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Sept. 27, 2022 - Lionel Nation

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Weaponizing Nomenclature: Nationalism Nativism and Patriotism

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	When certain people don't know what to say, when they don't know what to call something, they will use a term, and they will use it in a way that kind of invokes...
	Some type of negativity without there apparently being at all conversant with what the word means.
	You might use populist, nativist, someone who speaks to a nationalist.
	All of these words and terms apparently are being used to provide the connotation that these are in effect synonyms.
	For something that is deleterious to an organized society and democracy.
	You know, fascist, nationalist.
	Now, that's not to say that there have not been a spate of individuals and organizations throughout history who indeed share some of those terms.
	But, is it possible for you to be a nationalist?
	And not be draconian, not be totalitarian, not be communist, not be...
	Anarchic.
	Is it possible?
	Of course it is.
	Of course it is.
	What's interesting to note is that this reminds me years ago of a story, a little apocryphal, involving Claude Pepper and George Smathers.
	And it was right around the panhandle of Florida in the 50s, I believe.
	And it's the artiful use of a particular term that is It's fascinating because what it does is it implies that you know something about it when in fact you don't.
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	What does this mean?
	Where am I going?
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	Since I have been involved in the world of professional opinionating or whatever it is that I'm doing here, I have told people that there are terms that are used that nobody really can understand or explain.
	Can you define for me operationally what communism is?
	Fascism versus socialism versus Marxism?
	Can you tell me?
	The various subtle gradations between those?
	Well, years ago, this reminds me, there was a story I always heard growing up in Florida.
	Not Florida, but Florida.
	It was George Smathers, who was, by the way, JFK's best friend, was running for Senate against Claude Pepper.
	They called him Red Pepper because they thought he was a communist or something, and he wasn't, of course.
	But in any event...
	They called him Red Pepper.
	And he would always say...
	Anyway, they called him Senator Pepper, even though he was in the House for most of his life.
	And the story goes that at the time of the various campaigns, Smathers would be around the panhandle of Florida, where people were purportedly not necessarily the most facile.
	Terms they did not necessarily understand.
	And he said, now I don't know whether you all knew this or not, but I'm getting word here on good authority that Claude Pepper's sister is a thespian from New York, no less.
	And she matriculates.
	Well, supposedly they say, a thespian?
	Well, that's what I hear.
	Far be it for me to pass on, you know.
	Well, apocryphal to be sure.
	We always heard when we were kids years ago, growing up, we had this one kind of a friend from the family who was always warning us, you know, be careful if you go to the carnival.
	Be careful if you go here and there.
	He said, you better be careful while she will.
	You better watch out for them morphodites.
	I said, a morphodite?
	What is a morphodite?
	What does that mean?
	Hermaphrodite?
	This is before anything.
	Never got an answer.
	Wasn't sure what it was.
	Just sounds evil.
	Especially the way he said it.
	I was like, oh my god.
	I've got to be looking out for something.
	I don't even know what it is.
	I said to the old joke, you know why I do this?
	By this.
	Money?
	No.
	This.
	We use these terms.
	Nationalism, populism, nativism, to connote, to convey, to suggest something that I hereby suggest to you is not in and of itself problematic in the least.
	In the least.
	And what is the most fascinating to me is that you would think by this point people would have caught on to it.
	They've said, you know what, I think I know what this is about.
	And whenever you have, oh my God, anybody who is involved in anything involving Italy, anybody who talks about values, anybody who says, if you're George of Maloney, 45 years old from Rome, from the party the Brothers of Italy, oh my God, oh!
	That sounds scary, doesn't it?
	And this being the centenary of the March on Rome, people will say immediately, Because you'd be fascisti, you know, fascist.
	Mussolini.
	Now, I'm not going to tell you that I am here to act as a spokesperson on behalf of Meloni, or that I'm here to explain to you what she is and what she isn't.
	That's not my point.
	But what we are seeing here is a couple of things.
	First, the clarion call, the sentinel has been sounded, the klaxon noted, where people are coming out of the woodwork to say that this is yet again an example, a harbinger, again, of this totalitarian right-wing lunacy.
	Merely, merely Unless there's something...
	She might have said something which is absolutely, positively replete with references to something that is indeed fascistic.
	I don't think so, but...
	Just saying.
	But what you are seeing, clearly, is this convergence.
	This idea that when you say things about your...
	Your culture, your country, your traditions, your nation, your nationality, your language, your borders, anytime, anytime you make any reference to anything, you can be assured that there are certain people, the usual suspects, who will come out of the woodwork and accuse you of actually...
	Advocating either some version of National Socialism or some type of tyranny or something.
	What's also interesting to note, and you know what I'm talking about, and I speak about this on my private channel, but if you really want to know where there is absolutely this horrible anti-human, anti-governmental Draconian examples of...
	And I've got to be careful because, as you know, this is a platform that is very sensitive.
	If I were to say something that is at all controversial, because you know I've been told this, right?
	I've been told this.
	We have been demonetized.
	And demonize, but not demoralize, because I'm controversial.
	I talk about things that are controversial.
	And this somehow proves injurious to people.
	How?
	I don't know.
	But, but, but, there are places where the worst of the worst of the worst exist.
	And I know where they are.
	And I've been telling you about this the whole time.
	But in the meantime, it would behoove you greatly.
	To look up these words.
	Find out what they are.
	And look at it.
	Remember, October is the centenary of the March on Rome.
	Go back and look at the history.
	What is fascist?
	Fascisti.
	What are the fascis?
	Where is this from?
	What is this symbol?
	What does it denote?
	Is anybody suggesting an absolutely fascistic change of government?
	Or, Is law and order somehow being subsumed under the rubric of such?
	That's the interesting aspect.
	That's the part which I find to be so thoroughly, I don't want to say amazing, because everything today is amazing.
	So anyway, you think about that carefully.
	Be very careful.
	Be very parsimonious.
	Very clinical when you...
	Append appellations and the like and labels to certain political ideologies when, in fact, most of the time it's somebody who just says, I want law and order.
	God forbid.
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