tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post1443218790567358329..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: Liberal FascismDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-55802539721861449582008-01-04T14:16:00.000-08:002008-01-04T14:16:00.000-08:00Quite a few writers have interpreted liberalism as...Quite a few writers have interpreted liberalism as a type of fascism. I have read a bit of Goldberg and agree with some of his assertions, though I think he misreads statism and nationalism as types of liberalism. The jargon and ism's become tiresome, but I don't think the rights outlined in the Constitution are fascist; that is classical liberalism, which many modern statist leftists (called liberals, somewhat erroneously) overlook or misconstrue. Some people refer to Hillary as a liberal, but she's really more like a statist-socialist (as her health care plans indicate). The nazi government had some socialist aspects, but of course they did not allow for rights or Due Process or a free press as the US or most liberal democracies do. Nazis like Goering--a real monster, and probably as responsible for the 3rd Reich as Hitler was--- also enjoyed playing the part of aristocrats as well. <BR/><BR/>The more relevant similarities seem to hold between say a marxist-state (like Stalinism) and the nazi state, though of course the nazis detested the bolsheviks. And marxists like fascists both follow the Hegelian system--Hegel perhaps the great prophet of totalitarianism. Both regimes denied rights, and practiced racial policies and a grand scale. The American "liberals" (really more socialist, even starting with FDR) tend more towards that soviet-statist model, then towards fascism, which was very macho and romantic, and of course bloody. But even Il Duce (who probably did not know the extent of the nazi crimes) made the trains run on time, and made some economic progress. Il Duce was a bit of statist and a tyrant: nothing compared to the Stalinists--.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-75881080233534095592007-12-30T19:20:00.000-08:002007-12-30T19:20:00.000-08:00Irony is totally lost on some people. I wonder if...Irony is totally lost on some people. I wonder if there's a psychological explanation for that...?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04441629805934880186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-48902697538605823232007-12-29T18:06:00.000-08:002007-12-29T18:06:00.000-08:00This is an idea I have been discussing with my own...This is an idea I have been discussing with my own kids and with friends. If we cannot freely express ideas that are opposed to the status quo, then do we have freedom at all? I know that I quit Journalism as a major due to the idea that the printed word should be used to manipulate rather than report. It was interesting and I am sure that the "progressives" are doing what they tried to do with Glenn Beck's book and hide it from the shelves.Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.com