Thank You!
Any time I hear people crying about how we are living in a fascist country or are socialist or communist or whatever, I want to scream you ignorant fool. We are the USA, we are the freest country in the world. We are the most prosperous country in the world.
If we were really fascist:
As Ayn Rand said, the only difference between Communists and Fascists is the color of their uniforms.
” * The government would determine your job based on the good of the state.”
Affirmative action and other preferential hiring.
” * The government would control industry, not the other way around.”
They do, through regulatory fiat. I take it you’re not an entrepreneur.
” * Your political party affiliation would be mandated.
* Media would be a single outlet controlled by the government.”
Government regulation of broadcast media and ownershiop rules allowed for a small number of media gatekeepers. The dems want to bring back the Fairness Doctrine, and some on the right want to limit what blogs etc can say about candidates. Then there’s ‘campaign finance reform.’
” * All citizens would be categorized into boxes based on some factor, be it race, family ties, beliefs, whatever, and your job, your salary, where you live, what school you go to, and your rights would be based on that ‘box’.”
Thanks to affirmative action some of these things are already true.
” * Private schools would not be allowed to exist.”
The ‘education complex’ is trying to ban home schooling. Even if you send your kid to private school, you have to pay taxes for public school.
Government schools are indoctrination centers. The government mandates what can and can’t be taught at private schools.
” * Only one, government mandated religion would exist and that religion would be controlled by the government.”
The government is hostile to religion. Atheism is the official religion of the government.
” * Military service would be mandatory.”
People on both sides have proposed mandatory national service - aka - slave labor.
” * Police would be a branch of the military and would regulate law based on martial law rule.”
No-knock warrants. Police as paramilitary organizations. The federalization of many issues such as a the ‘war on drugs’ through the abuse of the commerce clause.
” * Travel would 100% regulated.”
No-fly lists that are impossible to get off of.
” * All speech would be licensed and subject to regulation.”
So-called ‘hate speech’ laws. We’re getting there.
” * Blogs would not exist.
* YouTube would not exist.
* FreeRepublic would not exist.”
Campaign finance reform isn’t far from this. It’s been discussed that a supporting blog is an ‘in kind contribution.’
” * No person would be free to make a speech decrying if the government is fascist, communist, or whatever.”
Our government has been socialist for a long time.
” * Failure to comply with politically correct speech or correct thinking would subject you to imprisonment or worse.”
Hate speech laws. Thought crime laws. Not an inch of difference between them.
Add to that abuse of eminent domain laws and gun control, abortion, and mandating homosexual indoctrination, and what do we get? (another day older and deeper in debt)
You’re right. Some people are so obsessed with the good of a simple ideal that they’ve completely lost perspective with how it fits in with all the others, especially tolerance for the imperfections in a democratic society that make their freedom possible. Some will out grow it, some won’t.