Know better than we do

We are headed for another government shutdown, this time extortion is being used  to stop the Affordable Care Act from being fully implemented.

The radical right, henceforth I will call them Republican Fascists, have decided to go all in on stopping the ACA.

And the justification is basically that their constituents are incensed that the ACA represents the federal government condescendingly treating them like it knows better.

The logic of this anarchist philosophy is startling:  if your side lose a vote in a fair exercise of democracy, the minority can  still can stop the action by throwing a fit, and shutting down the government to do it.

This is fascism folks, clear and simple.  Read the history of the rise of fascism in Italy and yes, Germany, during the 1920s and 1930s.  Both movements started as small minorities at the beginning, and used obstructionism and anarchy to slowly erode the democratic institutions (which were struggling with the ravages of WWI) of the time.

The Wiemar Republic, in Germany, struggled against huge odds, to pay unjust reparations and establish a democratic tradition in a former monarchy.  The fascists used the approach that the legitimate government was ineffective because it was using a I know what is best for you approach, was allied with the other democracies in the world (who had just prevailed on paper in WWI), and was failing.

Fascism in Germany preached a return to ancient values, militarism, and hatred of Jews as the source of all of Germany's problems.  And, it also set up a para-government everywhere it could, to prove fascism could govern better.

History shows that this was a sham.  The para-governmental structures that were put together, using outsourcing of civil service function, were in the end, hopelessly corrupt.  Gold was hoarded, expensive art stolen, and fascist "officials" basically used their positions to line their pockets.  You only need to analyze the "privatized" functions in Iraq of Republican Fascism to find the same corruption.

The Tea Party, if you check, is based on Revolutionary War values, militarism, and hatred of liberals (especially a certain President who just happens to be black), as the source of all of America's problems.  In addition the Tea Party has actively taken over local and state governments, to prove that its form of government (we decide you follow or else) can govern better.  It is no accident that states who have been taken over by the Tea Party, have enacted right wing legislation, that curbs civil rights, reproductive rights, and allows no input from the minority party.  

And, the next step, will be through voter suppression, to eliminate the other party.  

And, if you look closely enough, many of these para-governmental activities, are riddled with corruption.

These are not idle coincidences.  There is a plan here, and it is being dictated by the Koch Brothers, the Heritage Foundation; etc., who meet together all the time to plan a coordinated attack against democracy.  The efforts to close down the government and create chaos are just that, an effort to cause chaos and increase calls for dictatorship.

If we allow this cabal of evil to prevail, by extorting us into curbing the ACA, what is next?  I would predict ending various governmental departments, cutting the Civil Rights Act (just as they have ended the Voting Rights Act), and finally suspending the Congress of the United States.

There will be some "crisis" that requires this, which will also necessitate the incarceration of all Democrats and liberals, who could be  forced to carry ID placards hung around their necks.

If this sounds far fetched, it isn't.  Democracy is at risk right now, there is no doubt about it.  If the Republican Fascist Party prevails, we are on our way to totalitarianism in this country.

Fight back.  Call your Congressmen, even Doug LaMalfa (who is in on the above by the way) and tell them that you will work to beat them in the next election if they don't stop the extortion.   And then, in 2014, vote!  Vote, and get others to vote with you, else we won't be voting anymore.