I don't understand the fascist and neo-fascist wunderkinds, those who gleefully and with malice express their hatred of "socialism", of well-proven programs of guaranteed national health care, of well-proven programs of guaranteed national education, just to name two.

All because it cuts into their private profit.

I've been listening to slam poet Zaccheus Jackson tonight.
It isn't the kind of poetry that a fascist would engage with, on any credible level.
It has no direct "Latin America" connection, being from the sometimes very cruel Canadian north.
It is the best..

in the lives of others, they are not creative, they have nothing worth expressing, and no one wants to hear it! They have no natural intellectual curiosity, they are helplessly incapable of maintaining a human conversation, as they are unable to connect with human beings.

What they have to share always concerns greed, hatred, or other simple dead stuff with no value to anyone living.

Their expressions at the bottom of things come down to grunts, snorts, whines, whistles and an odd gagging sound. They have NEVER been enjoyed, loved by the masses, as they are basically dead inside.

Thanks for sharing these two links from this Canadian poet Zaccheus Jackson. It would be a real experience hearing him in person. I am so glad to learn about him from you.

Thanks, delrem! Your impulse to share this with progressives has been appreciated.

their jobs / workload by sowing the seeds of extremism. Their collective paranoia and craven subservience to existing wealth and influence have been stifling progress and promoting misery and hence unrest the world over.

at least since the times when I was first politically aware, in the late '60s and early '70s. Nothing has changed in that time, through administration after administration whether they promised better or worse, and it certainly hasn't changed circa 2014.

When one starts counting it up on any scale the crime hits intolerable and overload decades ago, already after millions of deaths, after whole populations put through agony.

It has ALL been the choice of the majority of US citizens, year after year, decade after decade.
The Stepford Country.

TPTB artificially narrow those choices, just as they do in elections. We get to pick between center right and far right, or between unaccountable drones and boots on the ground...all in service of TPTB, not us. The recent study that determined the US was an oligarchy was based on data fro--IIRC--1980 to 2000; during that period, "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/14