Fascist Tea Parties

“Elon Musk is really doing an incredible job educating the public about how capitalists end up aligning with fascists to maintain their wealth and limit the power of the working classes.” @maxberger

Truth. Here’s the thing: if all the rhetoric was true then these billionaires wouldn’t need to sell their soul to today’s Republican party. They could pay their fair share of taxes, knowing that they can go back out in the free market, pull up their bootstraps, and make it happen again. Or just sit back and wait for trickle down economics to make its way down to them… Right. The American economy trickles these days in much the same way the Colorado River still reaches Mexico. The insatiable greed along the way prevents most of us from ever seeing a drop.

Speaking of Mexico, if Trump gets back into the White House, and Project 2025 comes to fruition, I might just move there. Not to be all doom and gloom, but Agenda 47 (The same thing as Project 2025— Trump changed the name to imply he will be the 47^th—and last! president this country sees.) outlines a bleak future for everyone who isn’t a sycophant. And if it really comes down to fight or flight, in my younger days I would not have hesitated to join the fray, but now “I said, but I’m tired.” -George Thoroughgood

I’m tired of watching corporations like Amazon climb their money piles while using our tax money (a.k.a. the US postal service) to do it. I’m tired of the media being so scripted I have to get my news from Jon Stewart on the Comedy Channel. And I’m really tired of watching the Republican party pretend that Trump isn’t a ridiculous tool for a fascist fairy tale. At this point, the Democrats could put up practically anyone and I’d vote for them. My preference would be Harris/Buttigieg, but I’m not sure the old blue-blazer guard is ready to smash through the privileged patriarchy domed ceiling like younger voters are.

That’s okay. Surely, we can find someone who’s willing and sane and able. How about The Rock or Samuel L. Jackson? I will vote Team Blue no matter what because in my formative years Reagan had Alzheimer’s while in office, and we all realized that the position is more of a figurehead, really. It’s the people surrounding the president you gotta watch.

Most Americans who haven’t fallen so far down the Trumphole that they can’t see the light of day, just want a sane and moderate leader to represent us in the world; someone who will try to keep the peace and trade agreements alive. But a scary percentage of this country is living in a dream-state similar to Alice in Wonderland, except instead of enjoying a psychedelic tea party with a caterpillar, they are drinking the Nationalist Kool-Aid put out by Paul Weyrich, a man on a mission to shred the Constitution. https://www.badfaithdocumentary.com

Meanwhile, our billionaire-in-a-white-hat, Bill Gates is spending his money to re-invent butter without animal or plant matter. Yep, while orphans scour trash heaps in Kenya for their daily bread, Bill’s more focused on buttering his own toast. Savor is a company working to bring us The Jetsons-like food technology, and using Gates money, they have “developed a process that involves taking carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heating them up, and oxidizing them to trigger the separation of fatty acids and then the formulation of fat.” https://newatlas.com/technology/savor-butter-bill-gates/

Welcome To Fruita. Sometimes I feel like I’m the one sitting at a tea party in the woods with a bunch of lunatics throwing teacups and cake, talking at no one and laughing at nothing. So, this is how it happens, I think to myself. This is how an empire eats itself. This is how a society sits at their fancy place setting, sipping their chamomile, and watches the village burn to the ground.

Here are three things we can all do to fight fascism in the United States of America:

File an IRS 13909 violation form for the Heritage Foundation, EIN # 23-7327730 re: Project 2025.

Check on our fellow party goers (neighbors) to see how they’re faring.

Vote.