Who Dares Attack My Chesterton? (Long)

CE.com ^ | June 4th, 2012 | Zac Alstin

[x]

That also looks like overkill.

Fun in its way I guess, but maybe not the right thing to allude to.

[KC Burke]

As always, your insight is measured and on target, thanks.

I thought Goldberg's “Liberal Fascism” made an interesting point of the 19th Century German/Prussian Bismark “third way” as a forerunner to progressivism's openness to Mussolini and fascism in its initial stages.

[RichInOC]

Heh. It’s like “The Ultimate Flame” set to verse

[Salvation]

I like those — especially the Calvin and Rockefeller ones.

[Tainan]

“Their chief vice is that so many of them are very serious; because I had no time to make them flippant. It is so easy to be solemn; it is so hard to be frivolous.”

Thank you for sharing this article.
That bit alone is more than worth the price of admission.

It ain't easy bein' frivolus!

[Tainan]

“Hitler’s way of defending the independence of the family is to make every family dependent on him and his semi-Socialist State; and to preserve the authority of parents by authoritatively telling all the parents what to do… In other words, he appears to interfere with family life more even than the Bolshevists do; and to do it in the name of the sacredness of the family.”

Om my.
History does seem to repeat itself.
It appears the leftists and Hitler have taken that same playbook to heart.