Decoding F@sc1sm - Chapter 1: Libertarianism

The Long Con of Libertarianism

I read an article today arguing that DOGE didn’t achieve its goals and that whatever industry gained from deregulation was offset by market chaos from tariffs.

And it all became so clear: so much of our cultural and political narratives has been strategic misdirection and euphemism.

But not anymore. This is the era of calling things exactly like they are - no filter.

DOGE did achieve what it set out to do:

• Gut agencies of real knowledge

• Plant loyalists

• Extract citizen data from Social Security, DHS, Labor and more

And “deregulation”? That’s just code for removing laws that protect human life from abuse. A euphemism for granting private property owners and corporations the freedom to exploit workers, commit fraud, cut oversight and pollute disenfranchised communities.

Plain and simple.

Every day now, we learn something that makes us realize: what we are seeing happening in the United States right now isn’t just the result of bumbling misguided human selfishness that has got in the way of making progress for the whole.

No, this wasn’t a natural evolution of collective humanity’s flaws (not in the way we’re told anyways). The propaganda, the gaslighting, the manipulation of language — it was intentional. All part of the plan by the ruling class who care nothing for the greater good, only for their own bank accounts.

It was all a long con.

We never truly lived in a democracy. not beyond a few fragile decades after the New Deal.

And just like a con artist stops hiding his intent once he thinks he’s got it in the bag, corporate America is now showing us its true face… right as they move to write f@sc1sm into law.

WAKING UP IS A RUDE AWAKENING

Waking up from a con, whether financial, political, or personal, comes with deep disorientation and shame.

“How didn’t I see this earlier?”

“What made me fall for it?”

“Was there something broken in me?”

Predators count on this shame to keep us silent. They often prey on the softer parts of human nature: innocence, naivete, a desire to belong, hope. Sometimes they play into darker, but still very human parts like vanity, laziness, selfishness, desire for ease.

And waking up means confronting those part of ourselves we’d rather not see, that have been shamed into the shadows.

But there’s also liberation in this. Because deep down, we felt it. Even when we couldn’t name it. And seeing it all with the masks off, explains so much:

• Citizens United wasn’t just corruption. It was spiritual betrayal.

• Kavanaugh’s nomination wasn’t just white male privilege, it was violence towards every woman in the United States.

• Project 2025, the guidebook for the authoritarian coup we are witnessing isn’t just right wing ideology, it’s the blueprint to consolidate power, privatize everything, and establish a feudalistic theocratic governance structure.

These aren’t anomalies or temporary backslides. These were part of a deliberate decades-long assault on democracy and everything that represents goodness and life.

CAPITALISM WAS ALWAYS SERVING SAURON

But f@sc1sm isn’t new. It’s been hiding in capitalism’s shadow all along.

The violence in the Middle East, the exploitation of the Global South, the scapegoating of the marginalized at home. What we are seeing and experiencing isn’t a deviation. It’s a culmination. The system just ran out of ways to hide it.

We were conditioned to believe in meritocracy, innovation, “free” markets, and “freedom.” But those were myths— calculated inversions of meaning to justify and normalize cruelty.

The point was never prosperity for all. The point was to protect the predator class.

Sauran has been the master capitalism has been serving all along. Democracy was it’s cover, until it became inconvenient.

SEEING THROUGH IT IS A MIRACLE

I know it seems dark, but something to keep in mind is that that they spent billions to keep us distracted, numbed, divided - and yet still felt the cracks. Which means our awareness and discernment survived. Our instincts stayed intact, even if we couldn’t always name the unease we were feeling.

It takes incredible strength to wake up in the middle of a f@sc1st coup, and stay awake long enough to take action.

The most dangerous people in history were not the smartest or strongest. They were the ones most willing to violate others. To abuse, to dominate, to lie.

So if you’re seeing clearly now — have compassion for your earlier self.

Innocence isn’t weakness. Projecting goodness isn’t shameful. Wanting people to be better than they are is part of what makes us still human.

F@sc1sm is a death cult. And waking up to resist it is an act of life.

We’re waking up. And every crack we see through is a miracle of perception, memory, and spirit.

This is the antidote. This is more powerful than any cruelty could ever be.