It must have been in the 1980s that I heard The Woman Who Can't Open Her Mouth Without A Cliche Coming Out, National Public Radio's Susan Stamberg mouthing the idiotic slogan "The first one who says 'fascist' loses" (the argument) which, certainly, would mean that as long as fascists didn't call themselves fascists that they could exist in the official DC-NYC-Atlanta (home of THE cabloid 24-7 "news" CNN) media environment without anyone daring to call their fascism what it is and, so, the fascists were the only winners in that asininity.
Closely related to that is the right-wing Jewish- American zionist practice of knocking down even the most apropos of references to what the Nazis did, on the basis that we should learn nothing from that long crime that applies to today's repetitions of those things, nor should we take any lessons on how they ratfucked German-Austrian politics of the 1920s and 30s to take lessons from or it is presented as some kind of an affont to their victims. See the use of that phony moralistic pose against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when she called the concentration camps being run by the Trump-fascist regime what they are, CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
With the news that along with ICE, the Border Patrol has people fascistic enough so they will tell little children they are not providing water to to drink out of toilets - Nazis did similar stuff in death camps - the continuing intimidation campaign and the cowardly intimidation of the media and establishment by those cover ups should be met with rejection and calling them out as enablers of fascism, of neo-Nazism here and now practiced against Latin Americans fleeing gansters who have taken over countries in Latin America whose chances for democracy were crushed by American foreign policy over centuries.
As with the refugee crises in Europe - much of that a result of European geo-politics of the colonial era and in the division of landmasses and people as the colonial system was breaking up - divisions done for the benefit of Europeans and with the explicit motive of making sure the people of those regions would be continually engaged in internal and regional struggles, America is experiencing the consequences of choices made by American governments, corporations, establishments of the past. It would be grotesquely irresponsible to not note the part that the Bush II and Bush I administrations played in the current disaster that the Middle-East has gone through as well as the gangster rule that is driving so many people to flee their homelands for the United States, risking their lives because the reality they face from America's exported gangs is far more of a risk to them.
The proposal that Julian Castro made for a Marshall Plan for Central America is one of the best ideas anyone has had on how to solve any "problem" that there is with illegal immigration into the United States, which will only get worse until people can live at home in peace and a very good chance at having a decent life in El Salvador, Honduras Guatemala, etc. The United states owes the People of that region more than it owed the People of Europe after the Second World War. The Original Marshall Plan was a matter of humanitarian good sense and morality, one which helped lead to one of the longest periods of peace and prosperity in Europe in its history. In Central America, in the Western Hemisphere, the United States not only has a humanitarian or common sense reason to promote equality, democracy and a decent life in those countries, it owes an huge debt of moral responsibility for its past exploitation and despoliation from the period after the colonial period when it replaced European colonizers working through its agent governments and puppets.
Doing that would heal everything except the self-interest of billionaires and many millionaires who have profited from the evil status quo, them and the crime bosses who are the de facto rulers of those countries, now. We will never get there until we face the fact that the Republican Party of the United States is and has been a fascist party, first promoting the fascist status quo elsewhere and now overtly bringing that fascism home, working with billionaire oligarchs to cement their fascist rule into place here with the help of the Supreme Court Republicans.
You'll never get there until you overcome those slogans and prohibitions on calling things what they are.
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