I was calling this nation fascist back in 2006. Want proof? Go buy a toilet or a shower head, or in California go buy a light bulb.
During the last election I compared Obama’s followers to Hitler’s followers. I also, although with less resolution, compared Obama to Hitler.
After Obama had been in power for six months, it hit me that who he MUCH MORE emulates, on several levels, is Mussolini.
I consider the US to be a fascist nation. As long as you fly under the radar and just do as you are told, and focus on who may win the world series, you’ll probably never notice it though, unless you find yourself at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Our job, our duty, is to reverse this march to - fascism, socialism, marxism - whatever hideous hybrid has been hatched.
Mr. Obama even sticks his chin out like Il Duce. All that is lacking is the uniform.
That is not only a superficial anarchist view of the word, but flat out wrong.
The totalitarian, arbitrary control of the minutiae of individual lives is more the hallmark of Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot.
Sure, oppression in varying degress is common both to marxism and fascism, but what is unique to fascism is the micromanagement of private industries and institutions while maintaining the fiction that they are "independent."
The profoundest irony is that as a group, Obama supporters who play free and loose with labels like "fascist!" have the most tenuous grasp of what they're talking about.
One has only to pay attention to TV commercials to see
the depth the tendrils of government have reached.
I watched a car commercial the other night, it ended
with the saying, “Change is good!”. Now, where have
we heard that before? Yes the Obama campaign,
and the car company...............GM!
As I have posted before, Harvard historian Gaetano Salvemini pointed out back in 1936 that even with government interventionism of FDR, America wasn't "fascist" at the time (because we retained personal freedoms), but in describing the economics of Fascist Italy, he noted:
"In actual fact, it is the State, i.e. the taxpayer, who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State pays for the blunders of private enterprise. As long as business was good, profit remained to private initiative. When the depression came, the Government added the loss to the tax-payer's burden. Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social."That seems to me to be a pretty good description of what we see in America today, with bailouts, etc. Wouldn't you agree?--Under the Axe of Fascism, by Gaetano Salvemini, p. 416 (1936).
Salvemini then went on to discuss the bailouts, which were targeted to large corporations but not small businesses.
"In December 1932 a Fascist financial expert, Signor Mazuchelli, estimated that more than 8.5 billion lire had been paid out by the Government from 1923 to 1932 in order to help depressed industries (Rivista Bancaria, December 15th, 1932, p.1,007). From December 1932 to 1935 the outlay must have doubled."Thank you, Bush/Obama. :-(--Under the Axe of Fascism, by Gaetano Salvemini (1936).