America is a Fascist State

I never thought I’d say these words, and certainly no one wants to hear it (least of all me), but it’s true and it needs to be said – because pretending that it’s not is just making it worse.

Now, why do I think this? Let’s go through the checklist:

• Single party controls all branches of government
• Government policy of purging people it doesn’t like (mass deportations)
• Secret police (in the form of ICE) used to terrify the populace into silence (and doubling down on the “secret” part by hiding their faces with masks)
• Attacking and de-humanizing anyone who disagrees with the party (both civilians and people in government who are not with the party – look at all the members of Congress who have been sued, threatened with legal action, or called “traitors”)
• State controlled media (FOX News, Truth Social, Twitter/X, companies firing people/censoring speech based on government influence)
• Military used against civilians (national guard deployments to cities like LA, Portland, etc.)
• Murdering people in broad daylight with no accountability

This has gone well beyond “a few bad apples in government” – this is a subversion of a formerly free and democratic government. Like most fascist states, of course it tries to keep up the pretense of being a free and democratic society, but it’s all just an act, a sham performance to fool the ignorant (or willingly ignorant).

Some people will still try to deny this, though, pointing at people who continue to resist and how some states and cities are pushing back with their own local laws. But this is all fundamentally irrelevant to my point – some pockets of resistance don’t change the fact, and a state doesn’t have to be 100% fascist top-to-bottom to be “fascist.” For all intents and purposes, the Federal government of the United States of America is fascist.

Continuing to deny that America is a Fascist State is the same as sticking your head in the sand, or putting your fingers in your ears and shouting “la la la la, everything is fine.”

This is not something that can be solved easily, either. This is no longer a case of “well, just wait until the midterms or the next election.” We have already seen what happens when people vote against the party – cries of election fraud or invalid results, and refusal to recognize or seat the newly elected representatives. This is not a surface-level problem anymore; it is systemic; it is now deeply embedded and just electing a few new people isn’t going to “fix” anything.

The first step is always admitting you have a problem, and America has a problem, and it is time to admit it, and time to start start fixing it – and it is going to be hard. It is going to require both standing up and voting out every single fascist supporter (without fail). It is going to require then deeply changing the laws, customs, and traditions of our government to prevent this sort of thing from happening again – because this was not a coup, or a violent takeover, it was done “legally.” This was done using loopholes and a carefully crafted plan to exploit weaknesses in our basic system of government. Like the horror movie trope, “the killer is in the house.”

The enemy in this case attacked us through the basic arrangement of our lives – sowing distrust and driving wedges in the gaps to drive us apart, to “divide and conquer.” And despite having the largest military in the world, America fell to this enemy as easily as a child knocking over a sand castle as the tide comes in.

It is often said that bullies only have as much power as you give them, and a fascist government is, essentially, just a “government by bullies,” so let us stand up to the bullies, refuse to do what they ask, don’t give them the power they crave, and deny them the authority they claim to have. Even though the bullies we are standing up to wear the clothes of legitimate power (uniforms and badges, official sounding titles and fancy suits), we know that they are nothing but bullies – wolves in sheeps’ clothing – and because this is a fascist government we are standing up to, not an American government, we are not only right in standing up against it, we are morally obligated to do so.

I say “we” a lot here, because like an entire classroom standing up to a few bullies, it is only by banding together that we can defeat them.

“United we stand, divided we fall.”