Posted on 11/24/2009 7:19:45 PM PST by neverdem
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Thanks for posting.
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Chapter 3: Woodrow Wilson
and the Birth of Liberal Fascism
Thanks for posting this. It’s the best article I’ve read on this subject in years.
Wilson getting the U.S. involved lead to all the wars after that and the leftism of the United States.
Which is exactly why they are spiteful, vindictive and truly illiberal.
Thanks from me too Neverdem. This one’s a keeper. You done good.
The article would be more accurate if the bracketed materials were added: “The root of liberalism, wrote Stearns, is hatred of compulsion [of liberals].”
Under the Sedition Act of 1918, people were sentenced to 10 years in prison for saying that they preferred the Kaiser to Wilson; others were jailed for mocking salesmen of Liberty Bonds, which supported the war effort. Most famously, socialist leader Debs was jailed for criticizing conscription.
Thus always with "progressives."
The “Red Scare” was justified. Leon Czolgosz was inspired to murder President McKinley by one of those Palmer deported—Emma Goldman.We now know from the Soviet archives John Reed was one of five Americans who received over $1,000,000 from Lenin to foment a revolution in America . Big bucks at that time. Reed was stopped in Finland. The other money got here (and probably lots more, the Bolsheviks laundered the property they stole in, among other places, NYC). We know the code names of those involved but not their actual identities (a good guess however would be some of the founders of the ACLU which had been created as a reaction to the so-called “Red Scare).
Yes.
Yes, and, a quote from B. Russell: “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”
Expect such as the O administration is challenged and more recognized for what it is...the hostility will no know bounds.
That certainly applies to nearly every movement or group associated with so called progressivism. Watch how they feed on anyone who dares to break away, watch how they treat the identities that dont fall in line. Its actually quite remarkable that people can’t see what they are. Down right perplexing.
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I agree. Europe was a mess then on all sides with even the British being only marginally more acceptable in terms of liberty than the Germans.
WWI was something that was was not worth the sacrifices the US made in getting involved. IMHO, the job of a president then should have been to finding a way to bring the opposing sides (other than the French, all blood related BTW) together to end the madness via some sort of face saving agreement, not to support one side over the other which we did de-facto if not via policy from the start.
Wilson did not show leadership there and WWII/the Cold War was the result.
Wildon was Jimmy Carter the First --- full of 'good intentions' that all turned into disasters.
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How true. First the utopians say they love their society, but want to change it. Then, when it doesn’t change, or change to their liking, they turn against it. Then, when it reacts to them, or worse, ignores them, they become its victims. All the while, they insist on living in it and enjoying its benefits as a birthright. Ultimately, it’s all about them and only about them.
Sounds like a thundering shortage of humility to me, among these contemptuous, self-consequent, Red-coddling little prigs.
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