A Fascist US means WWIII

 

On this 4^th of July, the USA is on the edge of civil war.  It could happen today.  Who knows.  Really.  It’s that tense.

The Republicans have gone fascist.  Assault rifles are everywhere.  The fascists think it is a right for angry citizens who hate their government to openly carry military-grade weapons anywhere (not what the Constitution had in mind).  There is open hatred for the LGBTQ community.  There is open misogyny and enslavement of women, in the form of making abortion illegal, thus controlling woman's bodies and life path.  There is denial of climate change, backed by big SUVs and V-8 trucks that spew greenhouse gases.  And there is White nationalism in the eyes of the White sea of faces, led by White males (do not be fooled by the Potemkin Village of non-White faces, carefully arranged in the audience).

The original Civil War of the 1860s was about the South wanting to keep slavery.  How disgusting is that?  It's about as disgusting as starting a civil war to advance White patriarchy, and to demonize/criminalize LGBTQ people.

This has everything to do with a cult-religious takeover, based on raging fanaticism, and nothing to do with what is best for the country or the planet.  It is rulership by demagoguery, gaslighting, bullying, torment, fear, incarceration and (inevitably) torture.

The USA has always done this to Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color.  It has always kept up an epidemic of violence against women.  But if the Republicans take over, all progress in terms of human rights will be destroyed.  And there has been great progress.

The Republicans want to take us back to the mentality of the Assyrians in 800BC.  Maximize your militarism, demand absolute obedience to an imposed code, and use your might to conquer, plunder, torture--and then brag about how great you are; brag that you are a god.

Civilization has always been rife with plutocracy, monarchy, theocracy, including enforced loyalty tests and lock-down on dissent.  Today, even, dictatorships are on the rise.

But the technology we have now is unforgiving.  Nuclear weapons don’t allow second chances.  

The narcissism of a dictatorship demands utter fealty.  People are oppressed until they become tool-using ants in a hive.  The social structure that results is hostaged though fear to a dictator's disordered view of reality.  The bottomless insecurity of a tyrant means they must always be right, without question. 

Simply put, if we don’t find a way to advance the psychological health of society, alongside the advance of technology, war will destroy us.  We have the ingenuity to figure out and enact a better form of ethical governance  If we can create advanced microchips, AI, go into space, and so son on--then we can devise healthy ways of governance.  

How would we do it?  First, call in ethicists, psychologists, sociologists and other experts on human behavior, get them to brainstorm a 'best ethical society.'  The one requirement would be that these experts don't hold the view that human nature is fated to be evil, and instead that culture can mold us andd steer us into good behavior.  Next, after the experts have brainstormed best possible world scenarios, start running simulations on a super-advanced computer program.  This would be as huge as the Manhattan Project, except the goal would be to bring Goodness to humanity, instead of to create ultimate destruction for humanity.

What is standing in our way of launching this Project for Goodness?  One thing:  entrenched dictators and demagogues who impose tyranny.  

If humanity refuses to advance psychologically, and  instead tethers itself to reason-killing, cult loyalty tests that serve the naricissistic egos of mentally ill kings, the whole world is headed for nuclear war.

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