300 / Part Five: Fascistic Flashpoints, Gazing Into The Void

Let us gaze into the void at the heart of this country.

What happened on January 6th was neither the beginning, nor the endpoint, of the fascist trajectory this nation has been lurching headlong toward. It was a flashpoint.

The events that led to this explosion of violence did not happen in a vacuum. Donald Trump’s rise to the highest political office in the land was neither an anomaly nor an accident. Decades of neoliberal decay, widespread white anxiety, and the inherent spiritual rot at the core of this settler-colonial project has almost guaranteed the growth of a virulent fascism in our time of mounting crises. 

This compilation of ten interviews, conducted over the past two years, is an attempt to track the various forces that led to the MAGA riot at the Capitol. Weaving together interviews that track the decline of the U.S. empire, the ramping up of the sadistic treatment and dehumanization of undocumented immigrants along the border, the metaphysical landscape of the “post-modern” age we reside in, and liberal democracy’s historic failure to counter the fascist creep, this audio compilation attempts to make sense of the dangerous moment we find ourselves in, and where this trend ultimately leads. 

Timeline: 

00:00: Intro

10:33: Noam Chomsky (Attack on journalism)

27:11: Commentary

32:15: Henry Giroux (Neoliberalism)

49:23: Commentary

55:12: John Washington (Border violence)

1:13:06: Commentary

1:20:40: Liyah Babayan (Dehumanization)

1:29:51: Commentary

1:36:23: Gary Lachman (Post-modern age)

2:01:57: Commentary

2:07:13: Jared Yates Sexton (Trumpism post-election)

2:22:38: Commentary

2:28:22: Marjorie Cohn (Electoral coup)

2:38:25: Riot Collage

2:40:32: Forrest Palmer, Micheal Sliwa, Jeff Cole (MAGA riot)

2:51:34: Commentary

2:58:11: Spencer Sunshine (The far right post-Trump)

3:09:04: Commentary

3:13:48: Alex Vitale (Domestic terror laws)

3:33:45: Outro

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