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Politicians who keep their campaign cash – Investigative Post

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Politicians who keep their campaign cash – Investigative Post

Some elected officials shut down their campaign funds when they leave office, but many don’t. Some enter the private sector with substantial sums of campaign cash, which they can use largely as they see fit. Ken Kruly, Investigative Post researcher and publisher of Politics and Other Stuff, reviewed the campaign finances of 32 former elected officials in Western New York. Here he looks at the top 10 — as it happens, five Democrats and five Republicans — whose campaign accounts are still active.

Trump Film Ellipse Jan. 6, 2021 on Vimeo

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Trump Film Ellipse Jan. 6, 2021 on Vimeo

While I hadn't seen this film yet - in part because of my ignorance - and in part because of internet censorship, it's worth a watch. It really does have all the marks of fascism, something out of the propaganda film in the The Parallax View. I actually hope it's preserved for history and discussed in social studies classes in the context of how democracy prevailed over fascism. 

A Study in Fascist Propaganda

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Movie at the Ellipse: A Study in Fascist Propaganda

Fascism is a patriarchal cult of the leader, who promises national restoration in the face of supposed humiliation by a treacherous and power-hungry global elite, who have encouraged minorities to destabilize the social order as part of their plan to dominate the “true nation,” and fold them into a global world government. The fascist leader is the father of his nation, in a very real sense like the father in a traditional patriarchal family. He mobilizes the masses by reminding them of what they supposedly have lost, and who it is that is responsible for that loss – the figures who control democracy itself, the elite; Nazi ideology is a species of fascism in which this global elite are Jews.