Ognimod

Alright, I've really tried to keep my own political opinions off my art sites for as long as I've been able to, but there are things happening in my country and in the USA, where many people I know and appreciate live, that have made me realize it's time for me to take a stand in public.

I have lived in a country ruled by a third-positionist government for almost twenty-two years.

For those of you who don't know what third-positionism is, it's a political ideology which maintains that the State should be in control of the means of production for as long as it has to be, and invest them into the welfare of the workers; the catch is that "the workers" means "pure-blooded citizens of our nation, no one else". Foreigners and people of mixed descent are not "the workers", but enemies, "the bourgeoiesie", "degenerates", whatever you'd like to call them. And you better believe Jews are counted there, too. All who aren't "the workers" must be expelled or eliminated from the great nation, or better yet, from the face of the Earth, for "treason", for having conspired to undermine the great nation with their "degeneracy". That kinda thing.

It's called "third position" because it purports to be neither left-wing nor right-wing, neither communist nor fascist, but opposed to both, and therefore, theoretically, superior to both. However, their way of opposing both, as you can see, is to be as ultra-nationalist/ultra-xenophobic/ultra-antisemitic as fascists (so anti-left) and as promoting of "the State will control the means of production in the meantime" as socialists (so anti-right). In other words, their idea of being neither left nor right is to be extremes of both at the same time. The resulting concoction is roughly the same as mixing Coca-Cola with milk; a disgusting poison.

(Keep in mind that Mussolini and Hitler eventually dropped the "socialist" part entirely in practice, if not in name, which is why their own third-positionism is not actually "left-wing because it's in the name", and anyone who tells you otherwise is either ignorant or lying to you. One of the first things Hitler did once in power, actually, was to wipe out the more left-leaning-ish wing of the Nazi party, along with several more of his enemies. Does the "Night of the Long Knives" ring a bell?)

Why am I making the distinction between third-positionism and fascism? Because there is a growing movement in my country, which is made up of absolute Trump worshippers who truly and genuinely believe he is correct and anyone who opposes him must be destroyed. People who would gladly have a legitimate military ultranationalist dictatorship in my country, much like the one we had for almost the entire decade of the 1950s, because these people don't care about genocide as long as it doesn't happen to them and they have money to live well. People who now even disown the very democracy they used to touch themselves to between 1958 and 1999, because it allowed "the degenerates" to rule. People who now believe that uniting a country's people on the basis of their nationality or race to expel or exterminate the "inferiors" in order to make their country "great again" is a noble cause that is worthy of any kind of support. Who are even now expressing all kinds of support for the bypass of all democratic processes entirely in order to maintain the leader of such a cause in power indefinitely. People who want regular fascism instead of "fascism in a Che Guevara t-shirt".

And you know what? After I have seen the results of nearly twenty-two years of fascism in a Che Guevara t-shirt, I have decided that I don't want to see what even a fraction of a week of regular fascism is like.

I believe that the best form of government is democracy, the rule of the people. Specifically, socialdemocracy, the rule of the people in a market economy where they can and do still receive help from the State. I honestly understand why pure communism (no State, no classes, no money, no material greed) would be the best, but, unfortunately, the human species' collective psyche hasn't evolved that far yet. I wish it could, and, indeed, I hope it does. For now, though, democracy is second best, and for as long as I can defend it, I will.

Here's what we're gonna do. I'm going to leave comments open, so you (whoever is reading this) can tell me whether or not you agree with me.

If we (mostly) disagree, well, that sucks. I hope, that, before the end of your life, you can realize exactly what kind of monstrous, inhuman atrocity you are backing up, and walk away from it before it takes its toll on you.

If we (mostly) agree, all I can say is: thanks.