Alfred Adler and climate change

February 14, 2026

Adler’s psychology is pretty straightforward, and thus is quite usefull to direct attention. I’ll also add a little complexity theory to this mix [1] [2]

Adler’s fundamental position can be expressed as: We all have both a desire for power and competence, and to display that power and competence to others.

In this situation, life involves challenges (for almost all beings). Some of these challenges are ‘routine’, challenges of love, life and work (gathering energy for life). Some of these challenges will vary from place to place, generation to generation, or gender to gender. There are very few people who don’t have to face such challenges. Basically you cannot develop without experiencing these challenges and facing them.

We can succeed in ‘dealing with’ those challenges displaying our power and competence, we can then face new challenges. We can acknowledge failure and revise our plans and start again knowing more than we did when we first started. We can pretend we are successful and superior to others, or loose energy and retreat into nothingness.

Acknowledging failure is better than fake success, because acknowledging failure allows you to try again, or start something new. Failure is normal. When we learn to walk we fail repeatedly, but we get there, and it is similar with many other learning experiences/tasks.

As we mature we realise that we need to work with others on big challenges, and that contributing to others’ success is also a great feeling provided you are not avoiding challenges through how superior you are.

Life tends to present you with the choice between difficulty or superior ease, and the challenges are rarely finished, because we will all face sickness and death.

Sometimes the big challenges are challenges you have little to no hope of solving alone. Complexity is always generating new challenges, often because of the unintended consequences of our attempts to bring order to the world. Climate change is one of these challenges.

Again as well as trying and temporarily failing, you can pretend that scientists don’t know what they are talking about, that you are superior to them, because you can see the problems with their ideas/theories or observations without actually doing the work. You don’t have to face the challenges because they are not challenges, or you face the real challenges others you don’t like deny like perhaps trans people, or the decline of white culture or whatever,.

And it is difficult to deal with climate. You often have the State against you, which is keen to damage people who oppose climate change and who might raise alarm amongst other people. You also have exceedingly wealthy and powerful corporations fighting you to maintain their profit.

So it is not easy.

But Adler’s point is that human life is not always easy, especially in the middle of a big social challenge which is produced by the dominant groups.

The point is, do you want to try and help protect yourself, your children and grandchildren, or the children and grandchildren of your friends and kin?

Will you explore the problem and try to find constructive ways to work with others to resolve those challenges?

This requires courage, and the imagination to think of something new.

Or do you want to avoid the challenge, and yeild to destruction and fantasy or not?

We can have hope because we can persist, even in the face of defeat. Hope is not a feeling, it is a set of actions. We are part of the system and also somewhat independent on the system – we can fight the trends of the system. ‘Hope’ is signed by the fight and the search for solutions.

More later

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February 14, 2026

retesting~

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A silly post

June 26, 2025

What would happen if we pretended that we could play the game of life without without having to destroy our environment by playing?

After all most of us care about some of the people we live with, and around, and would not go out of our way to harm them. Perhaps we could live without going out of our way to harm other beings? Without pollution, or pretending that we don’t pollute?

It could be an interesting venture to try, not that we would get much support. I guess it would look like cranky individualism.

But is hard to play anything without an ‘environment; play in…

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Robert Reich on the One Big Beautiful Bill

May 23, 2025

Reich asked people to share….. Hence I’m sharing – and as usual it demonstrates Trump’s neoliberal priorities – Benefit his own class of people first, and stomp on everyone else.

The bill is over a thousand pages long, it is almost certain that there are pork-barrel sections in it for particular Republicans.

No sensible bill should be that long, Congress should know what it is voting on.

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Reich says:

The old professor in me thinks the best way to convey to you how utterly awful the so-called “one big beautiful bill” passed by the House last night actually is would be to give you this short ten-question exam. (Answers are in parenthesis, but first try to answer without looking at them.)

1. Does the House’s “one big beautiful bill” cut Medicare?

2. Because the bill cuts Medicaid, how many Americans are expected to lose Medicaid coverage?

3. Will the tax cut in the bill benefit the rich or the poor or everyone?

4. How much will the top 0.1 percent of earners stand to gain from it?

5. If you figure in the benefit cuts and the tax cuts, will Americans making between about $17,000 and $51,000 gain or lose?

  • (They’ll lose about $700 a year).

6. How about Americans with incomes less than $17,000?

  • (They’ll lose more than $1,000 per year on average).

7. How much will the bill add to the federal debt?

8. Who will pay the interest on this extra debt?

  • (All of us, in both our tax payments and higher interest rates for mortgages, car loans, and all other longer-term borrowing.)

9. Who collects this interest?

  • (People who lend to the U.S. government, 70 percent of whom are American and most of whom are wealthy.)

10. Bonus question: Is the $400 million airplane from Qatar a gift to the United States for every future president to use, or a gift to Trump for his own personal use?

  • (It’s a personal gift because he’ll get to use it after he leaves the presidency.)

11. [In another email Reich argues that: the courts are now without ability to enforce judgements against Trump and his coterie in government.]

The courts have one power to make their orders stick: holding federal officials in contempt and enforcing such contempt citations against them. [However the big bill states]

“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued….”

As U.C. Berkeley School of Law Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky notes, this provision would eliminate any restraint on Trump.

‘Without the contempt power, judicial orders are meaningless and can be ignored. There is no way to understand this except as a way to keep the Trump administration from being restrained when it violates the Constitution or otherwise breaks the law. …

‘This would be a stunning restriction on the power of the federal courts. The Supreme Court has long recognized that the contempt power is integral to the authority of the federal courts. Without the ability to enforce judicial orders, they are rendered mere advisory opinions which parties are free to disregard.”

With this single provision, in other words, Trump will have crowned himself king.

[12. Another source states that the US government’s authority to borrow, known as the debt limit, will increase by $4tn. Anyone who has followed American Politics knows that Republicans try to stop debt limit expansion when there is a Democrat President. It also admits that Trump will hugely increase the deficit despite the chaos generated by Doge. This is usually considered bad.]

[If you didn’t know this,] that’s because of

(1) distortions and cover-ups emanating from Trump and magnified by Fox News and other rightwing outlets.

(2) A public that’s overwhelmed with the blitzkrieg of everything Trump is doing, and can’t focus on this. [“Flood the zone with shit” as Bannon says]

(3) Outright silencing of many in the media who fear retaliation from the Trump regime if they reveal things that Trump doesn’t want revealed, [and the ownership of Media by Billionaires and corporations, who will benefit in the short term from Trump’s policies.]

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Dictatorship or Evacuation?

April 5, 2025

Trump may want a dictatorship with himself at the top gaining deference from everyone. He has for example, not consulted with congress about a number of things he is supposed to consult about. He has said he will be able to seek a third term, possibly through succession. There are innumerable stories about how State level Republicans have been trying to get rid of potential non-Trump voters to fix elections for good eg [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]. This is all part of Project 2025.

But if that is his aim, his attempts to implement project 2025 may not be generating the result he wants. Dictatorships are usually said to require a strong, well organised State.

By pulling the State apart, and massively confusing people as to his aims, he is generating a plutocracy, in which those who have enough riches will be able to do what they want, and those who do not have enough riches will get to do what they are told and to suffer. This represents a philosophy generally called “libertarianism” [7], [8]. Peter Thiel one of the billionaire founders of the movement leading to project 2025, stated clearly that “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Democracy, in which people (including women) are consulted, is apparently incompatible with corporate liberty, or the liberty of the rich and special. Libertarianism, or oligarchy, is more likely to result from Project 2025.

Musk is a libertarian, who may well consider getting some people off earth more important than any aim of general welfare – after all if Earth is rendered unlivable before he gets a self-sufficient Mars base, then humanity may be doomed. If every human on Earth dies as a result of corporate and government actions, and the survivors on Mars found ‘Human space’ then all is well – humanity continues. This is virtue in the long term! As far as I know he has not declared government spending on his Space-X company to be a waste of money, and suitable for cutbacks (although he apparently has terminated expenditure into investigations into potentially illegal acts by his companies) [8]. He seems far keener to sink money into escape than into technology to prevent or lessen the effects of climate change – as after all climate science in the USA has been severely disrupted and repressed [9], [10], [11], [12].

Generally corporations like stability, so they can plan, so they can engage in profitable but low risk investment and so on. So most companies will not like the chaotic result of Project 2025 when they see the results, however much they have supported it until then.

However, they will fight to retain their power and positions, and the destruction of the US State will likely lead to the enshrinement of corporate power, wealth and struggle.

It could result in a feudal system in which ‘the Barons’ of industry fight over property, without the obligation the real Barons had to provide any ‘protection’ for the people. There will be nothing to constrain pollution or ecological destruction, or to counter act against the power of riches – except The Market – and the conveyance of elites to Mars -which will not be a pleasant life either.

However, a likely unexpected consequence of these policies, could be that the capitalist market falls apart, because ordinary people do not have the money to drive production… Can capitalism as we know it survive without a relatively well off working class, with the rich just serving each other? I don’t know. It will be a different type of organisation, perhaps again if it encourages mass die off, then it might survive going to Mars….

What happens after the elites hit Mars, is anyone’s guess.

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Trump tariffs and the world economy

April 4, 2025

Economies are complex systems. Predicting what will happen is a fraught occupation. As you will know it seems easy for economists to say that the economy will boom, or is now stable, just before it collapses.

However, it seems pretty safe to say that a major set of disruptions, such as the huge tariffs that Trump has imposed on many countries, including allies, could lead to chaos and collapse.
Militarily, it makes visible what some have been saying for a while, that the US under Trump is not a reliable ally and you should shift your alliances elsewhere. If so, that shifts balances of power away from the USA.

If he has exempted Russia from tariffs but put them on Ukraine, as I have read, then that gives another reason why people will not trust him as a military ally.

In Australia it is quite obvious that the tariffs have been place on weird locations, such as uninhabited islands, or Norfolk Island which at the moment seems to have no trade with US at all [1], [2]. It seems that officially figures were calculated by subtracted US imports from a countries exports and declaring that this had to have something to do with tariffs [3] [4], . This is complete Rubbish. The American people may not be informed by their media, but business people will know the figures are essentially random and there for punishment’s sake.

This fragility of purpose and calculation, may cause people to evaluate the US as a “basket case” and shift trade into non US dollars, or provoke the Chinese to sell part of their dollar reserve. This would have huge effects on American Power, status, and currency stability, as the dollar is potentially sold off everywhere.

The Tariffs will massively boost price increases in the USA in time. Sensible US companies will have bought excess products to help them with the price increases over the last couple of months, but that will only last for a time and some of them will use the tariffs to excuse price rises. This is called ‘replacement costs.’

As a result, people in the US will pretty certainly be paying more for almost everything soon. This probably will not trouble the top 5% income and wealth owners, but it will trouble most other people.
Farmers will also go bust because of the scrapping of USAID which bought billions of products from them [5], [6]. However, this will allow large US landowners to displace even more ordinary farmers.

Exports will probably crash, because people elsewhere on the planet, will resist buying American products (I might even stop using Amazon) and most countries will boost their tariffs against American products or seek out products from elsewhere, because no one knows what else Trump will do in the future. This wrecking of exports will further depress wages, and add to suffering.

The tariffs will possibly be hugely beneficial to China who will likely become the center of a new world trade order – the US has handed China the renewables market already,

My feeling is that seeing trade with the USA collapse, American companies will not find it that attractive to return to the USA. But if they do, they will likely build up to date fully automated factories, that will not increase the employment of ordinary workers. If they hire anyone it will be at the basic wage, and you will likely have full time employment with food and housing insecurity for most people.

Education will have collapsed, except for the rich. It will no longer lead to good jobs, just to people who support right wing ideology which will be all that can be taught, so ignorance will increase. It is debatable if a modern economy can survive mass ignorance – we shall see.

Then of course you have to face increased climate change. With Trump doing everything he can to destroy the environment (even banning paper straws!! [7]), the world condition will get much worse than it could have. However, the USA will probably encounter mass poisonings as it becomes legal to dump almost anything in poor areas where people cannot afford the law. Lack of stability in the climate/ecology, with wild storms overwhelming what can be insured, will also curtail economic stability, so the results of Trump’s presidency will pile up, and be unlikely to be beneficial for most people.

The outlook is not good because of many Trump induced factors, but, as I said, its complex and I could be wrong.

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Are Trump voters responsible for him being anti-democracy and destroying the country?

February 17, 2025

No.

All 77,302,580 Trump voters do not have to support Trump’s moves for anti-democracy and destroying the country.

As far as I know Trump never campaigned saying he is anti-democracy and aimed at destroying the country. So few people. who voted for him were voting for that.

Trump also did not get 50% of the total electorate voting for him, he even got less than 50% of those who did vote. Other Presidents have had much bigger majorities in the Electoral College, and it did not stop them being opposed. There was no landslide of support.

So Trump can have lied (surprise!), or completely misunderstood what he is doing (Surprise!!!!). And, sadly with high-rating 100% pro-Trump media, many people may never have encountered the truth of what he promised to do.

So, lets ignore the fact that he threatened to terminate the constitution to prevent him from losing elections, and promised to be a dictator. People were told this was exaggerated or even lies, despite being truth. We cannot blame people for believing what trusted sources tell them repeatedly. This is unfortunately how people work, when they cannot have had experience.

My argument is that Trump does not know, or understand, what he is doing is bad. He may even be completely well-intentioned in his actions.

The problem for the USA is that Trump is a corporate boss, with no adult experience of being anything else.

Bosses never have to deal with democracy. They can more or less do what they like to their workers, to their company and to their property. They can betray and deceive other people. If they have influence and personal riches they can get away with almost anything (as Trump has), unless corporations of equal power get in the way.

On top of this, Trump thinks he knows everything. Therefore he does not have to consult or negotiate with anyone. People just have to do what he says, because he is the boss and knows best. People who advise anything else are defining themselves as enemies.

Partly because he is a positive thinker, Trump forbids people to discuss issues he does not like. Events he deliberately ignores did not happen, or will recover by the force of his personality and positive thought. People who do not gush over him and agree to ignore disliked events, are disloyal to America, hence they have to be sacked. Climate change, for example, is not real, or to be mentioned by government departments. Pandemics are likewise not anything people can discuss. This, in his mind, makes America safe again.

You cannot run any non-totalitarian State like that, Especially democratic states. People are supposed to be able to disagree, they are supposed to notice unpleasant events. And even totalitarian States will fail without accurate feedback about the world, because the leader governs in fantasy and nobody who wants to survive can advise the great leader to change their mind or understanding.

Trump is ending democracy not deliberately, but because he does not understand what it needs or how it works. He thinks being a President makes him the unchallenged boss of that country..

Trump also does not understand how social and economic forces work. Again this is partly because he is a boss, and all bosses care about is the bottom line and their profit. This may be fair enough for a company, but Presidents and politicians should consider what is good for most people in the country in the long run. They should not be governing just for personal profit, the profit of shareholders, or for the next quarter. They should be governing for everyone, and for the best possible next 200 years at least.

However, over the last 40 years, for nearly all Republicans, and many Democrats have embraced neoliberalism: “what is good for big business is good for the country.” Which often translates as what is good for bosses is good for the country. If that means lots of homelessness, if that means lots of disease ridden people, if that means low wages and no hope of social mobility no matter how hard you work then, that is the price you pay to support big business and The Market. Trump seems to agree. Anything which might inhibit bosses or profits like Climate Change should be ignored. We should not even prepare for likely future disasters.

So he will continue and intensify the policies that have made America “Second Rate’’ if you will.

In terms of the world. Trump has clearly shown the USA cannot be trusted. He has surrendered to Putin over Ukraine before the negotiations started (breaking his own principle laws of the deal), and without even talking to the Ukrainians, or NATO. The sensible thing for NATO to do is to reject any negotiated solution if it does not include Russian withdrawal and compensation for the damage of the invasion, and to discuss whether to expel the USA from NATO as it clearly considers it is a boss and not a partner. Trump might be happy with the expulsion, but I suspect he will be offended, and that might lead to war, and to American deaths over events that could have been avoided.

His proposal to override Palestinian property rights in Gaza and ethically cleanse Palestinians by force to make money for real estate developers, probably including himself, also demonstrates that he cares nothing for Democracy or poorer people in general. Profit is everything, consequently he is, for neoliberal minds, doing good.

His overseas policies announce that the USA is no longer a force for good, but a force for profit and dictatorship. The free world can no longer be led by the USA. End of story. Maybe Trump wants to be the leader of the autocratic world, and destroy democracy elsewhere as well?

Non of this was known by all Trump voters before the election. In many cases, it could not have been known. As a result, they do not have to support his anti democracy moves or his destruction of the USA. Some of the more badly informed, will continue supporting him, because they do not understand or wish to understand, but it is probable that Trump will continue to lose support as his actions come to affect people, and they lose government support they depended upon, and prices keep rising while wages do not. Most Trump supporters have been deceived, but they it is possible they can start seeing what is happening, and admit to themselves that the deceiver deceived.

That is, unless Democrats drive them away, because its easier to attack supporters than to attack Trump.

Democrats do seem to be that stupid sometimes.

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entropy again

November 20, 2024

The simplest form of what gets called entropy, is the dissipation of energy that occurs every time energy is directed to do some work. Energy gets lost when it is used.

Some, to all, of this dissipated energy cannot be regathered or reused without even more energy use and dissipation. It is not worth the effort.

This means that a system without an ‘outside’ source of energy (eg. a human body without food, the Earth without the sun), will eventually run down. No system can generate enough energy to keep itself going forever, it must take energy in from outside itself. This is why there are no perpetual motion machines.

As all organisms, materials and machines which use energy or direct energy to work or movement, or action etc. dissipate energy, wear out, suffer friction or accidents, do not replicate correctly etc, the idea of entropy is also applied to overall dissipation of ‘order’ or ‘functionality’ in the system or in relationships between participants in the system. Growth and development occurs when there is enough energy available for functional participants to build (often increasingly complex and) functional patterns and relationships.

‘Things’ and systems break down because it eventually takes more energy to maintain them than they can gather or direct to repairs, or there is no easy-enough access to external energy. It points to the idea that if ‘processes’ or things are not maintained and repaired they will eventually fall apart, or otherwise change from their ordered or functional relational states. However if the input and direction of energy can be maintained this is less likely, but accidents and breaks in relationships usually accumulate. Participants can end up building an order which is hostile to them and undermines their attempts to maintain and repair the system to which they belong.

It seems habitual for human organizations to become so complicated and complex as they grow that they expand beyond the ability of humans or machines to maintain or repair the functional relationships between participants (not enough energy or time) and head into collapse or decay, or to some new emergent order (if there is enough energy).

It is in some sense possible that the USA is more likely to breakdown through overwhelming infrastructure (bridge, roads sewage, water supplies, electricity cables, etc) breakdowns and misconnections, than from stupid politics. But stupid politics will not help maintain functional relationships, or will direct energy away from the problems.

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What is meant by fascism?

November 15, 2024

Intro: Categories

To describe, or define fascism, you have to understand something about categories in the world. Categories are human constructs and ideas. They are not inevitably pointing to a definite ‘thing/process’ in that world. This is not a statement that they can never point at something independent and real.

The first point is that nothing exists alone. Humans exist because of the sun, the physical properties known and unknown of the universe, billions of years of genetic accidents, interactions between creatures, the presence of photosynthesis, the temperature range, the huge amounts of non-genetically related bacteria and viruses in our bodies much of which is essential for our function. Things/processes overlap and constantly change, so a human is entangled with many other processes. This makes definition a process of abstraction from a context.

The second point is that as human constructs categories do not necessarily, refer to things/processes that are all the same in the same way. This has been known since Wittgenstein and Vygotsky, but does not permeate much of our thinking. Wittgenstein talked of family resemblance – people in a family do not always resemble each other in the same way.

So when we are looking at things we can call fascism, they will probably not all be the same in the same way. Italian Fascism was not identical to German Nazism. Mussolini was not Hitler. Spanish and Hungarian fascism were different. In an earlier age, Mussolini might even become regarded as a national hero, along with the Medicis etc.

So there is a family of points which they may, or may not have in common, and which they may have in different degrees. The more of these points they share strongly, the more they have in common and the more ‘ideally’ fascist they are.

Fascism involves

Authoritarianism.

People must be loyal to the leader and the party. The leader knows what is best for you. Discipline must be maintained. Disobedience and disagreement will be punished.

The glory of the leader

The leader has mystical powers of genius. People may not understand his reasons but the reasons will be completely sure. You could follow them if you had equal genius. Faith in the leader is required. [If you don’t share that faith the leader can look crazy].

The leader is chosen by God, or some other mystical force like Fate, Destiny, or National spirit. The leader is the exemplary force of the people and the Nation.

Positions in government are allocated by loyalty to the leader, because loyalty and obedience is paramount.

Contradicting the leader is close to blasphemy.

Religion

Fascism is not anti-religion at all. It supports religions which support it and its policies, declare it to be good and the will of God, and justify the fascist hierarchy and heroic striving to be a better part of that hierarchy. As with everything, religious people who challenge them will be suppressed.

Nationalism

The home Nation is supreme and better than any other nation. It is inherently good, and its real culture has no flaws. If there are things/processes the leader or party declares to be flaws this comes from the power of degenerate others, who must be confined, deported, removed or killed. With the degenerates and other enemies of the leader, or Party, heroically removed, then the nation will be restored to its true glory. It will be Great Again.

Heroism

Heroes are prepared to suffer and lay down their lives for the nation and the leader. Heroism is the great calling for men in particular, but women who have huge numbers of children, and devote themselves to family and nation are also heroes. The nation and the leader are one. Disagreements with the leader are displays of degeneracy (lack of heroism), or deliberate subversion. Heroism in the service of the leader is the supreme virtue.

Racism

Certain people are ideal representatives of the real people of the Nation, by skin colour, facial structures etc. They are superior by way of birth. Other people are ideal representatives of degenerate races, who pollute the blood of the dominant race. They must be confined, deported, removed or killed.
Nothing should be done to further racial equality because racial inequality is a fundamental truth and a real basis of life.

Eventually inferior races will be enslaved, die out or be helped to die out

Sexism

Women and men are completely different creatures. Women exist for the pleasure of superior males, and to bear children. This makes women content and families strong. Women who want a different life are degenerate and threaten the stability of the nation. and must be confined, deported, removed or killed.

Lives of superior race fetuses are far more important than the lives of women.

Hatred of Degeneracy

Disagreement with the leader or a lack of heroic enthusiasm for the leader is a mark of degeneracy and physical and spiritual corruption and decay. Degeneracy must be purged. It is vile.

Prime examples of degeneracy are people who do not embrace their heterosexual gender roles, the more vile and inferior races and mentally or physically deficient people even if of the superior race.

Degenerates are people who lead us to revert to the primal and unheroic slime.

Scapegoating

Fascism depends on purging enemies within. Everything that goes wrong is the fault of degenerate and evil people, who are not the ideal loyal race, gender or politics. In reality, they must belong to a fairly non-powerful group in the Nation, so they can be destroyed with ease, but they are portrayed as powerful and corrupting. Everyone is to be unified in hating the scapegoat. When the scapegoat group is purged, it is probable that another degenerate group will made to replace them, to keep the unity forged going.

Life

True life is obedience. Obedience via one’s free will is true freedom. Dedicated obedience may lead heroes to rise up the party hierarchy to their true level. Everyone occupies the position they do because of their natural abilities or because of degenerate corruption. The latter must be purged.

The lives of those who oppose the Party or the Nation are not sacred at all. They are to be exterminated.

Militarism

Heroism for the party is valued. Beating up opponents is valued. Being in pro-party militias is good.
Military order is good. Everyone must obey their superior without question as long as the instructions do not conflict with the leaders.

Fascists will increase military spending even if cutting spending on everything else.

Eventually the nation will have to reveal its destiny in war and conquest as God plans. The best system must rule its neighbours because of the power of destiny and superiority.

Suspension of Elections

Fascists are suspicious of elections. The only genuine elections are the ones that they win. Eventually they will suspend elections, as elections give the forces of degeneracy a way back in. They might have votes to determine the leader’s acclaim, and the leader will get at least 95% of the vote, but that’s it. The need for elections is essentially a liberal fallacy. Being voted out is an impossibility in a fair system as the leader knowns the people, and they know him, and could not vote him out.

Riches

The rich elites and corporations who support and fund the Party are treasures. They will receive cheap and disciplined labour and regulations favourable to them.
However, they must stay obedient to the leader to maintain their positions. While personal and business profit is expected, business is for the good of the leader and the nation.
The rich initially think they chose and control the party but they soon find out that the party cannot be challenged. It has a life of its own, but they generally accommodate.

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There may be other features of fascism, but these seem to be the basic points. The more some movement has of them, the more strongly identifiable as Fascist it is.

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Making America Great Again

November 9, 2024

I have no idea what this slogan means, because President Trump never seems to explain it. It is probably appealing to people because it sounds good and has no content to disagree with.

However, in Agenda 47, his speeches and past behaviour, he does explain, or demonstrate, the means of getting there, which might be more controversial, and suggest what he means by ‘great’.

To him US greatness is brought about by:

1. Increasing prices and inflation by raising tariffs. This may start a ‘tariff war’ in which other nations put tariffs on US imports and harm US export markets. The upside is that US companies may abandon their capital invested in other countries and come back to the USA, or perhaps they may think the tariffs against US exports will cancel the US market out. We don’t know – we just know inflation will increase.

2. Giving corporations and hyper-rich people even bigger tax cuts, because they are the important people in the USA. Everyone else is perhaps useful for voting in corporate power and providing cheap labour, but without any other value.

3. Getting rid of regulations that stop companies from injuring workers, poisoning communities or harming the planetary systems. Making sure no business, especially any associated with Donald Trump, can ever be convicted of fraud.

4. Preventing shareholders and businesses doing anything about climate change, while handing climate policy over to oil companies.

5. Getting rid of the minimum wage so labour is as cheap in the US as in China or Bangladesh and can compete.

6. Getting rid of Affordable Healthcare and replacing it with something more profitable for companies. Making sure that you can only get vaccinated if you leave the US.

7. Scrap 2 trillion dollars from social services and regulatory enforcement, to make sure people have to work even if they are 90, and to stop the State interfering with corporate activities unless those activities impact the President harmfully. These cutbacks help provide the funds for corporate tax cuts. Musk admits this will hurt ordinary Americans, but the imagined future greatness justifies the acts.

8. Making sure that Donald Trump does not get prosecuted or convicted of any crime at all, no matter what that crime is. Ordering those he appoints to head the FBI and the DoJ to drop all and any charges against him, while proclaiming the charges to be political only.

9. Making sure that the FBI and DoJ go after anyone who has disagreed with, or will disagree with, Donald Trump, to bring harmony and agreement to the US.

10. Deregistering or continually suing media that does not 100% support Donald Trump all the time, as they are clearly unpatriotic. This gets rid of those scum who accuse the President of misrepresenting reality, and stops people worrying about what is being done, what mistakes are being made, and what climate events are happening and the lack of government response.

11. Stopping climate and weather research, as they just make things worse and cause people to worry, or think that maybe we should not be mining more fossil fuels.

12. Getting rid of all people working for the government who might not be completely obedient to President Trump. Loyalty to the Constitution and the USA should obviously be secondary to loyalty to President Trump and to Republican ideology.

13. Arguing the President can terminate, or ignore, the Constitution. It is an old document that does not recognize the need for absolute Presidential power.

14. Making sure to give pro-Trump Christians control of State apparatus, as the USA is a Christian nation, built on Christian principles, and subservient to Christian power (apart from the President of course). Christians who don’t support Trump are atheists, heretics or demon possessed.

15. Hitting sexual deviants as hard as possible to get rid of lesbians, gays, trans people and so on. They probably should be burnt alive to please the Christians, and make America Straight Again.

16. Making sure more women die of complications in pregnancy, by valuing the fetus more than the mother.

17. Deporting tens of millions of “illegals”, many of whom probably do not have anywhere to go back to. This will require rounding people up with armed force (it will be bloody, said Trump), setting up camps to store them, hundreds of millions in transport unless cattle trucks and ships are used. Non-white people will need to make sure they always have identity or citizenship papers, or they may be picked up (and their papers lost). Americans will get used to armed bands rounding people up, so it won’t be noticeable when the Democrats and RINOs go.

18. Building trust and respect overseas by abandoning allies, as was done with those Afghans friendly to the US, Kurds and so on.

19. Handing Ukraine over to Putin and supporting Putin’s expansion of Russia.

20. Helping Netanyahu slaughter Palestinians and start a war with Iran as this will bring about Armageddon and the final days and please the right-Christian electorate.

21. Cuddle up to dictators to preserve world peace and discuss how to bring order to the USA and get rid of undesirables. Become part of the Axis of Evil as that is really cool.

22. Find new ways for Donald Trump to profiteer from Taxpayers. The boarding secret service people at Trump properties at maximum price is wearing a bit thin.

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