1046 Patient Fascists

It’s become recognized that after the fall of the Soviet Union, Marxism in America was given free reign because it was no longer suppressed by State propaganda. What isn’t as well known is: so was Fascism. America has always had a high percentage of pre-Enlightenment thinking; never more than half of Americans truly believed in liberty, or even knew what it was, and that was with indoctrination in public institutions like schools, government & churches. Many people simply prefer to be told what to do by elites; they revel in authoritarianism, the hallmark of Fascism. Before WWII, when Fascism was in full bloom in Europe, it also found quite a following in America: William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Kennedy (JFK's father), Charles Lindbergh, John Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon (Secretary of Treasury), DuPont, General Motors, Standard Oil, Ford, ITT, Allen Dulles (head of the CIA), Prescott Bush (the Bush clan patriarch who made his fortune via oil contracts with the Nazis which financed two Bush presidencies), National City Bank, J.P. Morgan, Coca-Cola, IBM, Singer, Goodrich, Gillette, General Electric, and many ordinary Americans were fervent Fascists, some even Nazis. It’s difficult to find out just how prevalent Fascism was in America because its supporters always claimed to be anti-Communist, and that was enough for the time. Fascism was not seen to be a threat and it’s bigger than ever, just as Marxism is bigger than ever; and liberty, the foundation of U.S. Constitutional government, where people make decisions for themselves, the opposite of authoritarianism; liberty doesn’t seem to have many followers.