Posted on 08/27/2009 4:11:07 AM PDT by FreeManDC
Like a demanding and ill-mannered child, liberals are used to getting their way. Whenever they lapse into the losing side of an argument, they reflexively resort to name-calling and mud-slinging. Epithets like "neo-Nazi," "crypto-fascist," and "imperialist stooge" buzz like mosquitoes hovering over a Potomac swamp.
But how many conservatives who are targets of such slurs know these liberals are indulging in one of the greatest intellectual ruses in history? How many realize it's a matter of the red-faced pot calling the kettle black?
Esteemed reader, you are about to learn the truth of the long-standing love affair between American progressivism and European fascism.
As Jonah Goldberg reveals in his bestseller Liberal Fascism, that romance can be traced back to the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. The Democrat was both a progressive and racist who famously wrote, "The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation...until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country."
Shortly after America entered World War I in 1917, Wilson signed an Executive Order establishing the Committee on Public Information, a propaganda apparatus designed to whip Americans into a patriotic fervor. The following year Wilson pushed for the Sedition Act which banned the use of any "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the government. That sweeping language served to squelch all forms of political dissent.
The notorious Sedition Act occasioned the arrest of an estimated 175,000 Americans accused of essentially failing to be sufficiently patriotic — leading Goldberg to dub the Wilson presidency a "fascist police state."
For those who wonder whether the phrase "liberal fascist" is a little over the top, in fact it was coined by science fiction novelist H.G. Wells. In 1932 the progressivist Wells delivered a speech that called for a revitalization of the fading liberal movement: "the Fascists of Liberalism must...begin as a disciplined sect, but they must end as the sustaining organization of a reconstituted mankind."
Wells was also a friend and confidante of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Struggling to rescue America from the dregs of the Great Depression, FDR was fully aware of what was transpiring in Europe and sought to emulate its accomplishments. Roosevelt once bragged, "what we are doing in this country were some of things that were being done in Russia and even some of the things that were being done under Hitler in Germany."
European fascists returned the presidential compliment. In 1934 the Nazi Party's official newspaper sang the praises of FDR, describing him as a "warm-hearted leader of the people with a profound understanding of social needs." And the Fuhrer himself sent Roosevelt a private letter applauding his "heroic efforts in the interests of the American people."
Mussolini was even more enthralled with the American commander. Upon reading Roosevelt's Looking Forward, Mussolini fawned, "The appeal to the decisiveness and masculine sobriety of the nation's youth, with which Roosevelt here calls his readers to battle, is reminiscent of the ways and means by which Fascism awakened the Italian people."
Il Duce was of course referring to the sweeping New Deal policies that established massive job programs, centralized power in vast government bureaucracies, and imposed rigid price controls on the economy.
But the ugliest chapter in the progressive-fascist alliance centered on eugenics, the pseudo-science of racial purification. Three prominent persons, all of the liberal persuasion, were prominent flag-wavers in this execrable episode of American history.
Woodrow Wilson was one of the first American politicians to promote eugenic policies. As governor of New Jersey, Wilson approved a law in 1912 that created the Board of Examiners of Feebleminded, Epileptics, and Other Defectives.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was another progressive icon of the era. Holmes wrote the flawed Supreme Court decision Buck v. Bell that put the legal stamp of approval on compulsory sterilization. "Three generations of imbeciles are enough," Holmes infamously wrote.
A few years later in 1934 the American Eugenics Society published the Case for Sterilization, a book that piqued the interest of the Fuhrer himself. One leading member of the American Eugenics Society was Margaret Sanger. The birth-control crusader was the moving force behind the Negro Project, which enlisted ministers such as Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. in the crusade to restrict reproduction among "inferior" stocks of Blacks.
So fellow conservatives, arise! The next time you are slandered as a proto-Nazi or angry White male (which in the liberal mind are one and the same), drag out the fascist skeletons rattling in the progressive closet. Mention Woodrow Wilson's infatuation with racial cleansing, the FDR-Hitler mutual admiration society, Justice Holmes' authorship of Buck v. Bell, and Margaret Sanger's Negro Project.
If that doesn't stop the guilty-minded liberal in his tracks, mention how progressive-inspired eugenics policies were the prime moving force behind the forced sterilization of 400,000 undesirables in Nazi Germany.
That inconvenient truth is certain to focus the discussion.
Most of MSM owners/editors and talking heads, and the entire Democrat party should be serving time for violating The Espionage Act
Man, I hate sounding like a dyed in the wool, old fashioned conspiratorial lunatic fringe charter member, but there’s just too much happening too quickly for it be coincidence.
^^^
Don’t worry you don’t sound that way, and you are not alone.
BTW:
This week, Beck has addressed this big rush to pass so many bills at once. He says they are deliberately trying to overshelm the system. If you have not been able to watch Beck, I suggest you get the text or video of his show; he is really connecting the dots. And it’s really chilling.
” , is the Left’s Tet Offensive “
You’re coming dangerously close to thinking the unthinkable, and saying the unsayable...
The Second American Revolution has been being fought since 1968, and we’re within a gnat’s whisker of losing it....
What we’re now being called to fight is the counter-revolution...
I don't. They've been at it for 60 years or more, and the infiltration by these traitors and other actors into every nook and cranny of government and civil service, NGO's and the numurous departments of the UN is scary.
This is a big cancerous tumor we have to cut out, so big that the host may die if we try.
Why does the race card get used in every disagreement?
I am not sure what has evolved within the past year, but I have been coined a racist more times than I’d care to recall.
Whenever any political or social discussion comes up and a more liberally slanted person disagrees, they throw out the race card before the discussion can actually have some logical dialogue.
I have grown tired of that, and now ask how I can be a racist?
It usually results with Bush, blah, blah, blah....
” Why does the race card get used in every disagreement? “
Because, historically, it has *always* worked....
But have heart - there have been encouraging signs of a growing pushback, and even backlash, in recent days...
The times, to coin a phrase, they are a-changin’....
ya, i’ve been called racist while holding my mixed grandson....I do not want obama care for him...
thats right.....facts and logic are nothing to dems.
Exactly my point!! What has happened in this country is we have lost all sense of a moral decent standard. No reverence or respect for each other because liberals have successfully removed the "Standard." Good men start to become apathetic and turned a blind eye. This country can not exist without a creator driven moral code.
Inalienable rights can NEVER be endowed by man!
So, yes your point is well surmised.
Ike has it right.
They use it because
WE’VE TRAINED THEM TO USE IT.
We reinforce its use every time we cease to criticize and argue our points when it is used. We tell them it works whenever we are cowed into silence out of fear of being perceived as racist.
When the TRUTH is denegrated as racist, and the truth teller self-censors out of fear, we tell them that we’ll stop telling that truth if they accuse us of being racist.
Enough with the “guilty” liberal already. They are guilty of much but they are not driven by guilt. These people are driven by their twisted morality. Their moral relativism demands that they oppose what is good and decent.
Unfortunately facts do not faze liberals. Liberalism is based on feelings and emotion. They don’t allow facts to change what they “feel” is right.
And of course I will hear how my ancestors were atrocious to the blacks.
Then I tell them in truth that my family was dirt poor and just scraped by with the skin of their teeth, trying to survive the dust-bowl, working alongside people of color picking cotton when there was cotton to pick, and living on sharecropper land.
The responses are often highly heated, asking me how do I know if my ancestors weren’t racist? And I can only reply with how could their ancestor’s sell their own people?
There is some grandious image in a lot people’s minds that back in the day, our ancestors were all wealthy southerners on a large plantation and had a slew of slaves to work the land.
This needs to be a myth that is exposed repeatedly, as often as possible, and heard by as many whites as blacks.
The day of being apologetic is over. I don’t own a slave, nor did my ancestors. But we have all become slaves to that notion of racism, and it needs to end.
The playing of the race card needs to be met with mockery and ridicule. The player needs to be told that in so doing, he has conceded that he doesn't have any valid, reasonable, or logical argument, and that the playing of the race card is tantamount to stating as much.
Excellent piece. It eloquently states why I don’t really use the left/right dichotomy any longer, but instead the totalitarian / anarchist scale. Both left and right wingers have been totalitarian over time, so it’s more useful to think in terms of authoritarianists vs. those who would make their own way.
+++how do I know if my ancestors weren’t racist
I wonder why the speaker thinks this is relevant. Even if they were, it doesn’t make YOU a racist. Null argument.+++
A very valid point. I will keep that in mind as I enter more into these discussions.
Just as a side note, my husband who was never a real politics man until moving stateside, has become very confrontational on this issue. He is of pure Japanese descent, designed in Japan but manufactured in Hawaii.
His family lost everything during the war, his father and other relatives were placed in internment camps. But they picked themselves up by their boot-straps and started again. They learned a lesson from that war. They learned to get educated and become a necessary part of society, to keep their clans close together and work as a family to lift one another up.
When he hears people using the race card, he asks the person who spouts the race card if they are really a minority, since there are so much more blacks than there are people of his descent. He often tells them to take a little time study history and see if they can learn from the past. He says, “If extra-equality hasn’t worked for you or your family yet, maybe you should change your game plan”
No, it’s not a coincidence. You are absolutely correct.
Someone is pulling the strings. And there’s a string for each piece of the liberal left. A string for race, one for wealth, another for voters, and so on. Whoever is pulling the strings has managed to convince these disparate parties that THEIR pet project or goal is within reach. Truth is the puller of the strings couldn’t care less about these people and their aspirations. The moment the takeover is complete every one of these groups will be told to forget their goals and fall in line behind the string pullers or they will be destroyed.
I agree the people out in front are, definitely. But there is someone or someones behind the front people. The front people were carefully chosen for some characteristic that fits into the overall plan. For some it’s nothing more than their allegiance to a leftist ideal, an allegiance that blinds them to the true goals of the background person or group and how they are being used for a much bigger prize.
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