Richard Gere: Donald Trump is America’s Mussolini – but intelligent people aren’t seeing this

The Evening Standard ^ | March 3, 2016 | Alison Roberts

[Hostage]

Richard Gere probably thinks Obama is America’s John Kennedy, but Daniel Ortega is more accurate.

Get packed up for Canada Richard!

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[jessduntno]

FDR was a liberals dream. He openly admired Mussolini. Roosevelt himself called Mussolini “admirable” and professed that he was “deeply impressed by what he has accomplished.” The admiration was mutual. In a laudatory review of Roosevelt’s 1933 book Looking Forward, Mussolini wrote, “Reminiscent of Fascism is the principle that the state no longer leaves the economy to its own devices.… Without question, the mood accompanying this sea change resembles that of Fascism.” The chief Nazi newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, repeatedly praised “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” and “the development toward an authoritarian state” based on the “demand that collective good be put before individual self-interest.” Soon after having taken his second Oath of Office in January 1937, President Roosevelt, in a conversation with a speechwriter, articulated his belief that the limits on governmental power that were enshrined in the U.S. Constitution were impediments to the transformative social and economic policies he wished to implement: "When the chief justice read me the oath and came to the words 'support the Constitution of the United States,' I felt like saying: 'Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy -- not the kind of Constitution your court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy.'" FDR chose to attack the depression with his so-called New Deal: a series of economic programs passed during his first term in office. These programs greatly expanded the size, scope, and power of the federal government, giving the President and his Brain Trust near-dictatorial status. “I want to assure you,” Roosevelt's aide Harry Hopkins told an audience of New Deal activists in New York, “that we are not afraid of exploring anything within the law, and we have a lawyer who will declare anything you want to do legal.” http://freedomoutpost.com/hitler-mussolini-fdr-and-obama/

[Charles Martel]

[Grampa Dave]

Anyone missing a gerbil?

[Grampa Dave]

Anyone missing a gerbil?

[alloysteel]

“Intelligence” turns out to be one of those traits that has an infinitely elastic definition, depending on who may be applying the label. To those of Richard Gere’s ilk, “intelligent” = “liberal”, so by definition, those who are not of liberal viewpoint, cannot be intelligent.

Nothing at all to do with critical thinking, or applied logic, or pragmatic acceptance of basic principles that have proven over centuries, eons, of human experience.

At one time, FDR greatly admired the systematic reform of Italy under Mussolini, because “he made the trains run on time”. That supposed efficiency was largely the model for the “National Recovery Act”.

[kaehurowing]

He looks terrible.

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Too many gerbils will do that.

[digger48]

In 1967, Gere graduated from North Syracuse Central High School, where he excelled at gymnastics and music, playing the trumpet.[2] He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst on a gymnastics scholarship, majoring in philosophy, but did not graduate, leaving after two years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gere

[Jeff Chandler]

"Wha?"

[Grampa Dave]

Who has the pic of Obama as Il Duce? It’s MUCH more apropos.

[Darteaus94025]

That doesn’t mean that Gere doesn’t support Trump, after all:

‘Just as progressives were generally enthusiastic about socialist movements in the Soviet Union and Europe, they were also overwhelmingly supportive of the fascist movements in Italy and Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. “In many respects,” writes journalist Jonah Goldberg, “the founding fathers of modern liberalism, the men and women who laid the intellectual groundwork of the New Deal and the welfare state, thought that fascism sounded like ... a worthwhile ‘experiment’”:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1223

[Colorado Doug]

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[BlackAdderess]

No, but I do think we have a GOPe that is very much in the spirit of a Heinrich Bruning.

On page 168 of “Ailing Empire: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler”

“...which explains the paradox of Bruning’s reputation as the last defender of the Weimar Constitution. He was not. He was called in to stage a coup...”

What we’ve got is an establishment bent on finding a figurehead to rule through, an establishment that is drunk on their own supposed brilliance.

[El Cid]

I thought making the trains run on time was Michael Dukakis’ job?

I thought that was tanks...

[Talisker]

The Dalai Lama should bitch slap this airhead.

[sauropod]

Richard Gere is suffering from lack of oxygen...

From his crainial/rectal inversion.

[Sasparilla]

Hee we are, looking to Hollywood for political guidance. Dis t Richard Gere play Mussolini once?

[vetvetdoug]

So I suppose Richard is more intelligent since he supports Hillary or Bernie? Asswipe.

[ClearCase_guy]

Why not both?