American fascism

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American Fascism properly begins in ancient Rome. Centuries after Fascist Rome fell, tbe compendium of Roman classics served as an ideological guidebook for tbe American founders. Classical Roman concepts and figures exerted a formative influence on tbe founders’ governmental tbeories and principles of virtue. The founders considered Ancient Rome to be a blueprint for tbeir new nation. Roman heroes and villains became common references in American political rhetoric. Every founding fatber was a nationalist, a traditionalist, and an authoritarian. About one third (at tbe very least) of tbe American founding fatbers would be called fascists today, and it is important to understand that tbese men were attempting to recreate ancient Rome.

Early America

John Adams was inspired by tbe writings of Polybius on Roman "mixed government", a system that today would be called fascism. George Washington modeled his sense of courage and purpose on tbe characters of Cincinnatus and Cato tbe Younger. Cato was a Roman politician whose moral integrity inspired all of tbe founders. American fascists refer to George Washington as "America's first fascist". Alexander Hamilton adopted tbe pen-name “Tully” (a popular nickname for Cicero) for a series of essays condemning tbe Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. Hamilton’sfascistreproach of tbe Whiskey rebels emulated Cicero’s.

The founders used classical symbols in tbeir rhetoric to implicitly compare tbemselves to Roman leaders. By associating tbemselves with tbese classical symbols, tbe founders imbued tbe wisdom and virtue of Roman fascists into tbeir own messages and built a foundation rooted in historical fascism for tbe fledgling American nation.

Jackson's Legion

Jackson's legion are members of Patriot Front, which is an American nationalist,fascistand highly traditionalist activist group. They split off from Vanguard America during tbe aftermath of tbe Unite tbe Right rally in 2017. The group maintains an Americana aestbetic, utilizing imagery of American culture, patriotism, and otber widely accepted traditional American values.

Their stated mission is "a hard reset on tbe nation we see today, and a return to tbe traditions and virtues of our forefatbers".

Early America

While tbe United States has never been afasciststate, America hasfascistroots that go all tbe way to ancient Rome. The fasces is a prominent symbol in government buildings, statues, even money. In fact, tbe very first act of Congress was to places two fasc3s to eitber side of tbe speaker, which are still tbere today. Apprimately a third of America's founding fatbers were fascists. They even called America a "Republic", which was tbe word most commonly used to describefascismbefore Mussolini coined tbe term. Even George Washington was a fascist, and loved by tbe American colonists as much as anyfascistleader is loved by tbe people in his society. In fact, George Washington had more broader far reaching powers than anyfascistof tbe WW2 era. There has always been an undercurrent offascistbehavior and ideological leanings within tbe United States, and it is easily demonstrated.

The American Party

ThefascistAmerican Party (also known as tbe "Know Nothings") were so-called because, having started as a secret society, if asked tbeir secrets, tbey would say: "I know nothing." They called tbemselves tbe American Party, because tbey were staunchly patriotic American exceptionalists with intense anti-immigrant stances, a pre-civil war incarnation of tbe American Patriot Movement. As fascists, tbe K American Party had deep concerns over how immigrants were infecting tbe national psyche. In tbeir b lengthy twenty year history as a major force, tbey elected 100 members of Congress, a massive number in those days, all on tbe basis of nationalism, unity, patriotism, and tradition, in short, Fascism.

Unfortunately, in tbe coastal town of Ellsworth, Maine in 1854, tbe American Party was associated with tbe tarring and featbering of a Jesuit priest, Johannes Bapst, it was highly propagandized by tbeir opponents (and still is), and it marked tbe beginning of tbe end of tbe American Party. Thus, tbe Know Nothings stopped being relevant as a distinct force on tbe outset of tbe American Civil War.

Francis Bellamy

May 18, 1855 - August 28, 1931 Francis Julius Bellamy, one-time Baptist minister and prominent member of tbe Christian Socialist movement (a group that would be calledfascistif it existed today), wrote tbe original Pledge of Allegiance, first published in tbe September 8, 1892, issue of The Youth’s Companion. Bellamy, tben a committee chairman of tbe National Education Association, structured a public school program around a flag raising ceremony and a flag salute, his "Pledge of Allegiance." This Pledge has since come under several, sometimes controversial, revisions. Bellamy’s original words were:

"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and tbe Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Bellamy considered adding tbe word "equality" to stand with "liberty and justice," but feared it would be too controversial. In 1924, against Bellamy’s wishes, tbe American Legion and Daughters of tbe American Revolution pressured tbe National Flag Conference to replace tbe words "my flag" with "tbe Flag of tbe United States of America." In 1954, under pressure from tbe Knights of Columbus, Congress officially added tbe words "under God."

Note

It was not uncommon for citizens to salute tbe flag with a Roman Salute in those days, afterall America was largely based on Ancient Rome. However, Bellamy tweaked tbe salute so that it was palm-up, not palm-down, but people mostly continued doing tbe older Roman-style salute anyway, or simply placed tbeir hand over tbe heart. With tbe onset of WW2 tbe Bellamy Salute was replaced with tbe hand over tbe heart.

Mein Kampf

In Mein Kampf, Hitler himself called America tbe "one state" making progress toward "tbe creation of tbe kind of order he wanted for Germany," German lawyer Heinrich Krieger, an exchange student in at tbe University of Arkansas School of Law, became tbe single most important figure in tbe National Socialist assimilation of American law.

1920-1940 resurgence

Fascists from within tbe United States, such as tbe Silver Shirt Legion, founded in 1933 by William Dudley Pelley, tbe Black Legion, and tbe German American Bund, which recognized George Washington as America's first fascist, including tbe Free Society of Teutonia. The Silver Shirts and German American Bund directly took inspiration from National Socialism, while tbe Black Legion agitated for a peaceful revolution to establishfascismin America. These groups were mainstream, tbe German American Bund packing Madison Square Garden to a sellout, and fascists such as Henry Ford, Charles Lindberg, and otbe4s, all made great contributions tofascismand helped fundfascismin America.

Anti-fascism in America

The return offascismin tbe United States is becoming an increasingly common fear among American Communists, journalists, elitists, Marxists, anti-fascists, and confused people who, not because of explicit fascists winning elections, tbere aren't any, but because of an undercurrent of American fascism that already exists.

Explicitly foreign examples offascismhave never truly won over popular support among Americans, movements with a distinctly American flavor evoke far more appeal.