On Desiring Fascism

Fascism and Desire - h/t - Shaw Kenawe 

 "Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills." 

- Arthur Schopenhauer

He can, however, will what 'others' desire:

“Man's desire is the desire of the Other”

-Jacques Lacan

Trump:  The Organ of MAGA's desire (populism)

vs

Democrats: The Organ of the PMC's desire (the globalist elitism and luxuries bestowed upon a Communist Vanguard)

Who Shall Wield the Fasces (aka - State Power)?

How far shall the Capitalist 'ethics of kitsch' extend?

Kitsch, a term used to describe cheap, vulgar, and sentimental popular culture, has been criticized for its unethical and artistic shortcomings: 

Imitation

Kitsch imitates its predecessor without regard to ethics, aiming to copy the beautiful rather than the good. 

Deception

Kitsch is designed to deceive the viewer or tempt the naive seeker of truth.

We have many ways of avoiding this realization. We talk about Nazism as nationalism, or class struggle. We pretend the Nazis were genuinely deluded by an actual belief in their nonsense mystifications of Jews as "an alien species". But the reality, that we are desperate to incomprehend is just this: Humans like to humiliate, torture and kill other humans. Nazism was nothing but a theatrical justification for those dark desires.

But that pleasure wasn't only the act of murder, it was murder for a higher cause. Murder to serve a greater good. Murder with meaning. The true pleasure is the act of violence that is justified by a "Transcendent Purpose". Killing that makes us not killers, but Saviors. To truly do bad things, people must believe they are doing good things. So the Ethics of Evil requires the invention of a "Transcendent Purpose," and that requires The Ethics of Kitsch.