Fascism begins in the home, yes it does

Note to readers: This piece refers to my weekly show, Disaffected, and the underlying “thesis” that drives it. If you’re interested in that in more detail, I suggest listening to the very first episode, Mommie Issues. Don’t let the title fool you. It’s not only personal. It draws the connection between the child’s experience of personality disordered domestic abuse, and how that abuse metastasizes outside the home and infects every level of our body politic.

Here is that episode.

You know the phrase "fascism begins in the home." Some may write it off as worthless, since it's a phrase we've heard hard leftists use a lot.

I'd like to ask those who've written it off to reconsider. The phrase has real truth value despite its overuse by the left.

The left empties useful terms of their meaning by overusing them, misusing them, or using them perversely. An example of using them perversely is the classic narcissistic reversal.

Example 1: labeling the mutilation of healthy body parts on children "care" or "affirming care."

Example 2: labeling public disagreement with one's own bullying behavior as "abuse" and saying that it causes "trauma".

Example 3: consciously lying in such a way as to make onlookers question reality, while accusing the onlookers of “gaslighting” for objecting to the fact one is, in actual fact, doing the gaslighting.

You can imagine many more of your own.

This has left many of us unwilling to use these terms for (justified) fear that we will be perceived as speaking in emotionally manipulative ways, like the left does. But there’s an additional problem: We not only stop using the words, we start treating the concepts they refer to as not real. Some of this happens unconsciously.

We’re less likely to hear or credit genuine cases of trauma (child abuse, torture). We’re less likely to recognize gaslighting and label it (it’s very real). Etc.

Joseph Biden’s “red sermon” the other night, in my view, is a demonstration of the thesis of my show, Disaffected.

That thesis:

-Cluster B character disorders (narcissism, emotional instability, manipulation, pathological lying, false claims of victimhood) are the common-denominator-mindset that animates almost all domestic and child abuse and neglect.

-Cluster B, as the animating force in domestic abuse, is also the animating force in public and political abuse.

-When this disordered character type is found in public, in politics, in institutions, we use different names. We call such people “authoritarians”, “demagogues,” “megalomaniacs,” etc.

-When we see this behavior in certain groupings, we call it a “cult” mindset.

-Many of us are misled, and believe that all these “different” forms of abusive behavior are “different things that come from different places.” They are not different things. They come from the same place.

-To a close approximation, all of these terms are synonyms for each other. They are describing the same thing, with the same psycho-spiritual derangement.

Cluster B
Fascistic
Cult tactics
Cancel culture
Demagoguery
Megalomania
Dictatorship

It should be easy to see this in the example of President Joseph Biden.

First, a disclosure of my prior assumptions. These are things that I believe are true after much consideration. I do not guarantee that they are true. If they turn out to be false later, I will change my mind in public.

But, yes, I am saying that I have seen a preponderance of evidence that convinces me these things are very likely true.

1. Biden is a narcissist and a liar.

2. Biden abused and neglected his children in multiple ways, many we won’t ever know about.

3. The very fact that his own son is a crack addict and appears to have videotaped sexual encounters with prostitutes and what look like minors, is a strong indicator of parental abuse and neglect in the Biden home.

4. There is convincing evidence that Biden did indeed behave in a sexually abusive way to minor girl children in his family. We need only note his daughter Ashley’s diary entries, in which she wrote that he showered with her at too old an age, and in which she asks herself if she was sexually abused (spoiler: if these events took place, she was sexually abused).

But Joseph Biden’s main job today isn’t family patriarch, it’s President of the United States.

And Cluster B looks a little different when it leaves home and takes the public stage. It often looks like this:

Yes. That’s a still image plucked from video. But I believe it is a fair summary, an accurate summary, of what we’re seeing. It’s not a case of “well, they’re making him look like a dictator”. It’s a case of him staging himself as a dictator, and commenters accurately distilling that with one compelling visual.

I will be commenting in greater detail on the speech in this week’s upcoming Disaffected. But everyone reading this knows what he said. Joseph Biden characterized Republic voters—not just politicians, but voters, citizens—as crazed, dangerous, anti-American, and worse.

No American president has ever rhetorically attacked this country’s citizens in this way; and certainly never in a way that groups an entire half of the population into the conceptual category of “terrorists.”

This is fascism. This is demagoguery. This is a vicious strongman tactic that evokes Mussolini. This is authoritarianism. This is the stance of dictatorship.

This is Cluster B.

And it started at home.