US Right Now: Bad vs. Bad

Brittany Page makes a scathing indictment of human rights abuses and what Trump does to perpetuate them:

Trump orders DOJ to end processes of civil and human rights abuses
Brittany Page | 1 Aug. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5UQlMJ0Gpg

So, is Brittany Page on the right side? No.

She has a sign saying "Keep Abortion Legal" ... right now both sides of the US culture war are supporting some evil.

And both sides hanker back to the Soviet Union. In 1917, or soon after, Lenin legalised abortion on demand. So, the US left hankers back to Lenin. But all through Stalinism (and starting with Lenin, unless it's because people were in his day likelier to be killed in battle or shot) and to the time of the Perestroika and probably beyond, mental health institutions have been abusive. So, Trumpism also hankers back to Lenin. At least right now.

There was this video about some mental health abuse in France. Someone commented "but there is this thing with genes ..." OK, Lenin was a eugenicist. The programme of direct eugenics was not started but prepared under him, it was discontinued through Stalin and Lysenko, but Russians to this day have a heavy eugenic prejudice. Eugenics wasn't in its direct form discontinued because it was impopular (as it became in Sweden or Canada by the 1970's and in Germany 1945, thanks Patton!), it was discontinued because Lysenko considered it unscientific (and we are thankful for his incompetence allowing some common sense observations to shine through which would have perhaps been stifled by a solid aura of expertise) and because Stalin considered it bourgeois. Soviet mental hospitals made up for the loss of direct power over some people's reproductive organs by power over their occasions of using them.

And it's horrifying for me as an Anticommunist, and indeed I have called myself Fascist for pretty long, to see right wing populists do this evil Soviet thing.

Just as I would be horrified if Brittany Page when successfully fighting it, incidentally opened up Planned Parenthood all over the country as well.

Each side wants some abusive power for doctors, and recall, the thing that set National Socialist Germany off from Fascist Italy at the start was, NS Germany set out to make a dictatorship for doctors. In Graz, recent years, a grave stone was discovered to have a swastika. The honours were granted to the man after the Einmarsch, and he had been killed when trying an insurrection against Dollfuss or Schuschnigg. The man had been a doctor. They had a tendency to prefer Nazis over Austrofascists.

And one reason why NSDAP from the start was so steeped in medical dictatorship is, it's a Soviet thing, and Hitler was part of a very ephemeral Soviet government in Munich (not quite as ephemeral as the beer hall Putsch). Or two or three. Eisner, Leviné and so ...

Eugenics as well as the overdoing of mental health services, institutionalising as well as aborting, has to end.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Alfons Maria Liguori
2.VIII.2025

Sancti Alfonsi-Mariae de Ligorio, Fundatoris Congregationis a sanctissimo Redemptore nuncupatae, Episcopi sanctae Agathae Gothorum, Confessoris et Ecclesiae Doctoris, qui requievit in Domino pridie hujus diei.

PS, Corey Johnson's article:

Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People
by Corey G. Johnson | July 31, 2025, 5 a.m. EDT
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-civil-rights-lawsuits-halted-louisiana-south-carolina

Linked to in Brittany Page's video./HGL