We, as individuals, have a right to defend egalitarian democracy against all of its enemies, foreign and domestic, we as people possessing rights, have a moral obligation to defend it for all of us as equals.

If people on the left are going to successfully fight against and prevail against American Nazism, already far past the burgeoning stage with representatives in the White House and Republican Party, they have to admit to what it is and fight it at the root. What it is is a revamped version of the old Nazism, using the same ideas of biological inferiority and superiority - they being the superior - of the beneficial results of a race war in which they murdered all of those they identify as inferior which would result in an even more superior species of survivors.  It is Nazism updated and repackaged to appeal to Americans trained by TV and movies and pop-culture and video games and internet porn. The nostalgia of Nazi propaganda movies (which, by the way, abound in Nazi channels on YouTube and, as mentioned, on podcasts like SoundCloud) is a taste they acquire later.

That idea, as biological science, was originated in Darwin's theory of natural selection just as certainly as natural selection was the origin of Francis Galton and Wilhelm Schallmeyers two strains of eugenics, something which is undeniable because the proponent of those allied forms of scientific racism cited Darwin as their ultimate authority AND HE ENDORSED THE IDEAS THAT BOTH SCIENTIFIC RACISTS AND THE EARLY EUGENICISTS DERIVED FROM HIS THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION.   The verification of the specifically Nazi eugenics as being part of that same line of inheritance comes from none other than Charles Darwin's son, Leonard Darwin, just before WWII began.   The ties of Darwinism to Nazism couldn't possibly be clearer, they're just unread and unadmitted to by the deification of Darwin especially in the post-war period when they invented today's sanitized, sanctified plaster Darwin. 

Today's American Nazis, not having the nationalistic motives of the Germans are explicit in their citations of  Darwin and attributions to him.  I gave links to two posts I did pointing out the foremost influence on American Nazism today,  William L. Pierce, the author of the Turner Diaries, in which he was explicit in basing his pathologically violent racism and anti-Semitism on Charles Darwin and on the authors who Charles Darwin cited in his scientific works, giving them his seal of guaranteed scientific reliability.  He also cites later Darwinists such as the predecessor of the infamous Kevin Macdonald in scientific Jew baiting and racism,  Arthur Keith.  If you did your know-your-enemy homework and read today's American Nazi scribblers and listened to their babblers, you would know that they pretty much take up Pierce's lines, many of them directly taken from German Nazis from the period before they were defeated.   Most of them not being especially bright or original thinkers, much of their scribblage is a rehash of junk Pierce cranked out in his books and magazines.   

In a comment yesterday I noted that the MO of Darwin's defenders on the left is essentially the same as David Irving's in Hitler hagiography and Holocaust denial, of claiming that since there is no order signed by Hitler that says "Kill all the Jews" that means that Hitler was innocent of the Holocaust which, denying the massive evidence and eye-witness testimony and the written records of the Nazis, themselves, Irving minimizes and dismisses.   

All of the things I said yesterday are documentable on the American Nazis websites, in their podcasts.   Their central thesis of racial inferiority and superiority, of the dangers of dysgenesis and other catastrophes, biological and social, of the presence of other races and ethnicities to the "superior" and to the future, the benefits of genocide and the superiority of the survivors of that genocide are all explicitly found in Darwin's own writing and those of the people like Ernst Haeckel, Francis Galton, W. R. Gregg and others in The Descent of Man and to Herbert Spencer in the last two editions he produce of The Origin of Species.   That there were other racists and other strains of scientific racism for Darwin's champions to throw up as distraction does nothing to make the American Nazi's citations of Darwin disappear.  And the great champions of Darwin have given citations of him, by anyone on any side, an entirely out-sized importance.   I doubt that anyone would have noticed William L. Pierce citing the minor, later day Darwinist Arthur Keith because, unlike the work of Darwin, his name would be known only to a few people who had read his ever less read books.  

If the American Nazis are going to be defeated, you're going to have to do it on the basis of what they are claiming as well as meeting them with massive opposition, physical as well as verbal.  Pretending that natural selection, Darwinism, isn't at the very root of their claims is certainly not going to do it. 

I have said, for years, that more than just that will be necessary, suppressing their means of attracting converts from the gaming and porn and whiny "men's rights" internet is another.   I've been saying all of those things for a long, long time, now.   I have pointed out how the mid-20th century "free speech absolutist" interpretation of the First Amendment has enabled the worst of the worst - and the Nazis are among the worst of the worst -  to propagate and to corrupt everything, first minds, then the culture.  I have said that a country which enables lies by granting them and the liars who lie a "right" to lie was a self-made guarantee to disaster.   I have said that egalitarian democracy - THE ONLY REAL AND LEGITIMATE MEANING OF THE WORD IN THE MODERN WORLD - not only must defend itself against anti-egalitarian, anti-democratic ideologies and claims, yes, even those made as science, in order to exist and continue, we, The People, have a right to defend egalitarian democracy which provides the blessings of equality.   We, as individuals, have a right to defend egalitarian democracy against all of its enemies, foreign and domestic, we, as people possessing rights,  have a moral obligation to defend it for all of us as equals.  

And the modern age, with mass communications and modern propaganda methods, the old assumptions of the mid-20th century absolutism which brought us here, with actual Nazis in the White House, with a white supremacist as Attorney General, with an insane, infantile "president" who chose those putting people on the Supreme Court, has proven, beyond doubt, that permitting lies to be spouted through the mass media and on the internet is a guarantee to produce those results.  If you want other examples, Putin, the ultra-billionaire patron of neo-Nazism and fascism in Europe and here,  used mass media to destroy the Russian attempts to establish democracy there.  

Pretty much all of those cherished slogans and bromides of mid-20th century, pseudo-liberalism, what was really just libertarianism with a lefty false front,  have been shown to be empty and wrong.   We don't have any choice but to take a chance on requiring the truth.   As I said,  the price of free speech should be that you use it to tell the truth, the cost of allowing lies is catastrophically high, very likely ultimately so.