The virus and protests have accelerated the corporate push for American fascism

June 22, 2020 By Andrea Widburg

For America's first 200 or so years, corporations wanted to operate free of government restraints, believing that those restraints interfered with profits and innovation. In the last two decades, though, guided by a massive influx of mid- and upper-level employees steeped in college Marxism, corporate America has decided that the government is its best friend and is working in concert with the media and the Black Lives Matter movement to squeeze ordinary Americans. J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, expanded on this profound and un-American problem in a conversation with Tucker Carlson.

One of the modern left's most spectacular tricks has been to make people believe that the Nazis were "right-wing." They were, in fact, left-wing, and their political system was a form of crony socialism.

The Nazi party's full name was the "National Socialist German Workers' Party." Where Nazi Germany differed from a hardcore communist country was that the government didn't nationalize the means of production. It allowed businesses to stay in private hands — as long as they were ultimately subordinate to the state.

The socialist system the Nazis used is "fascism." The fascist form of socialism originated in 1920s Italy under Benito Mussolini. Mussolini defined socialist fascism as "all within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."................In America, we're seeing our own version of big businesses allying with the party of total government because they see it as a way to increase profits. That's where the J.D. Vance interview comes in:

In the interview, Vance points out that big businesses, thanks to their manic virtue-signaling, have been squarely behind the riots. (The same analysis, by the way, applies to the lockdowns, which have devastated small businesses, while strengthening the big ones.)  .............. To Read More