An American Fascism

Frontpage ^ | 11/12/15 | David Horowitz

[Jacquerie]

<>. Didn’t read after his McCarthy reference.<>

Then wallow in, and enjoy your ignorance.

[Yosemitest]

Obama supporters really are marked with A POWERFUL DELUSION.

... that they should believe a lie:
That they ALL might be damned
who believed not the truth,
but HAD PLEASURE
IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS .

[subterfuge]

Guess I struck a nerve. It’s Horowitz that’s wallowing in ignorance and I refuse to participate. At least he agrees with Hillary, as do you, apparently.

Keep em coming, I’ve got all day.

[NTHockey]

Restore the republic.

[Jacquerie]

Please elaborate. How?

[NTHockey]

After it’s all over, the ones left alive are the best armed and courageous. The new leaders we select will reestablish the Constitution and the republic. Having lost the republic once, those who make it through the tribulations will ensure that it will never happen again.

There is another possibility; that an evil person may take advantage and rule as a despot. That we cannot allow. The natural state of man is freedom, not slavery.

[lentulusgracchus]

some still wear Che shirts, none wave the North Vietnamese Communist flag these days

Bill Ayers does, presidential advisor and general big shot.

I don't know about his SDS gun moll, Bernadine Dohrn.

[lentulusgracchus]

....if you aren’t in one of those groups, you were born with ‘original sin’ and cannot be redeemed.

The Killing Fields was on last night .... powerful testamentary representation of what the Khmer Rouge and totalitarianism are really like.

I hope they run it every night, until liberal heads explode.

By the way, the Khmer Rouge killed a ton of people for owning glasses. That meant they could, and did, read.

[lentulusgracchus]

McCarthy was nothing of the sort.

No, no, Horowitz is just reciting the Leftist rant that he is attacking. I think you misunderstood him.

[a fool in paradise]

the Khmer Rouge also killed off the pop singers, something Hollywood doesn’t really comprehend...

“Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll” [Official Documentary Trailer]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipq4FefX5Ps

SLEEPWALKING THROUGH THE MEKONG trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohR-9ugs9V0
This is the trailer for Sleepwalking Through The Mekong, the documentary film featuring Dengue Fever. The two disc set, including the DVD of the film and the film’s soundtrack, will be released on April 14, 2009 in the US. The film chronicles the journey taken by Los Angeles based Khmer rock band Dengue Fever to lead singer Chhom Nimols native Cambodia during the 2005 Water Festival. The bands performances there marked the first time a Western band had performed classic 1960s and 70s Cambodian rock n roll in the country where it was created and nearly erased from existence by the brutal Pol Pot regime.

[a fool in paradise]

Iran similarly had a “cultural revolution” in the 70s that wiped out what existed before.

Michelle Obama said our HISTORY and TRADITIONS would have to change.

[lentulusgracchus]

Michelle Obama said our HISTORY and TRADITIONS would have to change.

Do you think she meant that literally about our history having to change, like those old Soviet encyclopedias? Like Winston Smith, beavering away in the bowels of Orwell's MiniTrue?

[a fool in paradise]

That’s the way I took it.

Campaign trail 2008:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR9zic9ew4Q

[rlmorel]

I have read several of his books, and I appreciate his conservative qualities. And I also appreciate the bent of this article.

But in the context in the article and how he used it in his opening sentence, I don’t believe he is gratuitously using the word in a mocking way or throwing it back at them. While David Horowitz is a conservative, I believe that historically, he doesn’t have any appreciation of McCarthy and as he would likely put it, his “methods”.

There are a lot of conservatives who feel that way about McCarthy, that he ran roughshod over people, unfairly painted them, shouted them down and wouldn’t let them speak, which is how David Horowitz is rightly painting this campaign we see on campus.

In that narrow sense of how the word “McCarthyism” is used by society, David Horowitz is spot on and correct and I don’t have an issue with the meaning he intended.

I have an issue with using him as the example, which I think is exactly what he did.

However, the “McCarthyism” lie is propagated over and over again. I think is unfair, undeserved, and a shame. McCarthy was a patriot who sacrificed his office, his reputation, and eventually, his life in defense of his country from what we know now for certain was not a “Red Scare” of boogeyman communists hiding under beds, but was a serious infiltration of communists and communist sympathizers in government, particularly in the State Department.