connected, and always against the people’s interests.

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places”
The King James Bible, Paul the Evangelist, Ephesians 6:12

The programs of the NFC Republicans; reflect their idolization of warfare, conquest, and domination; so valued by their ideological mentors in 1930s Europe. The NFC Republicans always employ the symbol of War, for all of their radical reactionary programs, but in their case, they have in fact, pursued one violent real War after another, on the common interests of the American people, and on any nation that they claim is against the Corporate Vital Interests of the U.S.

Perpetual War:

“All animals are forever warring; each kind is born to devour another. God gave reason to man; using it, he should scorn to debase himself by aping animals, especially since he has neither, natural equipment for killing nor instinct for sucking blood. The most wonderful part of the infernal business is that each leader of murderers causes his colors to be blessed and before setting out on carnage, piously invokes God.”
Francois Voltaire

They NFC Republicans Proudly Claim the Title of America’s War Party.

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