Democracy Now: Michael Moore on Fascism, Rights and the Precipice

I feel Michael Moore is like the Fool, he speaks truth to power and provides insights as a warning.  I feel truth in what he is sharing. I feel the mask is coming off as I am starting to see what I hadn’t thought about, the right wing and fascism.  I met a woman recently who had been a hostage and taken to Siberia as her husband owned oil wells.  She is aware of totalitarianism and felt concern for Australia given Smart meters.  The concern here is surveillance which is a mechanism of profiling people, surveilling without a warrant or crime.  The KGB used to watch people, there were spies listening in on conversations, rounding up people who are against the State and seeing enemies.  I remember sitting at Pol Pot’s Tuol Prison and walking through the torture chambers, looking at the photos of ordinary people who had been killed and seeing a sign saying that people couldn’t scream when they were tortured.  I sat very still outside.  I reflected deeply on totalitarianism and how it evokes paranoia and enemies.

I feel fascism and control as deep fear, if it is unchecked then it escalates to the point of genocide.  Democracy even as a perception was an approach that respected diversity and provided checks and balances. When the latter starts to disappear fascism rises.

What I can share is that it is not true power, it appears that way but always it falls as it is not sustainable universally speaking.  It is like the bully in the playground who frightens others, intimidates and is violent to warn off any dissent or opposition. Yet what I feel is when you feel powerlessness the bully turns up.  Something to contemplate.

Fahrenheit 11/9