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America Has Always Been a Fascist State and The 6th of January Is Its Greatest Proof
It’s time to acknowledge the truth.
At a time when vast swathes of the globe were deep in the throes of a once-in a-lifetime pandemic, Wednesday the 6th of January 2021, seemed like a normal winter’s day. But by the end of proceedings on that fateful day, what we saw would remain forever seared into our collective memories.
The images which were beamed live around the world, showed America’s seat of power easily breached by a near exclusively white mob, dead set on ensuring that the smooth transition power never held.
This was a carefully coordinated campaign. An insurrection. A coup d’etat unfolding right before our very eyes. And one which was backed by a leader, who had spoken to white fears in a way in which Nixon, Reagan, Wilson, and Clinton would have been very proud.
To those who were watching, the wrong questions were abound: How could this be? What brought this about in the world’s greatest democracy?
But the answers lie in America’s sordid history.
A history which is replete with coups, assassinations, violence, genocide and a schizophrenic quest for control, which has unleashed the very worst traits of humanity on the most vulnerable and powerless across several…