Subject: Most worried
From: Demetrio Fábrega <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:00:11 -0500

Dear Sir:
This past week has left me very worried.  Since Friday night I have done nothing but  think, go over books, comb available contents of the Internet, and I have come to the conclusion that all the literature in the United States about authoritarianism is a willing or accidental disguise of the true phenomenon.  The problem is the same as it was found in the people of several nations, what was called Nazism or Fascism or Falange (the Spanish Phalanx).

You will find below 896 words describing this quite clearly and some examples and a humble suggestion that you try to see the proper pictures of fascism in today’s meetings wherever available.

If you look at Hitler’s movements of hands and arms in a speech before masses, or Mussolini’s movements or Ante Pavelic’s (the Croatian dictator from 1941 to 1945), you will definitely find a great similarity with Trump’s and surprisingly enough with Sanders.  They are the movements of a father scolding, warning, advising, interpreting reality, telling the child what to do and what not to do.  The only way to resist domination is reasoning, but the functional illiterates cannot reason properly.  

It is the same propensity to become pawns of rhetoric as was present in the masses in Germany, Italy, Spain, Croatia.  Incidentally, education all over the world has erased the presence of fascism and Nazism in England, with Robert Baden-Powell and Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. Mosley created the British Union of Fascists as a vehicle for his economic vision of Britain as a Keynesian economic state, with an emphasis on deficit spending. After a period of initial popularity, his movement eventually became a haven for lunatic anti-Semites and fringe members of society. He asserted that “modern Dictatorship” is “Leadership resting on the enthusiastic acceptance of the people, and could not endure without their support.”  In Mosley’s system, this form of Dictatorship was to be embodied in a powerful executive figure called “The Minister.” This person was to be responsible for most of the government, but not in a despotic sense.   

In reference to the BUF, he warned Mosley that “it is always the more active element which colours the whole.” His warning proved to be prophetic. It was not Mosley’s carefully outlined fascist policies or his vision of an industrial utopia which eventually garnered attention. It was a reputation for violence at rallies that became the BUF’s trademark. At early rallies, groups of strong young men served as stewards. When people came to heckle Mosley, these men were responsible for ensuring the continuance of the rally, often by forcibly removing the offenders. 

After the introduction of the BUF’s black uniform, the stewards became popularly known as “Blackshirts.” Mosley’s Blackshirt stewards were instrumental in maintaining order at BUF rallies. However, the public perceived them as little more than violent thugs. In his autobiography, Mosley claimed that his “thugs” were necessary to prevent disruptions at BUF rallies. Still, as more angry people came to rallies to start trouble, Mosley‟s men became known for their fighting ability. Tough, athletic young men began policing public BUF events, dressed in the “Blackshirt” uniform. Their slogan: “We never start fights, we only finish them.”

In France, the modern "far right" or radical right grew out of two separate events of 1889: the splitting off in the Socialist International of those who chose the nation and the culmination of the "Boulanger Affair", which championed the demands of the former Minister of War, General Georges Boulanger. The Dreyfus Affair provided one of the political division lines of France. Nationalism, which had been before the Dreyfus Affair a left-wing and Republican ideology, turned after that to be a main trait of the right-wing and, moreover, of the far right. A new right emerged, and nationalism was appropriated by the far right who turned it into a form of ethnic nationalism, itself blended with anti-Semitism, xenophobia, anti-Protestantism and anti-Masonry.  The Le Pen are very close relatives of Trump, although they are much better educated.

The possible defense and the lines of attack have to be something like publicly insisting in explanations, in understandable speech, in reasoned sentences, like

Why do you say that? Why do you repeat the same thing over and over tonight, and over again tonight to the same audience?   How are you going to do that?  But do not fail to answer, do not evade the question.  Say why.  Say how.  Tell the people how.  Tell your followers when is it that you will be able to do that once you are in the White House.  Don’t evade the question by saying that you will do it when you are President.  Tell us how.  Tell us in detail what will you do, how you will do it.  I you don’t say it, if you don’t answer, you may not be lying but you are cheating, you are trying to fool the people. Why do you say the same thing in the same words, hundreds and hundreds of times.  Do your followers know that the Nazi propaganda used to do precisely that?  Their propaganda leader Goebbels is famous for saying that if you repeat a lie a thousand times it becomes truth for the people.  Do they know that those despots spoke moving their arms and their hands like a father moves them to scold a child?  Are you convinced that your followers are stupid fools, that they will believe anything you say? Are you sure that the people of the United States cannot reason, that Americans cannot tell who is lying, who is cheating? Do you think that the people are in a trance, that they are not completely conscious, that they don’t control what they think, that they do not grasp what they hear?

May God assist you in this national trance.  In a way, we may be facing a complete change in mankind.  After all, China now has billionaires, Spain cannot elect a government and Greeks don’t know what to do with Greece.

Sincerely worried,

D. Fábrega