Reply #40: Predictable? Unfortunately yes. Saw it from 1919-1945. I hate reruns, too. [View All]

[JohnOneillsMemory]

Thank you for your detailed discourse...ahem.

Perhaps you are fixated on Vietnam as a unique historical event. My emphasis is on the domestic commonalities such as public opinion and framing of issues.

Ever heard of Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson, Newt Gingrich, Ken Lay, Ollie North, George H.W. Bush, Rupert Murdoch, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Richard Perle, Leo Strauss, Oliver Poindexter, Dick Cheney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.?

I think you have.

I can also recommend 'Hitler: A Study in Tyranny' by Alan Bullock.
And another good one is 'Hegemony or Survival' by Noam Chomsky.
Another good Chomsky is 'Understanding Power.' Very comprehensive.

Because this is the key to understanding politics-
power protects power and gives not a whit for morality. Hence the pathological amorality of corporations. And nation states behave as corporations, not as the sum total of the words to their national anthems.

The US is the world's largest corporation and is highly fascist. Look up the definition of the word and also do a Google search on the psychological study of the 'authoritarian personality.' This is something that was studied after WWII to find out how people could support something so murderous as fascism.

Power has a vested interest in keeping people divided, fearful, and ignorant using all those -isms we've become wary of.

Upon doing the research, you will find that the fearful, hating, conservative mindset that is related to the 'authoritarian personality' is rampant in the American population.

Here. Check it yourself. Take this 'Fascist Receptivity' test constructed in 1950 to measure many personality traits that might be precursors to accepting fascism. What is your 'fscale'?

http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm

Just in case you actually care about what you or I post here.