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To: inpajamas
Excellent little essay; I particularly like the description of modern liberalism as "effeminate fascism." There are in fact many commonalities between fascism and today's so-called liberalism:

1. The tolerance of free enterprise while simultaneously bringing it under the iron fist of the State.

2. A belief that life's meaning derives from collectivist politics, e.g., "the politics of meaning" championed by Hillary.

3. A profound hatred of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

4. Nature-worship and a paganism which looks back fondly to our pre-Christian past.

5. Elitism.

6. Intolerance towards intellectual adversaries.

7. Nihilism and exaltation of the irrational.

8. Darwinism.

9. Cynicism; mockery and rejection of altruism.

10. Weakening of intermediary social institutions (family/church/business) in order to facilitate a direct relationship between the individual and the federal government.

11. Naturalism in law; denial of divine authority in any sense.

12. Separation of economic rights from political rights, e.g., it doesn't matter if you can vote, as long as you are fed and housed.

The issue of violence is complex. Although the Left is superficially anti-military, this is somewhat of a false impression. They are, above all, against the American military. But they do worship revolutionaries such as Che and Fidel and Mao, and they are quite capable of violence when it suits their purposes. History bears this out. Liberals have us all studying the salem Witch Trials, where maybe a handful of people were falsely executed, and gloss over the millions killed - more recently - under communist regimes.
17 posted on 03/21/2006 12:39:07 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

Looks just like the commie manifesto to me!

They HAVE taken us over from within, in fact one could almost say FDR and the progressives before him invited them right in. They wanted the power they saw Bismark had.

Roosevelt/Delano & his Rockefeller/Morgan/Rothschild puppeteers are the perps we should be hanging for treason, and their ugly spawn like the Rockefeller Foundation (and all the other elite tax havens of propaganda) & Rockefeller's CFR creature too.


34 posted on 03/22/2006 11:02:02 AM PST by Marxbites (Freedom is the negation of Govt to the maximum extent possible. Today Govt is the economy's virus.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

I dispute a couple of your commonalities:

Darwinism. Evolution has nothing to do with the Social Darwinism of the Nazis and, if anything, modern liberals are reflexively hostile to the concepts of Social Darwinism. If this is some attempt to link evolution with modern liberalism, this is dishonest and dishonorable (and inaccurate.)

I don't believe they mock altruism, either. They may mock certain FORMS of altruism, but that does not mean they reject it entirely. Liberals LOVE self-sacrifice, especially when someone else is doing it. Not sure where you get that 'commonality.' Oh, you also seem to miss the dedication to the State that is found in fascism. Because the recipient of the sacrifice and altruism is different does not mean they don't seek to inculcuate it as a primary value. Much Nazi talk was about putting aside individualism.

THe collectivists are, by definition, HOSTILE to individualism. Again, sounds like you wanted to paint a particular picture with a couple of these points but I think you do yourself a disservice.


46 posted on 04/24/2006 11:28:32 AM PDT by Skywalk (Transdimensional Jihad!)
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