I’ve warned about this here since at least 2008. And if you look back at my tweets nearly a decade after that (2016) I’m not mincing any words.

That crazy-sounding excerpt of text I’m tweeting out, in case it’s not clear, is literally a page from Mussolini’s infamous 1932 “The Doctrine of Fascism” (technically ghost written by fascist politician Giovanni Gentile).

And I find it actually surprising to see any likes or retweets of my tweet. It always felt like I was talking into a void on Twitter.

Nobody should be surprised by fascism in America, since it has been a huge problem since long before fascism was a common word, yet somehow people keep acting surprised by it.

I recently wrote about the U.S. Vice President in 1944 speaking on how to find and “smoke out” American fascists. Before that I wrote here several times about Nazi Germany using America’s racist laws, gas chambers and concentration camps as its blueprint for systemic oppression and tyranny.

Today I’m seeing reports that confirm this long-time problem has again reared its head, despite all the warnings.

Please don’t think this is a new problem related to some event or one election. This is a very very old problem, perhaps as old as the country itself:

I also covered this in 2019 in a post called “Why the White House Pardoned Convicted War Criminals” where I even tried to illustrate the problem:

Here you can see why America’s 1932 Presidential election was so critical to the rejection of fascism; rejection of the “strong man” propaganda spreading at that time.

There are judges in America today (notably schooled by Harvard) writing opinions that sit 180 degrees from obvious lessons of WWII (let alone Civil War), brazenly opening the door to domestic terrorism and thus fuel another rise of fascism.

Finally, in the vein of “I told you so” reporting, I’ll just leave you with another recent post of mine about a new book worth reading:

Going to War Against Fascists Earlier Prevents Late Realization That Fascism is Really Bad

Here’s a sage warning from the controversial U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace, as recorded by the Senate on April 17th, 1944:

Wallace wrote this for the New York Times, which had sent him a request to “write a piece answering the following questions”:

1. What is a Fascist?
2. How many Fascists have we?
3. How dangerous are they?

His definition basically is a Fascist combines of lust for money/power with an intensity “most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact”, such as when America First will “use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism”.

Many of his ideas sound relevant to today’s news, such as one about the Facebook executives falsely using privacy as a slogan just to conceal their selfish surveillance.

Years of twisting themselves into a pretzel to appease Trump only to have him throw Zuck into imaginary Gitmo…

The “New Deal” of Roosevelt was about building a democracy powerful enough to defeat a destructive value system of the Facebook-like monopolists and cartels who pumped up Fascism as a way to block competition.

It used to be that TV and radio broadcaster fear of the FCC was tied to its origin story under Roosevelt’s 1934 Communications Act. What better way to fight “America First” (the infamous Nazi military intelligence operation) than regulate against Nazism being promoted by monopolists like Hearst? It was no coincidence the General Counsel of the FCC in 1940 (Telford Taylor) later became Prosecution Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials.

Or as Wallace put it…

…inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us. […] It was Hitler’s claim that he eliminated all unemployment in Germany. Neither is there unemployment in a prison camp.

The above NYT article was published by Wallace two years after his very famous May 8, 1942 presentation on how to counter Germany military intelligence influence campaigns (minute 4:04).

The common man will smoke the Hitler stooges out into the open in The United States… he will destroy their influence… [using] the four freedoms enunciated by President Roosevelt… freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of the fear from secret police… and freedom from want.

New research about 16th Century America has this important insight

…we see individuals fleeing slavery who are able to hold the Spanish Empire at bay and fight them to a standstill for almost five decades — and then negotiate for their freedom and right to govern their communities…

Edmunds’ scientists apparently made Tesla very angry when the car maker failed a simple test of real-world range:

Some electric vehicles dramatically exceeded the EPA’s range estimates, while others fell short. Most notably, all five Tesla vehicles we tested missed those estimates.

Edmunds said they received an unpleasant response from Tesla as the car maker demanded a retest using special considerations and adjustments (that a zero range doesn’t actually mean zero and should be tested as a completely opaque not-zero amount).

Needless to say, Tesla was not happy with our test results, and we received a phone call. Tesla’s engineers disputed our figures.

Tesla cars, now overtly described by their engineers as based on lies (zero doesn’t mean zero) then failed the tests again.

Even allowing for the additional miles recorded after an indicated zero, only two of the six Teslas we tested would hit their EPA figures in our real-world conditions.

If that debate outcome wasn’t bad enough already (with Tesla arguing that it lies in an attempt to prove that it doesn’t lie)…

Edmunds on September 7 gave an honest and clear negative review of the Tesla “yoke” option for steering control:

…it actually feels dangerous… don’t let anybody tell you this is a good idea, I can’t believe it’s legal.

To be clear, this is a qualified review by a man with experience in a F1 car with a yoke.

He’s an expert telling us the Tesla yoke is a terrible idea, and he ends up guessing it was made only for “Twitter” noise/marketing instead of benefiting actual retail drivers.

Race cars in loops obviously aren’t turned more than slight rotation (it would be disaster at high speeds to turn too far) yet any real world driver has constant arcs over 180 degrees. The F1 has direct steering, whereas indirect steer is more functional for real-world driving.

It kind of begs the question why Tesla didn’t launch their latest attempt to stoke its base with some other fraudulent innovation like installing a “tiller” to steer it like a boat.

Come on Tesla, where’s your tiller upgrade option?

As predicted by the reviewer, despite his very careful explanations and evidence, virulent information warfare tactics over Twitter were unleashed in a stream of personal attacks with attempts to kill him as messenger.

Consumer Reports then echoed Edmunds’ findings:

Tesla’s New Steering Yoke Shows Little Benefit and Potential Safety Pitfalls

It reminds me of a disastrous flaw in Ford Mustang engineering where they built a rear beam suspension (linked instead of independent) useful only in drag racing, which ended up throwing a lot of owners into a very dangerous spin and crash.

Ford tends to make some pretty big mistakes, yet you don’t see any evidence today of the company organizing social media into highly-targeted warfare against safety advocates.

Edmunds also criticized Tesla’s engineering safety generally in the “Plaid” model calling the car a “marketing exercise to draw attention to an aging car”. And that seems true.

Tesla social media activists then pushed out a petulant “joke” about a new special safety acceleration mode being 60mph in 15 seconds, which honestly doesn’t sound like a bad idea.

Tesla is basically engaging in these information warfare tactics, engaging from a position of insecurity, to have a fan base inflame tension and disruption that discredits experts and science.

To clarify where that “joke” image comes from, JeffTutorials is an obvious Tesla disinformation account:

It all reads to me as very similar to that time Edison created an electric chair to kill people and tried to have it called “Westinghoused” (to denigrate a man far superior to him in every way).

How very odd to think that Tesla, a brilliant man who worked for the generous Westinghouse after suffering from Edison’s abusive and inhumane cheats… has his name completely hijacked by a business being run like a modern-day Edison scam.