Silver Legionism

Silver Legionism is a fascist ideology representing the ideas of the Silver Legion of America. It is culturally far-right, economically cantered, and has uniquely 1930's American characteristics, such as non-interventionism and opposition to President Roosevelt's New Deal; in addition, it has  Clerical Fascism,  American Nationalism,  Corporatism,  Anti-Communism,  White Nationalism and racial segregation integrated into its beliefs.

Silver Legionism hoped to create a "Christian Commonwealth" without Jews or non-whites, which would be brought about by a "Silver Revolution" that would put the organization's leader, William Pelley, in power.

History
William Dudley Pelley was born in the year 1890 at Lynn, Massachusetts and lived in poverty with his father named William George Apsey Pelley who is a Southern Methodist Church minister, and was later a small businessman and shoemaker while his wife is Née Goodale/Grace.

William Dudley Pelley was hired by the Methodist Centenary to study Methodist missions around the world including Europe or Asia and then became part of the Red Cross to help wounded White Russians in Siberia in a brutal civil war. Later he came back to America in 1920 to become a journalist who write his articles in The Chicago Tribune Newspaper and then he got the O. Henry Awards for his short stories "The Face In The Window" in 1920 and "The Continental Angle" in 1930. He becomes a Hollywood screenwriter for Lon Chaney's films such as The Light in the Dark (1922) and The Shock (1923) but he was became disillusioned with the film industry as unfair treatment by Jewish studio executives so he moved to New York City but later to Asheville, North Carolina in 1932.

In 1928, William Dudley Pelley has entered the Esoteric World when he had an Out-Of-body Experience in which he travelled to heaven for a meeting with God & Jesus Christ for seven minutes and talked about the spiritual transformation of America. He later claimed that the experience gave him the ability to levitate, see through walls, and have more out-of-body experiences at will. In 1929 an event called The Great Depression made William Dudley Pelley becomes active in politics and in 1932 he has founded The Galahad College that specialized correspondence courses on "Social Metaphysics" and "Christian Economics.

William Dudley Pelley, becomes an admirer of Adolf Hitler, founded the Silver Legion of America on January 31, 1933, modelling his group after  Mussolini's Black Shirts and  Hitler's Brown Shirts, just a day after Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany. In doing so, Pelley became one of the very first Americans to create an organization praising the work of Hitler. Pelley held many rallies and speeches around the country and used his prior columnist skills to create newspapers and magazines spreading his ideology. By 1935 the Silver Legion had 15,000 members; however, this number would greatly decline as years went on dropping to below 5,000 by 1938.

There is some hidden events involving the Silver Legion Of America for example, a Silvershirt field marshal by the name of Roy Zachary who was in Chicago was publicly threatened to kill President Franklin F. Roosevelt or he wanted commit suicide (Not) if nobody helped him and also a local leader of the Silver Legion in Cleveland called for an armed uprising to prevent an impending Socialist Revolution. The San Diego Silver Shirts group conducted military exercises, stole weapons from a nearby naval base, and wanting to planned a siege on the city but it was stop by the authorities before this could happened.

Pelley would unsuccessfully run for office in the 1935 Presidential Election under the Christian Party with Willard Kemp as the vice presidential candidate, only receiving 1,600 votes. In 1940, the Silver Legion's headquarters in Asheville, North Carolina, was seized and raided by the HCUA, forcing Pelley to relocate to Noblesville, Indiana, and fight lengthy and expensive legal battles. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th and America declared war on Japan a day later, Pelley was led to disband the Silver Legion. He continued to attack the government in his magazines, which later prompted him to get arrested and in April of 1942 get charged with several accounts of sedition and high treason. He was set to serve 15 years in prison, but only served 8 before being paroled and released as parole in 1952. In his final years, Pelley dealt with charges of securities fraud that had been brought against him while he was desist from all political activity but he developed an elaborate religious philosophy called "Soulcraft" based on his belief in UFOs along with extraterrestrials and then he died on June 30, 1965, aged 75, in Noblesville, Indiana, where he is buried.

William Dudley Pelley has a wife named Agnes Marion Henderson-Pelley and he has a daughter named Adelaide Pelley Pearson

Several members of the Silver Legion went on to become high-ranking officials of other groups such as Aryan Nations,  The John Birch Society, and Posse Comitatus.

Kaiserreich
In an alternative universe based on a popular meme game called Hearts Of Iron IV, the man called William Dudley Pelley has supported Louisiana Governor Huey Long since 1932 and wrote endorsements of Huey Long's Share Our Wealth plan to urged his followers to join The Silver Legion of America. The Silver Legion has gained some traction with members of the Ku Klux Klan but caused a sharp decline in membership following the conviction of Grand Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson for the rape along with murder of Madge Oberholtzer and in 1934, William Dudley Pelley came into contact with Herbert W. Armstrong who is a the founder of the Grace Communion International Radio and a Anglo-Saxon Supremacist. The Silver Legion becomes a paramilitary force for the American Union State during The Second American Civil War to fight against the  Federalists along with the  Syndicalists and during the gameplay, you can do a coup with The Silver Legion against leader Huey Long to make William Dudley Pelley the new leader of the American Union State.

Personality and Behavior
Silver Legionism is wildly r***** and has a unique sense of fashion. He is also highly into spiritualism and ufology, so much that ufology is like a new religion for him. He spends most of his time doing stuff like writing books or trying to use spiritualism as a means of contacting extraterrestrials who will help kickstart the Silver Revolution. He is a big fan of George Washington, who he celebrates because he believes he is a fascist hero.

How To Draw
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 * 1) Draw a ball and color it in silver.
 * 2) Draw a Slab Serif-font scarlet-colored "L" either on the top left or middle of the ball. (Note: If drawn on the top left the L should be smaller, while if it's drawn in the middle it should be larger.)
 * 3) Draw the eyes and you're done!
 * 4) (Optional) Give the ball a campaign hat.

Friends

 * [[File:Washdem2.png]] George Washington - I am big fan of you and we share the same [[File:PagTheo.png]] Esoteric believes even you have involved in [[File:Esosoc.png]] Freemasonary.
 * [[File:Jeffersondem2.png]] Jeffersonian Democracy - You are a friend of Washington, created the [[File:Consti.png]] constitution and become an amazing [[File:Prez.png]] president, so that means you are based.
 * [[File:Nazi.png]] National Socialism - Based friend from Germany that knows the world truth.
 * [[File:Positive_Christianity.png]] Positive Christianity- My ideological forerunner in [[File:Nazi.png]] Germany
 * [[File:Methodist_Theocracy.png]] Methodist Theocracy - My True religion (sorry for denouncing you in the 1950s, but the occult was where the REAL joy was!)
 * [[File:Cfash.png]] Clerical Fascism - Religious And Fascist? Based.
 * [[File:Whitesup.png]] White Nationalism - I want to live in a White America.
 * [[File:RussianWhites.png]] White Movement - I was part of the Red Cross to help you feel better in Siberia even you are a [[File:Orth.png]] Orthodox Christian instead of a [[File:Catheo.png]] Catholic one.
 * [[File:Altr.png]] Alt-Right - Zoomers who are against ethnic substitution.
 * [[File:Fash.png]] Fascism - My Mentor and creator of things even you are a Catholic.
 * [[File:Isolationist.png]] Isolationism - We should not attack Germany or any other innocent nation.
 * [[File:Rpop-tinfoilhat.png]] Right-Wing Populism - Tell me something that I did not know about.
 * [[File:Protect.png]] Protectionism - I want America too be itself.
 * [[File:Corptism.png]] Corporatism - It was not [[File:ML.png]] corrupt Communism and it was not [[File:Corp.png]] Crony Capitalism either.
 * [[File:Ethnonat.png]] Ethnonationalism - I am proud to be an [[File:Cball-US.png]] American.
 * [[File:Jacksonian_Democracy.png]] Jacksonian Democracy - Don't worry about your plans of the future because I am here to fullfill them.
 * [[File:Fuente.png]] Fuentesism - Bascially my modern self but more Internetist.
 * [[File:SocialConservative.png]] Social Conservatism - I almost forgot about you since I realized that [[File:Patcon.png]] Imposter with a hat was really you but not.
 * [[File:Cultism.png]] Cultism - I did dabble in the occult quite a bit, and I had a lot of esoteric views about extraterrestrials later in life.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Consti.png]] Constitutionalism - "For Christianity And The Constitution" this holy peace of paper have to be reformed just like the other constitutions from foregin democratic nations.
 * [[File:Native.png]] Indigenism - Thanks for helping me. But why do you not like me anymore and now feel bad for holding slaves? Why can't you be more like your based ancestors?
 * [[File:Esofash.png]] Esoteric Fascism - Spiritualism can be a Christian thing as well even you are a Pagan.
 * [[File:Long.png]] Longism (Kaiserreich) - I am your sidekick because you are a hero to the people but please don't reject me just because I'm little different for you to handle.
 * [[File:Mediastocracy_flair.png]] Mediacracy - I was a Hollywood screenwriter and created The Silvershirt Weekly but you have become too [[File:Lib.png]] for me to handle but I was appeared in The American Magazine as a real celebrity.
 * [[File:Showa-kanmuri.png]] Showa Statism - You supposed to strike when I was president of this country but not to strike when I was not ready and it puts me into jail.
 * [[File:Posadist.png]] Posadism - I have made a fanfiction about you helping me with the Silver Revolution so you can not be a [[File:Soc.png]] Socialist for a change.

Enemies

 * [[File:Jewish_Capitalism.png]] Jewish Capitalism - Did you cause The Great Depression because there is rumors about you doing it to make the people suffer for your own pleasure.
 * [[File:CPUSA.png]] Bill Of Rights Socialism - You have rigged an election and it was Un-American.
 * [[File:Soc.png]] Socialism - It was also known as class division.
 * [[File:Catheo.png]] Catholic Theocracy - Papist P!ss.
 * [[File:Zio.png]] Zionism - Filthy Jew.
 * [[File:Ormarxf.png]] Marxism - I will save America from you.
 * [[File:Bundis.png]] Bundism - COMMIE JEW!
 * [[File:Labzion.png]] Labour Zionism - ANOTHER ONE!
 * [[File:Blacknat.png]] Black Nationalism - N*****!
 * [[File:Blackzio.png]] Black Zionism - Abomination.
 * [[File:Stalin.png]] Stalinism - P3dostache Georgian Socialist.
 * [[File:Zapa.png]] Neozapatismo - This is what happens when I invaded Latin America in this alternative timeline.
 * [[File:Synd.png]] Syndicalism (Kaiserreich) - Did not realize you are my enemy in this timeline.
 * [[File:Cathwor.png]] Catholic Workerism - I have nether seen that coming even both of us are underated.
 * [[File:Sewersoc.png]] Sewer Socialism - You are too gross to lead America.
 * [[File:FDRismF.png]] Franklin D. Roosevelt - You did not listen to the people even [[File:Long.png]] Huey Long.
 * [[File:Conservative_Posadism.png]] Douglas MacArthur - We The People have reclaimed Washington DC from Federalist Tyranny.
 * [[File:Satan.png]] Satanic Theocracy - I will never forget about you as my foe.
 * [[File:StateathFedora.png]] State Atheism - The reason why most abolitionists are Christians because "God Created All Men Equal" and he wanted you to be sent to hell because you're hat is way too big for an icon like that.

[[File:Wikipedia.png]] Wikipedia

 * Silver Legion of America
 * William Dudley Pelley
 * Christian Party (United States, 1930s)

[[File:YouTube.png]] Videos

 * When the ‘American Hitler’ Came to Washington | Mossback’s Northwest by KCTS9
 * Nazis In Los Angeles? The Story Of The Silver Shirts Legion by ColbyJack Cheese Exploration
 * The Silver Legion of America’s Program - William Dudley Pelley by Zoltanous HN
 * William Dudley Pelley on Tulpa by Not Available
 * No More Hunger - William Dudley Pelley by Not Available
 * Introduction to William Dudley Pelley and Liberation Soulcraft by Adelaide Pelle by Not Available
 * William Dudley Pelley on The Christian Commonwealth by Not Available
 * Lungs of Betelgeuse - William Dudley Pelley & The Silver Legion of America by Not Available
 * A Corpse in the Road by William Dudley Pelley, 1952 by Not Available

Alternate History

 * {Alt.} Season Premiere - The Silver Legion Alternate History. by DA Group Education
 * What If America Became Fascist? | Alternate History by Monsieur Z
 * Communist Confederacy | Alternate History by Monsieur Z
 * Pelley President by Alternatehistorypt
 * Top 5 MORE U.S. Dictatorship What Ifs by The Alternate Historian

Lon Chaney's Films

 * The Light In The Dark 1922 by Chloroform And Silver Nitrate
 * The Shock 1923 by TheVideoCellar

Archvillian Substack

 * The Main Page Of This Secret Website

Other Websites

 * Soulcraft Teachings
 * The Kasierreich Universe
 * Silver Shirts
 * The Silver Shirts
 * William Dudley Pelley

Literature

 * Hidden Empire by William Dudley Pelley
 * No More Hunger by William Dudley Pelley
 * Nostradamus Volume 1 of 17 by William Dudley Pelley
 * Golden Rubbish by William Dudley Pelley
 * My Seven Minutes In Eternity by William Dudley Pelley
 * Star Guests by William Dudley Pelley
 * Soul Eternal by William Dudley Pelley
 * Dupes Of Judah by William Dudley Pelley

Gallery
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