tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10932601.post8207991199707047532..comments2023-09-23T07:37:48.683-05:00Comments on Defenders Blog: Democrat party answer to high gas prices? More government controlRStar23http://www.blogger.com/profile/03225175664547749205noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10932601.post-30446222805992633552008-06-20T08:59:00.000-05:002008-06-20T08:59:00.000-05:00sure seems to me that most of the folks who talk a...sure seems to me that most of the folks who talk about fascism really don't know what they are talking about.<BR/><BR/>thanks for the definitions and great reminders. <BR/><BR/>as for leaving us alone - won't happen voluntarily - we have to MAKE them leave us alone.RStar23https://www.blogger.com/profile/03225175664547749205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10932601.post-53837383923896025772008-06-19T20:58:00.000-05:002008-06-19T20:58:00.000-05:00This is real fascism, not rhetorical fascism. Quot...This is real fascism, not rhetorical fascism. <BR/><BR/>Quote from <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism" REL="nofollow">Mussolini</A>:<BR/>"Anti-individualistic, the fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal will of man as a historic entity.... The fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.... Fascism is therefore opposed to that form of democracy which equates a nation to the majority, lowering it to the level of the largest number.... We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the 'right', a Fascist century. If the nineteenth century was the century of the individual we are free to believe that this is the 'collective' century, and therefore the century of the State."<BR/><BR/><BR/>And from Robert O. Paxton:<BR/>"Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."<BR/><BR/>"...a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond reach of traditional solutions; 2. belief one’s group is the victim, justifying any action without legal or moral limits; 3. need for authority by a natural leader above the law, relying on the superiority of his instincts; 4. right of the chosen people to dominate others without legal or moral restraint; 5. fear of foreign `contamination."<BR/><BR/><BR/>Now, read all of that and compare it to what's going on today. Not 100%, but a very high percentage. <BR/><BR/>The dems want to "nationalize" the oil companies. <BR/><BR/>What's next, tobacco? Automobiles? Airlines? Restaurants? Electricity? Railrods? Trucking? <BR/><BR/>All I have to say is: LEAVE US ALONE!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com