After reading Jonah Goldberg’s book “Liberal Fascism” I realized just how similar Obama may very well be to not only FDR but also Woodrow Wilson (read: the sedition act) FDR and Wilson proudly installed fascist policies. In fact, Hitler and Mussolini themselves wrote communications to FDR after his inauguration about how impressed they were with his socialistic ideas.
Here is a link to a thread about a GREAT article/booklet written by Garet Garrett in 1938 called “The Revolution Was”. In the midst of the New Deal this conservative sees it for what it is. And yes - VERY MUCH like OBAMA’S Newest Deal - actually how amazing it ALL IS BEING REPLAYED. IT is a MUST read to see how this whole Newest Deal could turn out.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
Some Excerpts:
There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.
.....The Great Depression as it developed here was such an opportunity as might have been made to order. The economic distress was relative, which is to say that at the worst of it living in this country was better than living almost anywhere else in the world. The pain, nevertheless, was very acute; and much worse than any actual hurt was a nameless fear, a kind of active despair, that assumed the proportions of a national psychosis.
Seizures of that kind were not unknown in American history. Indeed, they were characteristic of the American temperament. But never before had there been one so hard and never before had there been the danger that a revolutionary elite would be waiting to take advantage of it.......
....And so the first problem was solved. The seat of government was captured by ballot, according to law.
PROBLEM TWO
TO SEIZE ECONOMIC POWER
This was the critical problem. The brilliant solution of it will doubtless make a classic chapter in the textbooks of revolutionary technic. In a highly evolved money economy, such as this one, the shortest and surest road. to economic power would be what? It would be control of money, banking, and credit. The New Deal knew that answer. It knew also the steps and how to take them, and above all, it knew its opportunity.
It arrived at the seat of government in the midst of that well known phenomenon called a banking crisis, such as comes at the end of every great depression. It is like the crisis of a fever. When the banks begin to fail, pulling one another down, that is the worst that can happen. If the patient does not die then he will recover. We were not going to die. The same thing had happened to us before, once or twice in every twenty years, and always before the cure had brought itself to pass as it was bound to do again.