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The generally ignored lesson in the story about the boy who cried wolf is that eventually the wolf did show up. I’m asking that the reader consider that fact and hold any objections until carefully considering what I am about to suggest. This is not really an attack on the rank and file Liberal/Leftist/Progressive. This is an attempt to separate the rhetoric from the reality and examine the facts. In this case I’d like you to consider that actions do, sometimes, speak louder than words.
This all started when I wondered to myself why it was that with Democratic control of both houses of Congress and a Progressive President so little had been done to address the fraud and mismanagement that has become so glaringly evident in relation to the “Big Banks” as well as the largest Wall Street Firms. We can argue who did what when and we can point fingers at various elected officials, but regardless of those answers, and even regardless of whether we agree on the particular names, it seems to me that we would have to agree that not much has changed. I would also suggest that there would seem to be no bigger target for someone truly embracing the ideology of the Left than Big Banks and Big Wall Street. We have “capitalists”, the “uber wealthy”, manipulation of the system, obscene profits, insider trading, incredible compensation, “unpatriotic” behavior, exploitation of the poorer by the richer, the economy in shambles, the rich getting richer while the rest of us are getting poorer, secret meetings in “smoke filled rooms” creating and implementing policy at the highest reaches of government, and possibly the complete collapse of the American Economy and yet, no real attempt to curb any of these excesses but rather we see even more dollars being printed to prop these very same players up. To coin a phrase…”What gives”?
It was then that I realized how fascist the Left had become, not to suggest that most of the politicians from the Right are any less culpable. I ask that you not react emotionally, at least quite yet, to the term fascist, rather I ask that you examine the facts, and allow me to compare these facts to some frightening similarities prior to, and during, Nazi Germany.
Without getting mired in the minutia of what, exactly, constitutes the Left, I would suggest that its adherents are opposed to large privately held corporations, are opposed to huge discrepancies in pay schedules, are opposed to large profits being made solely by manipulating capital, and claim that their focus is on “the little guy”. The interesting thing is that the NAZI party started out, as suggested by its name, as a “socialistic” party. Let’s not get bogged down on that point for now, but let’s just take a look at what actually occurred. Regardless of its beginnings, no one can really argue that Germany’s largest corporations were nationalized to the point that the State became the legal owner of the enterprise. The point is that the “rich” of the nation co-opted the movement and thereafter maintained an uneasy alliance with the State. I’d suggest what we are seeing now is much closer to that scenario. What we have is the leaders of the so-called Left joining with the uber wealthy, the government workers, and the larger Unions which, in my view, is the very definition of fascism. We see no real programs designed to help the “main street’ economy and even the programs that claim to aid the less fortunate don’t empower those it purports to aid, but rather ties them even more closely to government. “Stimulus” funds and bailout dollars generally circulate amongst the traditional partners of a fascist State. Even the rhetoric that “we” all need to make sacrifices for the good of the State, meaning the interests I just mentioned, are fully in line with my understanding of fascism. It doesn’t take much of a stretch to include the fact that we are heavily committed to a war with no end. Plenty has been said about our corresponding loss of freedoms, but this article is written to suggest that, for now, one should avoid denying the fascist tendencies of our present leadership simply because we don’t see that many “brown shirts” around, although some would suggest that recent union actions suggest that we may not have long to wait.
I ask you to consider the following:
What form of government joins government, business, public workers, and private unions? What type of government relies heavily on government spending? What type of government demonizes its domestic opponents for who they are, rather than what they believe? What type of government calls their opponents “the enemy”? What type of government wishes to retain complete control of the economy and dole out its favors as it sees fit? What type of government favors Big Business over small? What kind of government attacks its ideological opponents, including, primarily, religious value systems? What kind of government attempts to change the history of the past to form a foundation for the future? What kind of government disseminates propaganda and attempts to control the press? I'd suggest that one might pick and choose from the list, but only one form meets the criteria in total.
Before you cry “foul” I suggest you look not at what you have been promised, but what you are getting. This is no exclusive attack on the Left, or those who purport to be from the Left. I’m simply suggesting that the same people who question who the true “Christians” are might do well to take a good look on their own side of the aisle. I’ve made no secret of my disdain for the Left, but at least let’s see you address some of the problems with the type of solutions that most of America can support. In other words, on the one issue that you had a winner…and had the power..you failed miserably.
