Antifa is nothing. It is either controlled opposition, or a tiny organization. I'm thinking the 'anti-Fascism' Long referred to is most fitted by the term "The Resistance" that was used by some establishment legislators and media pundits to describe themselves and their anti-Trump efforts. The French Resistance was genuinely anti-Fascist…
Antifa is nothing. It is either controlled opposition, or a tiny organization. I'm thinking the 'anti-Fascism' Long referred to is most fitted by the term "The Resistance" that was used by some establishment legislators and media pundits to describe themselves and their anti-Trump efforts. The French Resistance was genuinely anti-Fascist. But legislators and media today, working to protect the establishment, are working to protect the surveillance state, military-industrial complex, and corporate machine that: manages our war machine, killing millions over seas via drone strikes, air strikes, proxy wars, and sanctions; manages our prison complex (2 million + Americans in prison, cops shooting dead over 1,000 per year), and now manages the increasingly expanding surveillance and media censorship state (anti-disinformation'). If Trump had an organized army of black shirts beating people to death in basements then he might be the fascist; but as we saw during the 2016 and 2020 campaigns, the establishment is actually much more comfortable with Trump than with a Bernie Sanders, and given that choice, would choose Trump again. The true great purveyor of violence is still as MLK said: the US government. And when we have people like George Bush coming onto 'Liberal' media outlets like NPR to give favorable sound bites, and when Liz Cheney becomes the darling of the Democrats, and Nancy Pelosi saying "We need a strong Republican Party" then I feel comfortable saying the merger is complete between the party establishments. So 'The Resistance' and the 'Anti-Disinformation' organizations are I believe the coming-into-being of the sense of Long's prediction.
Antifa is nothing. It is either controlled opposition, or a tiny organization. I'm thinking the 'anti-Fascism' Long referred to is most fitted by the term "The Resistance" that was used by some establishment legislators and media pundits to describe themselves and their anti-Trump efforts. The French Resistance was genuinely anti-Fascist. But legislators and media today, working to protect the establishment, are working to protect the surveillance state, military-industrial complex, and corporate machine that: manages our war machine, killing millions over seas via drone strikes, air strikes, proxy wars, and sanctions; manages our prison complex (2 million + Americans in prison, cops shooting dead over 1,000 per year), and now manages the increasingly expanding surveillance and media censorship state (anti-disinformation'). If Trump had an organized army of black shirts beating people to death in basements then he might be the fascist; but as we saw during the 2016 and 2020 campaigns, the establishment is actually much more comfortable with Trump than with a Bernie Sanders, and given that choice, would choose Trump again. The true great purveyor of violence is still as MLK said: the US government. And when we have people like George Bush coming onto 'Liberal' media outlets like NPR to give favorable sound bites, and when Liz Cheney becomes the darling of the Democrats, and Nancy Pelosi saying "We need a strong Republican Party" then I feel comfortable saying the merger is complete between the party establishments. So 'The Resistance' and the 'Anti-Disinformation' organizations are I believe the coming-into-being of the sense of Long's prediction.
Thanks for taking the time to explain. I've always suspected today's Antifa is controlled opposition.