Quote: (05-15-2012 01:17 PM)Tuthmosis Wrote:
That's some insanely delusional, revisionist history if I've ever seen it. He's trying to affix the term "Fascist," with all of its negative associations (mostly generic, by people who don't know what it means) to the Left--when, in fact, true Fascism is an extreme Right movement.
Words have actual meanings. This guy--who is thoroughly unqualified to write this shit--is trying to ignore those meanings and create his own. You're entitled to your own opinion, as they say, not your own facts.
So I take it then you HAVEN'T read the book?
See when most people think of fascism they think of goose steps, concentration camps, the holocaust, unthinking nationalism.
But Goldberg's book, while it takes into account how fascist strains morphed into that particular vision, does a really good job of showing how modern progressivist thinking has, at its roots, some of (NOT ALL!) of the components of fascism.
It was no accident that it was was called the National SOCIALIST Party.
And you know who LOVED Mussolini in the 30s? Key member of the Democratic Party.
When Hilary Clinton writes a book with the title "It Takes a Village" and says that, you know, when you're in the DMZ and getting your license, the TVs should be broadcasting tips on how to raise kids...well, if it doesn't creep you out, it should.
So, no, modern liberals are not "fascists" in the way that Hitler and Mussolini morphed into monsters.
But there is, on the liberal side of the spectrum, a disturbing tendency to "soft totalitarianism" -- telling you what health insurance you should have, what you should eat, and how you should think.
No one can deny it.