Posted on 07/02/2013 6:18:38 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
“In the good old days,” writes Patterson, “Americans could at least count on business leaders being pro-American.
Who can honestly say that now?
Crony Capitalism aka Fascism.
Fascism is a form of Socialism. It's a left-wing collectivist philosophy which, on an economic level, forges an alliance between big government and big business. Tax policy, regulations and subsidies all play their part -- government helps business, if the business helps government. The businesses that don't play along are punished.
This is where we are today. The GOP is a socialist party, promoting fascism. And the Democrats are a socialist party promoting fascism.
There is only one party, folks. We live in a one-party state, and the Party is at war with you.
But, hey, I think American Idol is on.
But, hey, I think American Idol is on.
Sure or watch the important game.
Your correct point, that American business leaders are no longer pro-American but instead are globalists, has been a point that Buchanan has been harping on for at least two decades, and was part of the reason he split with the GOP.
“In the GOP the corporate conservative rides up front
Crony Capitalism aka Fascism.
Fascism is a form of Socialism. It’s a left-wing collectivist philosophy which, on an economic level, forges an alliance between big government and big business. Tax policy, regulations and subsidies all play their part — government helps business, if the business helps government. The businesses that don’t play along are punished.
This is where we are today. The GOP is a socialist party, promoting fascism. And the Democrats are a socialist party promoting fascism.
There is only one party, folks. We live in a one-party state, and the Party is at war with you.
But, hey, I think American Idol is on. “
Well a bit of bad news, American Idol will not be on again until next January.
Ping. For further contemplation
My Father was a “Yellow Dog Democrat” which meant he would vote for a yellow dog before a Republican. He was generally conservative but voted for Roosevelt, Truman and many local Democrats. Back then if you won the Democratic primary in our area of the state, you won the election.
I never heard the term “Blue Dog Democrat” until a few years ago but I guess it means the same thing.
Jimmy Carter did the impossible. He turned Daddy into a Republican. He and Mother voted for Reagan and never looked back.
They weren’t Reagan Democrats. They completely changed. They were Reagan Republicans.
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I think Obama has had a similar effect on many people ay today Carter did on your dad back then. Once people see a true dyed-in-the-wool Lefty in the White House and see how complicit the media is in forwarding an agenda that most Americans disagree with, it causes (honest and/or intelligent) people to ask questions and consider other options.
does it really matter how many voters barry runs off with his leftism if he controls the counting of the votes?
The irony for the GOP is that by selling out to the corporate fascists, all the dispaced formerly productive workers were driven onto democrat dependency plantation. Now they can’t cobble together a majority and never will again. The GOP fascists played themselves for suckers.
A “Yellow Dog Democrat” was not much different than today’s Democrat voters. They were culturally conservative but their hands were out for the free government handouts. That was true in the 1930’s and it is still true. I honestly believe we lost the election because we promised to create millions of new jobs, that scared the hell out of lot of people. The 53% want disability payments not jobs.
“Could it be that the men who create wealth today have at best been trained to think that America is no better than any other country?”
#1 post of the day.
Note: our President doesn’t believe in ‘American Exceptionalism’.
The demonrats have the historical cred of "winning the Big One" and have been good at showing the right face and/or making the GOPe show the wrong one.
Underneath the facade, they only differ by "the companies they keep", so to speak in that crony capitalism sort of way we've come to know so well.
The only questions are whether we're tired of doing this and if so, what we'd like to do instead.
We aren't going to break this habit until we do. Same old, same old is their way.
That certainly doesn’t describe my parents. Neither of them ever accepted any kind of Government assistance except Daddy had a VA loan which he qualified for in WWII.
In Daddy’s last year he was in a nursing home. His retirement pay was within around $40 short of paying for his monthly bill so they put him on Medicaid just to get that extra $40.
Pat has been prescient, which is of course good. John of Patmos was divinely inspired, which is even better. He revealed the truth of these days as if it were on a movie screen as large as the sky itself, a couple of thousand of years ago.
Thanks for the Takimag articles, great lot of contributors they have. When I read articles from smart and courageous people such as these writers, I get a feeling of “learn all you can while it lasts, because it won’t last forever”. Maybe not even the span of my life, I don’t know.
The “Right” (as distinct from us conservatives on the right) loses its best and brightest by treating them as intruders to be repelled, such as Buchanan and Derbyshire. They’re (the “Right”) not that stupid, not the ones pulling the strings-it must be on purpose.
No. The elites are intentionally globalist.
Bump for later.
The original yellow dog Democrats were pro-Confederate, I believe.
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