Beginning the Age of Fascism in America

Ed Encho Comments [Part II]

Ed Encho, Opednews.com

After
serving one term as Vice President, Wallace was thrown under the bus by the
moneychangers in the Democratic party and the ruling oligarchy for his
outspoken views and vision for the future - especially after a Latin American
tour during which he championed fair wages and good working conditions for
those who would in the future be deemed dangerous by the filthy thugs who run
the looter capitalist system and would be slaughtered by the thousands by U.S. supported
goons but that is a story for another time.

He was replaced by Harry Truman, a man of contradictions who was the first
world leader to use nuclear weapons on civilians, a man who launched a purge of
‘Communist sympathizers’ in the government ranks and kicked off the Cold War
with the Truman Doctrine while also pushing for desegregation in the military,
universal health care and the rights of labor with the Fair Deal. Truman also
presided over a regime that served as a midwife during the birth of the state
of Israel
and created the CIA which would later become a veritable Gestapo for Wall
Street. It’s really no wonder that Truman has been the president most often invoked by the pocket media in these troubled
times (other than the hallowed ‘Gipper’) when the current crop of amoral
charlatans and rank corporate and militarist whores seek to draw comparisons to
a former president. The great and mighty unitary executive/dictator George W.
Bush himself often tries to channel Truman (whenever it he isn’t talking to God or
the Son of Sam’s dog or whatever other voice happens to pop into his head) when
seeking justification for his global militarism and his domestic desecration of
the Constitution.

Wallace,
after being unceremoniously dumped as Commerce Secretary (a consolation
position for the former V.P.) by ‘Give ‘Em Hell’ Harry ran as a Progressive
party candidate in 1948 on a platform of ending segregation, giving voting
rights to blacks and providing universal health care – that certainly didn’t go
over with the American fascists seeking to reshape the post WW II world into a
Gilded Age style paradise. He was of course denounced as a Commie, a dangerous
leftist and a potential enemy of the nascent looter capitalist empire that
having dispatched Hitler was now moving on to an even more challenging
long-term enemy: the American working class.

Henry A. Wallace also accurately denounced the Truman Doctrine that laid the
blueprint for state sponsored repression and murder that would accompany the
Cold War and the ‘ends justify the means no matter how savage that the means
may be’ policy of rolling back Communism both abroad and at home through
subterfuge, sabotage, destabilization, intimidation, red baiting, blacklisting
and ultimately torture and death squads as “the beginning of a century of
fear”.

In
Wallace’s time he also said that: "Happily,
it can be said that as yet fascism has not captured a predominant place in the
outlook of any American section, class or religion".