Some of the early signs are the obscuring or downright refusal to reveal tax and health records of political candidates or appointees, the failure to divest or declare conflicts of interest, or the “joking” egging-on of supporters to inflict violence on critics, especially in the press. This sort of behavior is not unheard of in political movements in democracies, but when it becomes accepted as trivial or even acceptable from government officials, elected or appointed, there is cause for alarm.

No, we don’t have concentration camps and organized Brownshirt street violence yet, but the preliminaries are already here, and they tell me fascism is wrapping up its initial consolidation phase. A strong showing by the Right in the mid-terms will signal the go-ahead for the next step in the program. The summer of 2018 is going to be the critical time. Our future will be fully in place by this fall.

“resistance, protest, criticism, complaint, all carried with them a multiplied likelihood of the greatest punishment. Mere lack of enthusiasm, or failure to show it in public, was ‘defeatism.’

There is nothing wrong about publicly asserting your patriotism, but being EXPECTED to do so, or worse, being explicitly punished (or implicitly threatened with punishment) for not doing so, is something else again.

Everyone is compromised, everyone is diminished, everyone must make intolerable choices…

‘Resist the beginnings’
We are past the beginnings… we KNOW where this ends- the ONLY thing left is to try to turn around.

Newton’s first law is not in our favor… can the inertia of an ignorant bloodthirsty minority be overcome by the reaction of the humane decent majority?

The time for Newtons 3rd law to kick in is rapidly running out…

Sure, there are parallels, coincidences! But this time its different, isn’t it? We won’t make the same mistakes again, will we? We don’t persecute Jews, we don’t round up people into camps, we don’t assassinate people in the street or in police interrogation rooms like the Old Regime did. We do it legally, with courts and warrants. And we do it to guarantee rights and privileges we have had all long and traditionally respected: life, liberty, privacy, property.

The key is the mid-term elections. They will be the max, or the min, depending on how you think of things. They will be the inflection point, the derivative will be zero, the slope will be flat. After that the process will either come to a stop, and then slowly start to unravel, to head back to the middle. This is the last chance for the centripetal forces to take hold. Or maybe not. Maybe things will pick up speed, start to accelerate, start to go out of control. Either the nonsense will come to an end, or it will suddenly blossom into a complete nightmare.

This is the singularity. This is the point where the machine takes over, when the Frankenstein comes to life. But it will not be a living creature, or a machine of wire and silicon. It will be an administrative entity of rules and statutes and laws and instructions, one independent of its authors and creators but just as real as if it were a robot or a dinosaur. And it will only answer to its own appetites. And those who benefit (albeit briefly) from it will be the last to realize what they have unleashed on the rest of us, and on themselves, until its too late. It could go either way, but its already been decided. There is nothing we can do about it now. By November we will know what actually happened, but I’m afraid it already has. There is nothing we can do to make it happen, or to stop it. It has already been decided.

“The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.”

Man, those are chilling words.