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Published: 20 December 2020

The 'Fascist' Label and Its Misuse.

Fascism is as far left as Communism. Both are socialism’s children.

“Fascist” is one of the most common terms utilized to brand one’s political enemies. This phenomenon has been aggrandized to epic proportions given its immersion in popular culture. While most people or groups who employ it know extraordinarily little about Fascism, they understand all they need to know and it is that it has negative connotations. The term has become atomically weaponized, primarily, by the left to describe, well, basically anyone they do not agree with. However, some on the right, most likely to score politically correct points, have also succumb to the temptation and throw jabs with it every once and a while.

The truth is that its misuse demonstrates the high level of political illiteracy that exists. Some radical left-wing groups, like Antifa, even have it embedded in their name: “antifascism”. Yet, it should surprise no one that just as so few have bothered to read Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels, it is likely that they never even heard of Giovanni Gentile, Fascism’s intellectual overseer. This nescient charade of concept and language manipulation, if consciously confronted, would surprise many.  

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Published: 17 December 2020

A 2021 Contested Election?

The matter of a contested election is not a novelty in American politics. It must be emphasized, however, that not all contested electoral processes have qualified for a contested election.

Donald J. Trump could join the ranks of Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams on January 6th, 2021.  The United States Constitution in Article Two, Section 1, Clause 3, later modified by the 12th Amendment in 1804, calls for a process known as a “contested election”. This procedure addresses the problem raised when a presidential or vice-presidential candidate has not obtained enough electoral votes in an election. At that point, in the case of a contested presidential election, it calls for the House of Representatives to hold a special election to cast one vote per state for one of the candidates, thereby electing the nation’s chief executive.

Why might this obscure constitutional mechanism be relevant now? Unbeknown to some (or many), the 2020 presidential election is, in fact, being disputed. Contested presidential elections in the United States are not new. They go back as far as 1796 and have occurred, in total, on six previous occasions (1796, 1800, 1824, 1860, 1876 and 2000). Additionally, there have been elections, that while not technically disputed, certainly were tainted with questionable integrity issues such as with Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison in 1888, and in 1960, the election of Richard Nixon versus John F. Kennedy. 

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Published: 16 December 2020

The Poison of Identity Politics.

If the task is to lessen racial prejudices and alleviate disheartening statistics of poverty, income, fatherless families and crime within black American communities, the focus needs to change.

Francis Key Scott, the author of the poem used as the lyrics for the national anthem of the United States, “The Star-Spangled Banner”, would be appalled to hear how this patriotic song depicting the success of the United States during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812, was demoted recently in the Michigan State capitol before the Electoral College proceedings.

The anthem as identity politics

The Michigan State Senate found it fitting to play, both the country’s national anthem and the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice”. The notion of equating these two anthems, debases many principles, chiefly being the doctrine of equality. 

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Published: 14 December 2020

Fraud as a New Electoral Modus Operandi.

Civility, law and order, and the legitimation that honest elections bestow, has now been dealt a massive blow with the malfeasance witnessed here.

The Trump administration, the Republican Party, and private institutions and individuals have sought relief from the courts to impune the gross electoral irregularities of the 2020 election in at least six key battleground states. These challenges have, for the most part, not achieved the desired results of the petitioners. Democrats, their mass and social media operatives, the techno tyrants, and some never-Trump Republicans have claimed victory. Regarding the argument that in the judicial realm, these petitions have been dismal for the Trump team, this is clearly the case. However, on the more paramount question of the systemic electoral anomalies in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada, the charges of fraud have not been disproven or debunked. 

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