{"id":2128,"date":"2005-02-06T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-06T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2005-02-06T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-06T19:24:00","slug":"fertile-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/02\/06\/15\/24\/fertile-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Fertile Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw a thread in MeFi<\/a>, where some conservatives have, apparently, belatedly realised that there is a definite slide towards authoritarianism AKA fascism afoot within the USA. And that they are the main enablers. The article notes: I dont think there are yet real fascists in the administration, but there is certainly now a constituency for them<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

You know, Hitler didn’t spring de novo<\/i> into control of Germany in 1933 with the Gleichschaltung<\/em>, or “reorganizing”. Weimer<\/a> had been sliding into authoritarianism for 5 years or so, and then effectively ceased to function as a parliamentary democracy in 1930, when Hindenburg<\/a> took to issuing edicts to rule by decree. Increasingly unscrupulous Chancellors used their fiat powers<\/a> more and more freely until 1933, when the last vestiges of liberal democracy were swept aside. In any case, Brning<\/a>‘s government-by-decree from 1930 to 1932 was incredibly regressive, endorsing rightist social policies, implementing almost complete de-regulation, and cutting most social spending while raising taxes enormously on the poor and middle-classes but leaving the aristos and property owners untouched.<\/p>\n

Papen<\/a> and his sometimes allies the far-right Catholic Centre Party<\/a> had flirted with fascism, orchestrated coups against some left-wing Lnder <\/em>governments, and managed to de-criminalise the SA (which strengthened the NSDAP<\/a> immensely during 1932-1933). And of course, when he became effectively powerless, Papen lobbied for Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor<\/a>, obviously hoping to use the Nazi muscle to stifle Papen’s opponents. The DNVP<\/a> party also allied with the Nazis during Weimar and was instrumental in helping to pass Hitler’s legal coup, the Enabling Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The widespread public acceptance of Fhrerprinzip <\/em>was devised by the Nazis and sold to the public as a way of cutting through the plodding bureacracy and pointlessly separated police and judicial powers that were held to have weakened the Republic’s attempts to combat economic malaise and domestic\/foreign terrorism.<\/p>\n

Brand new we’re retro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw a thread in MeFi, where some conservatives have, apparently, belatedly realised that there is a definite slide towards authoritarianism AKA fascism afoot within the USA. And that they are the main enablers....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}