Kevin Cunningham wrote:
On May 27, 7:53 pm, wrote:
On May 27, 2:17 am, Gary Forbis wrote:
Repetition doesn't make Liberals "Fascists".
Fascism is a right wing concept and goal.
Liberals favor democratic rule over dictatorships.
Publik School Neo-Commie brainwashing is a terrible thing to waste
Yet another Liberal Fascist propaganda lie by yet another ignorant
Liberal Fascist.
This is getting to be fun entertainment. Like watching Kernal Klink
and Sargent Shultz - ROTFLMAO!
HEIL LIBERAL FASCIST HITLER!!!
Once again, you right wing weirdos are happy to use a term, unhappy to
define the term. So tell us, moron, what is a liberal fascist? A
fascist who is to the liberal side?
Modern Republicans and Democrats both misuse the term "fascist" --
and to such a degree that the misuse has started to be enshrined in
dictionaries.
In the broad sense, the term (from the Latin for "bundle") just
means the strength of a united people -- as in the ancient Roman
story in which a father asks his sons to gather sticks from the
forest and bring them to him. Taking the wooden rods one at a time,
he easily breaks each of them in two. But when the very same rods
are bound together -- symbolizing a united family or people -- they
are unbreakable.
The fascist symbol, or _fasces_, thus became the symbol of the Roman
Republic and its ideals. It was also used by the French republic,
was adopted by Mussolini's 20th century Fascist movement, and was
also used by the United States during the same era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
The U.S. dime displayed the fascist symbol on its reverse from
1916-1945 See
http://www.mountainviewcoins.com/10%...rse%201926.jpg
and
http://www.mountainviewcoins.com/Mercury_Dimes.php
and it is displayed prominently to this day in the main chamber of
the U.S. Senate:
http://tinyurl.com/jfk-fasces
It's also a prominent element of Daniel Chester French's highly
idealized sculpture in the Lincoln Memorial.
In the narrow sense, fascism means specifically the social movement
popularized by Benito Mussolini and to some degree carried on into
more recent times by the Movimento Sociale Italiano.
It was characterized by the ideal of the state as expressing the
will of the people, with the people being an organic, natural
entity, not divided into classes with differing economic interests
but instead with each sector of society (such as farmers, laborers,
administrators, merchants, et cetera) able to elect its own
legislative representatives. In practice, many compromises were made
with allies and with the old order of things.
The central government and ruling party had a lot of authority under
Italian fascism, and that is really the only similarity real fascism
shares with the pop-definition of the word. But other central
governments and parties past and present had similar or greater
degrees of authority -- such in fact being the norm for almost all
human societies throughout history.
The pop-definition of "fascist" is roughly "big, bad, scary, and
mean authoritarianism."
"Fascist" is used by the Democrat gang to refer to the Republicans
and their often authoritarian views on (among other things) war,
drugs, and sexuality -- and by the Republican gang to refer to the
Democrats and their often authoritarian views on (among other
things) freedom of association, financial privacy, and taxation.
It's misused that way because both sides think they can make brownie
points by scaring voters with the spectre of authoritarianism from
the rival gang.
Here's the truth: both modern Republicans and modern Democrats score
pretty high on the authoritarianism scale -- somewhat higher, I'd
say, than the Movimento Sociale Italiano.
With every good wish,
Kevin Alfred Strom.
--
http://kevinalfredstrom.com/