Opus 2025-467: Deconstruction Strikes Again

Don’t think that philosophy has no relevance for our daily lives.  The philosophy of deconstruction which is rampant in our elites is working overtime to redefine the words of our language so that we cannot communicate.  The latest target of redemption is the word “fascist”.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I have.  The word “fascist” appears quite frequently in the click bait that is offered on my YouTube algorithm.  People throw it around casually.  A definition of fascism has always been slippery, but in my mind it is a socioeconomic system in which the government and big business cooperate to establish a dictatorship over the masses.  It’s not communism.  It’s not pure socialism.  It’s a cooperation which we have sometimes called in our country, crony capitalism.

We see an example of this when one of the big media companies is accused of cooperating with the government to censor conservatives in order to control an election.  This has happened several times in different ways.  The social media company tries to act like it was coercion.  Possibly.  But it was coercion with a willing victim.  I would doubt that we will ever find out who approached whom first.

Another example would be the kinds of government regulations that we find in such things as the Americans with Disabilities Act.  In it, they require business to spend considerable amounts of money establishing access for people with limited mobility such as wheelchairs, crutches, and other difficulties.  It sounds so caring, so sensitive.  In reality, it is an expression of fascism.  You see, big business can make these changes with out-of-pocket change . Medium size businesses get stressed.  They can comply but it takes funds that might have been used to expand and does things like paint handicap parking places in front of the local gym.  In order to seem really compassionate the government makes allowances for small businesses and saying if they’re under a certain size they do not have to comply.  It sounds so caring.  It’s certainly not brutal.  No one is beaten up or carried to the Gulag.  It is still fascism.

Why is it fascism?  It passes laws which make it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, for the little guy to ever make it into the ranks of the big guys.  You have someone in business.  They started the business with their family.  They worked hard and made sacrifices.  They did well.  They expanded.  They increased production, hired new workers, paid more taxes and got ready to expand again.  They run into this government regulation, which was made to be so sensitive.  You see in order to take that next step up towards becoming a big successful company they have to invest large amounts of money in order to be compliant with the government regulations for the handicapped.  That would be bad enough.  Some might be willing to give it a try.  It would require borrowing more money and going deeper in debt and making it harder to take that next step up.  What goes on behind the scenes in our fascist economy?  Government regulations make it very hard for them to qualify for a loan they can afford.  A little back scratching and winking convince the bank to deny the loan.  So even if they’re willing to take the risk they’re not allowed to.

Think of it as a soft form of dictatorship.  Again, no one is locked up for the rest of their life in a jail.  They’re simply locked up at their economic class.  It keeps the power in the hands of the elites.  It keeps the little people where they belong.

The modern definition of fascist is being changed to mean anyone who disagrees with a liberal.  It is deconstructionism in action.  It takes away truth and makes it impossible for people who believe in absolute values to function safely in society.

Keep correcting people and use the term correctly yourself.

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