As I was saying. But this has to be “broke down” to correctly understand what is taking place in Israel in far-right circles, and in their allied National Conservative Movement in the U.S. Since the 1950s in the US, vociferous arguments were made from the “Right” against Judicial Review, on the claim it interfered with the “Absolute Majoritarian” principle, which I’ve shared information on in the past (which I assume no one looked at, as it quoted a principal influencer of Trumpism). That argument continues to be made by “Originalists” on the Right, like Bill Barr who even explained it in detail to a Hillsdale College audience, which predictably cheered him when he called for looking to the so-called "Philadelphia Constitution” before that damned, disruptive First Amendment had been added, under James Madison’s influence after he broke with his Federalist Papers collaborator on the issue of a Bill of Rights (which I hold dear). That anti-“Rights” argument is central to the National Conservative theorist, and Israeli settler, Yoram Hazony as well, whose NatCon colleagues hold him and his extreme Right ideology so dear. These terms need to be “defined” under the correct category of political theory, as these term’s definitions may vary among political actors. Here, what is being substituted for what is ordinarily thought of as “democracy,” are ideas derived from Rousseau’s “General Will” theory of democracy. Which can accurately be called: "Fascist Democracy," as the attached files show, with one a proponent of such “democracy." I have pointed out, and been derided for, that this kind of “Democratic Majoritarianism” was first put forward in the U.S. by so-called “Conservatives” creating a National Security State Ideology, which was in fact, drawing upon the same “theoretical sources” as our recently defeated enemies, principally, Thomas Hobbes and Machiavelli. But with Ayn Rand, drawing in just like our enemies had, Nietzsche. Then Leo Strauss entered the scene and duplicitously, “mined” ideas of the “Ancients” which were in fact those of the original “Fascists,” the Spartans. But using the voice of Socrates and/or Plato, to present them as "democratic.” Read The Republic for that, and I.F. Stone’s “The Trial of Scocrates.” But these files show the “theory” underlying such political thought, with the latter two opposing it. |
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One would think there would be a thunderous outcry at seeing Israel take the final step into all-out “Fascist Democracy.” Certainly the BDS Movement understands what that means. But they have largely been “neutralized.” By whom, you ask? Why, by the Koch organizations, of course, whose long-term "strategy” becomes ever more apparent, even while they drop a dollar or two on some sound issue, like ostensibly being “antiwar,” while at the same time, “neutralizing” those “Rule of Law” elements in society, like BDS. And so long as they do a “little bit,” anti-war people don’t complain that they do a “huge bit” to promote the oligarchical, pro-war ideology they do of the party they support. I used to meet at the Liberty Tavern on Wilson Blvd. with a few people who were antiwar at the time, with one of them of the CATO Institute who wrote more vociferously than almost anyone against the Iraq War. Which he believed was the cause of his being fired from CATO. Whether or not that was true, I do know that on the one hand, they, CATO, “slightly” oppose war, ever so slightly, and on the other hand, they overwhelmingly support the pro-war side, to include opposing the BDS Movement as they did in so many states in which BDS was basically criminalized. As if Koch organization were an active, extension, of the IDF/Mossad.
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