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Tolerance, Health and Fascism
Jewish World Review ^ | 8-27-13 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 08/27/2013 4:58:12 AM PDT by ReformationFan

I cannot count the number of times I heard liberal professors and liberal writers quote the phrase: "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." The phrase is brilliant. There is actually no threat to America of fascism coming from the right. The essence of the American right, after all, is less government; and fascism, by definition, demands ever larger government. Therefore, if there is a real fascist threat to America, it comes from the left, whose appetite for state power is essentially unlimited. But because the left has so long dominated American intellectual, academic, artistic, and media life, it has succeeded in implanting fear of the right. I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat -- and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health. Before explaining what this means, let's be clear about what this does not mean.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dennisprager; fascism; health; left; prager; tolerance; tyranny

1 posted on 08/27/2013 4:58:12 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: ReformationFan
Second, it is not liberals or liberalism that presents a threat of fascism. It is the left. Liberals of the 1940s to 1970s such as John F. Kennedy, Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and so many others were not leftists. They were liberals.

But they are all gone and now we are left with obama, Schumer, Bloomberg, Feinstein, et al. All dyed-in-the-wool ideologues and Nanny-staters.

2 posted on 08/27/2013 5:04:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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... the left controls more and more of the life of the American citizen. And when nothing stops the left, the left doesn't stop.
3 posted on 08/27/2013 5:08:21 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: ReformationFan

Liberal Professors are lying f**ks; they were covering for their agenda.
Fascism is here, now, and wears a smiley face.


4 posted on 08/27/2013 5:21:22 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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So my fear that the American left is moving America toward an expression of fascism in no way implies anything Nazi-like or genocidal.

Mr. Prager has some funny blind spots ... like not observing the anti-Semitism of the American left.

5 posted on 08/27/2013 5:27:05 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Ask me about the Weiner Wager. Support Free Republic!)
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To: ReformationFan; All

Great article, thanks!

The author’s point of the Left taking over the Liberals is a point lost on most people today.

Remember, it was Liberal JFK who gave us the Litmus Test that most Federal politicians in “both” political parties would fail today:

“ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU, ASK RATHER, WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY?”!!!

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And now for the news:

It is fitting that the US Secretary of Statements “Kerry” the Phony Administration messages to the World.

US President Valerie Jarrett is not a Military President, never has been, and never will be.

She will not complicate whatever flexibility that she and Putin already have.

The planned destruction of Syria is going along well for her and her native Country of birth.

War in Syria involves the US Congress, well, - - - - it is supposed to - - - - .

The US Congress however, is not a problem for President Jarrett, as she has never met with them, and sees no reason to do so in the future.

BTW, in other news, Golf Clown B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, was so exhausted from his recent bus tour promoting the Deathknell Obama’care’ Law, that he only had enough strength to play 5 hours of Golf on Sunday.

In keeping with tradition, Golf Clown Obama never comments on matters being handled by President Jarrett when there is a Golf Game in progress.


6 posted on 08/27/2013 5:40:07 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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