Posted on 01/14/2014 12:59:37 PM PST by MosesKnows
Yeah, that’s what I say when progs deny that Obama is a socialist.
“Yeah, you’re right, he’s more of a fascist than anything.”
They hate that, because “right wingers” are fascists, not them!
Agreed.
Reddit.
That's all I'm sayin.
American conservatism is, IMHO, best defined by T. Roosevelt’s “man in the arena” speech.
OTOH socialism is best understood as the theory that the critic - in the person of the journalism monopoly, and in the person of politicians who toady to the journalism monopoly - deserves the credit, and the man who is actually in the arena deserves only to be second-guessed and despised. This results in writers and journalists such as V. Lenin and B. Mussolini arrogating to themselves the authority over the entire country on the basis of their ability to snow “the masses.”
- From Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 speech at the Sarbonne:
- There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
I love it when they play the NAZI fascist card, I then spend the time to explain to them what NAZI stands for and how conservatives cannot be fascists.
Socialism is a rule by promise.
Darwin got it all wrong at the time.
It is practically impossible to make a human out of ape, but it is not that hard to make an ape out of human, using mass media, public indoctrination and making them addicted to free stuff.
As soon there are no critical thinking and a last for free stuff dominates the population you can see a herd of apes electing their dear leader for banana.
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