Degree and Velocity, Not Kind

Dem acquaintances have been asking me why I say there's negligible differences between the two parties, why I say they're a uniparty with two corporate cult divisions. I could defer to Louis Hartz who said the two parties share the same "capitalist Lockean liberalism" like 60 years ago, and also defer to Lenin who said "fascism is capitalism in decay" and that "Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism," and then point out the over 700 US foreign military bases and how US currency is the petro dollar, what nations trade in. Instead, I'll touch on each group separately and make it a little more personal.

Christian Nationalism, Ethno-nationalism (especially among Caucasians), Ethnic-supremacism, Social Darwinism, Eliminationism, Herrenvolk democracy, Imperialism, these were philosophical-ideological traits Republican voters and libertarians revealed and started displaying during the 2016 primary season. Especially with the "Make America Great Again," slogan and talking about returning to the past. So when Democrats started passing around Dr. Lawrence Britt's 14 characteristics it made sense because the term that most precisely captures this constellation of views listed above is fascist, with the specific variant primarily being clerical fascism.

Capitalist liberalism, American exceptionalism, Chauvinism, Social imperialism, Gatekeeping/Electoralism, Reformism, Passive collaborationism, middle-class intellectualism, Intelligentsia chauvinism, these are the traits Democrat voters have been showing since before Biden got elected. Democrat voters, especially since the 2020 election but it goes back even further, have tried to separate themselves from and position themselves above the people they claim to serve. They push for domestic tinkering and imperial permanence, with left suppression as the party's actual political function. They push for and accept just enough reform rhetoric to defuse revolutionary pressure while materially defending capitalism, American supremacy, imperialism, and the conditions that produce fascism. They have shown no issues crossing moral or ethical redlines as long as they slap the labels of freedom, liberty, or democracy on it, as long as their comfort is not disturbed. While they have been exposing Republicans as being fascist, neo fascists and nazis, they have revealed themselves to be moderate fascists or at the very least social fascists. They even came up with their own MAGA slogan, "What can be, unburdened by what has been," talk about our present and future being freed by going back to our old ways, old policies. Different choice of rhetoric, same meaning.

They are two wings of the same capitalist fascist corporate state. One wing is the open fascist expression. Both groups share the traits of chauvinism, imperialism, Social-Darwinism, eliminationism, in group moral exemption, and herrenvolk logic. Whether it's Carter, Clinton, or Obama constantly being brought up to be praised or used as an example, or whether it's Lincoln, Reagan, or Trump, both groups have cult behaviors toward their leaders. The other is the social fascist containment mechanism that prevents the left from organizing an actual rupture with that state. Eco's, Britt's and any other source one wants to use applies to both. The difference is degree and velocity, not kind. And historically, many would argue the traits and actions displayed and enacted by the Democrats is more dangerous because it gets people to side against their interests and well-being.

I came across a snippet of Eric Beerbohm's In Our Name, The Ethics of Democracy. I had the entire thing summarized and the summary was what I basically concluded on my own. Even Harvard liberal professors indirectly called for abandoning the two parties. I don't accept voter ignorance on what the parties are anymore because it's willful ignorance.

If the violation arresting of protesters of genocide in 2024, with Democratic Leadership trying to vilify them and also telling them to "shut up because the politicians are speaking," doesn't remind people of what we saw from Republican leadership against protesters of police violence and corruption in 2020, if the fact both parties have and are sending bombs and billions of dollars to a foreign government to commit genocide, and if seeing one party support international nazis while the other supports them at home, doesn't show you just how similar the parties are, and you cross moral redlines, to where you feel guilty by association, and like you're a genocidal fascist by excusing that to vote for them, if you don't feel betrayed by both of them, with your party of choice being the bigger moral wound, if you don't feel complicit for all the wrongs done by this country over the years your party has lied to you, then you've already become them, you are fascist.

There are grassroots political organizations everywhere, every state has multiple third parties, mathematically, the PSL, Greens, American Solidarity, and Libertarian Party with their combination of write in availability and ballot access had a chance at 270, all that was needed was balls in their bucket, and 152 million Americans conservatively gave their balls to either the Democratic or Republican out of fear of losing their comfortability, that wasn't pragmatic lesser evil voting, it was resignation, defeatism, and complicity.

Let me offer these two quotes as one last attempt at redemption, let me offer them as a life line.

Fascism was never monolithic; each country developed its own variant shaped by local conditions. Historians treat them as related but distinct. As I have shown, the U.S. duopoly maps Republicans to the ‘open fascist’ style and Democrats to the ‘social/moderate’ containment style. Germany, Spain, Italy, and Japan are historical distinctions, not moral equivalences. The two U.S. parties remain tactical wings of the same system, just as the different fascist or authoritarian regimes of the 1930s–40s shared a class character despite surface differences. Their corporate structure, ballot-access barriers, and selective benefits, among other mechanics, fit that structural critique without needing the fascist label to be a perfect match. You have options away from the uniparty. It doesn’t have to be the PSL. It’s your move, stay with the fascists, or actually resist them, you don't have to be anymore complicit, and I think Beerbohm would agree with me when I say, make the call or continue to be labeled a class and species traitor.