Fascist "Patriotism"

The definition of patriotism is the love for or devotion to one's country. The notion of country is very vague and ambiguous arousing several questions; is it the land, is it the people, is it our forefathers or perhaps the Indians?! There is no reference whatsoever to the administrators of one's country. What if your country went through turmoil in time and had all different administrators allotting different philosophies? One's love for his/her country is the love of the land and it's human community that may or may not include your forefathers.

I used the quote signs in the title because this kind of patriotism is divisive, hateful and perjurious by definition and makes most people uneasy, intimidated and fearful. This kind of patriotism takes away the most basic freedoms enjoyed by free societies. This is the patriotism that singles out your children in school, if they wear inappropriate tee-shirt (with a peace sign) or your house in a suburban neighborhood (if the flag is not flying for the war), you would lose your job if the corporation is supporting the ruling government and you voice opposition, get evicted from your apartment if you actively and revealingly seek freedom and democracy because your landlord is a contributor to the governing party; be thoroughly searched if your skin is a dubious color at airport security, get beat up for publicizing your dissent to government policy , get deprived of truth in news broadcasting and be labeled as "liberal baby-killer" "traitor" "un-American" "unpatriotic" every time you voice opposition or criticism of your government.

The enforcers of this patriotism successfully use the war to propagate their agenda. The "troops" are the "sacred cow" of their argument to impose unpopular issues on the people. Any voiced opposition or criticism of your government is "against" the troops; it is oriented toward simple minded people (the enforcers of so called "patriotism") the uninformed that are aroused by slogans without discernment. These are the ruling party's homeland troops. You see them all over, at work, at the local supermarket, on television, in bars voicing their cowardly opinions to "nuke" anybody and everybody that disagrees with them. All in the name of God, freedom and democracy.

This type of patriotism was born in Germany in the 1930's. It was initiated by Adolf Hitler. Hitler was not German, he was Austrian from Vienna. A veteran of World War I, devastated and humiliated by the defeat of German-Austro-Hungarian alliance and the shame of defeat was too much for Hitler to handle. He refers to this anguish and pain of defeat in his book "Mein Kampf". His patriotism was born out of pain and a sense of humiliation but became self serving on his journey to conquer the world.

Hitler developed his masterpiece character of an "evil-genius". He was intelligent, a philosopher, a masterful orator and knew how to manipulate people. The philosophy is simple:

1. name your enemy or enemies,
2. associate the enemy with a country, group of people or religion,
3. arouse hatred toward your enemy using hateful slogans,
4. induce fear in population derived from the actions of this enemy
5. start a well pretext hate based war against your enemy,
6. ally your government with religious fundamentalists to justify your actions (never forget the simple minded)
7. dispatch the "believers" to intimidate or beat up dissenters.
8. control the propaganda and media through lies to cover up the events (when events are not in your favor)
9. name your critics and dissenters as unpatriotic, traitors, treasonous.
10. empty the treasury of the country giving breaks to the wealthy and your base.
11. intimidate people from participating in elections, and rig elections
12. associate critics and dissenters with homosexuals, communists, abortionist and liberals to quiet opposition

If you can accomplish all these rules, you will get patriotism in your country as you've never seen on the face of the earth (or perhaps once before).
This patriotism will turn your country upside down, push fathers into murderers of their sons, destroy humanity to a level that you wish you were an animal, desecrate your ancestors graves, make your mother a whore, and turn your brother into a pariah, your neighbor into spy, your law enforcement into torturer, politicians into thieves while you lose all your dignity, as your heart and soul shrink into oblivion.