The New Terrapin Gazette Number 252

The New Terrapin Gazette ^ | June 3, 2012 | LBB

[Jeff Chandler]

Obama, the collectivist-authoritarian-Peronist-guide to Utopia on earth, fully understands the threat posed by his rivals, the collectivist-authoritarian-visionaries who preach Utopia as a postmortem goal.

The similarities between Obama and jihadis are striking — and incendiary.

Just as Jehovah’s Witnesses and conservative, Bible-believing Christians recognize each other as irreconcilable enemies, Obama and the lunatics who would impose a universal caliphate know each other well — and hate each other with a steady, instinctive ferocity.

Each sect knows how steadfast and dangerous the other is because each knows itself. Call it the fear/hatred of the twin. That’s very different from the emotions kindled by the presence of an utterly alien enemy. Fear of the unknown is one thing, and fear of the familiar is quite another.

[Jeff Chandler]

LBB is correct in pointing out that progressivism and jihadism are two shades of the same fascistic collectivism.

Jonah Goldberg has made a similar comparison between the two competing collectivist ideologies in Weimar Germany, socialists and National Socialists. Hitler sought the political defeat of the socialists not because their ideology was incompatible with Nazism, but rather because, both being socialist ideologies, they were competing for the same political space.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Government is the religion of the sociopath.