Who are the fascists?
There are so many things rattling around my head that it probably is a mistake to write, but I must.
We had a couple of dozen white supremacists mark the 1 year anniversary of the Charlottesville Massacre. Facing them were well over 100 masked individuals calling for violence on everyone that disagreed with them. This spilled out onto the police presence, which was absent last year, intentionally, by most accounts. And not just the police, but the media as well. I found that amusing that they, for some reason, did not emphasize those attacks. This masked mob is known as Antifa, or the Anti-Fascists. They claim to fight against hatred, by being intolerant of every opinion that differs from theirs. or maybe they take their terms from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which labels anyone that is not a progressive a hate group. Hitler, they cry! Nazis, they cry, and then proceed to make stupid statements about how these people came out of the woodwork because of Trump, and they didn't exist before. Did no one see the Blues Brothers? Go to youtube and search Illinois Nazis and Blues Brothers. They have always been around, they will always be around, and by accusing everyone that disagrees with you of being Hitler and Nazis, you dishonor those that were murdered by them in WWII, and those who fought to rid the earth of them. But maybe there is something you don't know about these fascists.
Wow, that was a long paragraph, sorry.
Did you know that before 1942, the progressive heroes of today's left LOVED Fascism? We are told this is a far right movement, but let's compare, shall we?
Of course, they were in love with Mussolini, one of the three AXIS dictators. He made the trains run on time. How? by nationalizing the railroads, now fascism does take a different road than communist socialism, in that it controls corporations, by allowing them to participate in government, by creating regulations that eliminate competitors, and by getting carve outs in the tax codes to manage their business. Communists just take everything and run them into the ground. But does that description of fascism sound familiar? Massive regulatory burdens? Tax codes whose pages number in the thousands? Licensing, which keeps new competitors out of the market? Yeah, I know.
But Nationalists! Yeah, I have been called a statist because I believe in America. I believe that the dream set forth by the founders is still valid today. Yeah, it's not perfect, but the ideal is. Those that look at fascists and see them as right wing zealots should look at what the right wing stood for during these times when the likes of Roosevelt, Wilson, and Roosevelt, were making ga ga eyes at Mussolini and Hitler. May I point out that they may bring up Hoover, but Hoover was a leftist, someone that felt that government should do for the people. I would point out that the right wing representative of the day was, no surprise, Calvin Coolidge.
While the progressives were singing Billy Idol's Rebel Yell (More more more) as in government, Calvin Coolidge was squeezing the government, he reduced the government's budget while he was in office. By the way, those that have looked at the actual data and trends realize that it was Hoover's, and later, FDR's, interventions that prolonged a downturn into what we know as the Great Depression. (Now that sounds familiar, with a big government R (Bush 43) and his successor Barack Hussein Obama (um um um) prolonged a painful bubble burst (by the way caused by inaction on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by the congress when regulators tried to increase scrutiny on these giants) into the Great Recession. Google it. You will see some very familiar faces that are on the cutting edge today in Congress, defending the incompetence (using a gentle term here) of those leading those giant GSEs.
So what soured the left on their favorite form of government? Was it waking up to see how stupid it is that anyone thinks that government covering for business is the American Way? Nope. Was it the horrors of the night of the long knives? Of the holocaust, of which there were rumblings? What pushed them over the edge? Pearl Harbor? nope. The only thing that the progressives love better than government and big business in bed with each other is government eliminating their bedfellow, and doing it all itself. Yup. It was Hitler's invasion of Communist Russia that turned the progressives against fascism.
I have pointed out that both the Democrats and establishment GOP support bigger government. The near impossible task of dismantling the leviathan would be daunting even if your own party supported you in doing so. Regardless of the program, there are jobs that would be lost. And when it comes to jobs, you touch on a third rail. Even trying to reform a program that is in desperate need, like Social Security is political death. W tried it, and was fried. The thing is, there is something that is a fact about socialism; Sooner or later, you DO run out of other people's money. There is no way to levy a tax that will fix social security on those still paying that will cause Social Security to gain solvency. We saw a mass run to the exits during the Great Recession, and it will only get worse. What is anyone doing about it? Guess what? It isn't the only one in dire straits. Medicare, the Pension Guarantee fund. Oh, and with interest rates slowly going up, the National Debt will take its place as the king of the budget. Then what?
In closing, I don't understand why the leftists are so upset with Trump. He is apolitical. He chose to run in the GOP because he saw the fix was in over at the Democrat party. He is fulfilling his promises in spite of being apolitical. The judges are judges that understand that justice is blind. That the law is the law, and that is that. Years of ignoring old laws, or choosing to not enforce this one or that one will come to roost and could be pulled out, dusted off, and enforced at any time. And yet even these laws which every one agrees should be eliminated are impossible to repeal. The progressives built a wonderful affair between big government and big business, so now what? But to call people you disagree with Hitler, or fascist, or some other -ist, or -phobe, squelches the conversation. And who is doing that? Hmm?
We had a couple of dozen white supremacists mark the 1 year anniversary of the Charlottesville Massacre. Facing them were well over 100 masked individuals calling for violence on everyone that disagreed with them. This spilled out onto the police presence, which was absent last year, intentionally, by most accounts. And not just the police, but the media as well. I found that amusing that they, for some reason, did not emphasize those attacks. This masked mob is known as Antifa, or the Anti-Fascists. They claim to fight against hatred, by being intolerant of every opinion that differs from theirs. or maybe they take their terms from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which labels anyone that is not a progressive a hate group. Hitler, they cry! Nazis, they cry, and then proceed to make stupid statements about how these people came out of the woodwork because of Trump, and they didn't exist before. Did no one see the Blues Brothers? Go to youtube and search Illinois Nazis and Blues Brothers. They have always been around, they will always be around, and by accusing everyone that disagrees with you of being Hitler and Nazis, you dishonor those that were murdered by them in WWII, and those who fought to rid the earth of them. But maybe there is something you don't know about these fascists.
Wow, that was a long paragraph, sorry.
Did you know that before 1942, the progressive heroes of today's left LOVED Fascism? We are told this is a far right movement, but let's compare, shall we?
Of course, they were in love with Mussolini, one of the three AXIS dictators. He made the trains run on time. How? by nationalizing the railroads, now fascism does take a different road than communist socialism, in that it controls corporations, by allowing them to participate in government, by creating regulations that eliminate competitors, and by getting carve outs in the tax codes to manage their business. Communists just take everything and run them into the ground. But does that description of fascism sound familiar? Massive regulatory burdens? Tax codes whose pages number in the thousands? Licensing, which keeps new competitors out of the market? Yeah, I know.
But Nationalists! Yeah, I have been called a statist because I believe in America. I believe that the dream set forth by the founders is still valid today. Yeah, it's not perfect, but the ideal is. Those that look at fascists and see them as right wing zealots should look at what the right wing stood for during these times when the likes of Roosevelt, Wilson, and Roosevelt, were making ga ga eyes at Mussolini and Hitler. May I point out that they may bring up Hoover, but Hoover was a leftist, someone that felt that government should do for the people. I would point out that the right wing representative of the day was, no surprise, Calvin Coolidge.
While the progressives were singing Billy Idol's Rebel Yell (More more more) as in government, Calvin Coolidge was squeezing the government, he reduced the government's budget while he was in office. By the way, those that have looked at the actual data and trends realize that it was Hoover's, and later, FDR's, interventions that prolonged a downturn into what we know as the Great Depression. (Now that sounds familiar, with a big government R (Bush 43) and his successor Barack Hussein Obama (um um um) prolonged a painful bubble burst (by the way caused by inaction on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by the congress when regulators tried to increase scrutiny on these giants) into the Great Recession. Google it. You will see some very familiar faces that are on the cutting edge today in Congress, defending the incompetence (using a gentle term here) of those leading those giant GSEs.
So what soured the left on their favorite form of government? Was it waking up to see how stupid it is that anyone thinks that government covering for business is the American Way? Nope. Was it the horrors of the night of the long knives? Of the holocaust, of which there were rumblings? What pushed them over the edge? Pearl Harbor? nope. The only thing that the progressives love better than government and big business in bed with each other is government eliminating their bedfellow, and doing it all itself. Yup. It was Hitler's invasion of Communist Russia that turned the progressives against fascism.
I have pointed out that both the Democrats and establishment GOP support bigger government. The near impossible task of dismantling the leviathan would be daunting even if your own party supported you in doing so. Regardless of the program, there are jobs that would be lost. And when it comes to jobs, you touch on a third rail. Even trying to reform a program that is in desperate need, like Social Security is political death. W tried it, and was fried. The thing is, there is something that is a fact about socialism; Sooner or later, you DO run out of other people's money. There is no way to levy a tax that will fix social security on those still paying that will cause Social Security to gain solvency. We saw a mass run to the exits during the Great Recession, and it will only get worse. What is anyone doing about it? Guess what? It isn't the only one in dire straits. Medicare, the Pension Guarantee fund. Oh, and with interest rates slowly going up, the National Debt will take its place as the king of the budget. Then what?
In closing, I don't understand why the leftists are so upset with Trump. He is apolitical. He chose to run in the GOP because he saw the fix was in over at the Democrat party. He is fulfilling his promises in spite of being apolitical. The judges are judges that understand that justice is blind. That the law is the law, and that is that. Years of ignoring old laws, or choosing to not enforce this one or that one will come to roost and could be pulled out, dusted off, and enforced at any time. And yet even these laws which every one agrees should be eliminated are impossible to repeal. The progressives built a wonderful affair between big government and big business, so now what? But to call people you disagree with Hitler, or fascist, or some other -ist, or -phobe, squelches the conversation. And who is doing that? Hmm?
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