As if to confirm what Lew wrote yesterday in his superb analysis, let’s look at Mitt Romney’s remarks at The Citadel, which is a major military college of the Empire. The following are Romney’s heartfelt sentiments and beliefs, and they are all fascist, just as was his health-care plan in Massachusetts (see here, here, and here.) Romney said
“This century must be an American century. In an American century, America has the strongest economy and the strongest military in the world. God did not create this country to be a nation of followers. America is not destined to be one of several equally balanced global powers. America must lead the world, or someone else will.”
Romney does not emphasize people as persons making their own lives and exercising their own creativity. He thinks in terms of an aggregate or collective: America. He holds “America” out as the supreme goal. “America” is the embodiment of the aspirations and hopes and dreams of every person, and each person loses his or her own identity within this image. The reality of each person recedes, the fascist fantasy of America the Powerful swells and takes over.
In Romney’s vision, time itself belongs to America, not to each one of us to use. The century becomes American. What each of does and accomplishes, our enjoyments, the beauty we find, our children, our families — this fades away and is replaced by the strength of an economy and a military. Romney urges us on as a collective in comparison to “the world.” In an implied sense, America is superior and everyone else is inferior. In strength, he sees victory.
Romney fuses state and religion. In his mind, they are one and the same. He speaks for God. He makes himself a secular prophet, telling us what God wants America to be, namely, the predominant global power and leader.
If Romney believed in freedom and choice as realities of living, even under God, he would not speak of destiny. Destiny is that which has to be and has to occur. It is the opposite of freedom.
Isn’t Romney’s belief and value system pure fascist? It cannot be mistaken for anything else.
Romney said:
“You would think that the president and the people in Washington would recognize the importance of the United States military and the need not to shrink our military budget but strengthen it…”
Romney would actualize his American vision of world dominance via the military. This is fascist through and through.
