Democracy in Crisis: Fascism Reborn

by Thomas Murphy

For at least the past twenty five years I have seen America's leaders (of both parties) marching in the footprints of Hitler and Mussolini, and like the German and Italian citizens of the 1930s, Americans don't seem to mind. The extremely conservative wing of the GOP has skillfully converted xenophobia (fear of foreign religions and inferior races) into one of the basic values of secular America. Business journals blare warnings of the imminent collapse of our financial world and economic system while quoting CEOs, who are making $million per month, assuring us that everything is well with the world economy, that echo the statements that preceded "The Great Depression" in the 1930s. I don't wish to leave unnoticed by today's generations the similarities between the actions of today's "robber barons", and their justification for their actions, and the recent actions and statements by government officials and business leaders. I claim no special knowledge nor any prescience, but I believe that we are what we pretend to be and so it's important that we pretend to be honest, and honorable, and humane.

49 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 19, 2020