It’s picking up some steam. Liberals have decided a good strategy would be to LABEL the Republicans with a name, a name with NASTY, EVIL connotations. They feel that the right has denigrated the term “liberal” and have convinced the majority of the public that “liberal” is bad.
Unfortunately for them, the term “liberal” actually stands for things such as socialism, more government, higher taxes, income redistribution, being wealthy in bad, corporations are evil, military strength is bad, appeasement is good, we don’t want to be better than anyone else, success is terrible, etc… I could go on. “Liberal” stands for these things and more, and the public understands this. It is an unacceptable stance for the American people. They said so in November.
Liberals won’t or can’t accept this. They believe the majority of people believe in these ideas despite the 60,000,000 votes against them. So now, liberals believe they can label the right. First there were labels, or name-calling, such as: right-wingers, religious-right, neo-conservatives, neo-cons, right-wing zealot, and Nazis. Now they are attempting a new label, fascists. It has an evil connotation. It couples with the previous Nazi, and the current “Bush is Hitler” mantra. Will it work? Has their name calling worked in the past? Of course not. It hasn’t worked because the facts belie the label. The truth always seems to win out in these instances. If the label doesn’t fit the facts, the facts win. The public understands this even if liberals don’t.
So what is fascism? By definition: Fascism is: 1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
Hmmm…interesting. Bush, the president calling for the ownership society, who believes in individual freedoms and choices with accountability and responsibility, is a fascist? By definition, he is exactly the opposite. He wants freedom from government for the individual and businesses. He believes anyone can move anywhere in the socioeconomic ladder by the degree in which they work and put forth effort. The basic construct of our government prohibits dictatorial leadership.
Now, let’s look at liberals, and how they fit into this “fascist” model. Bush selected Condi Rice, a black woman, for Secretary of State; she was opposed by more Democrats that opposed a nomination in about 150 years. Bush appointed Alberto Gonzalez, an Hispanic, to Attorney General; the Dems opposed him in large numbers as well. Why do liberals hate conservative minorities? It seems they are putting race above the individual.
Howard Dean and the Democratic Party agenda want redistribution of income. Dems want to tax the rich and give entitlements to the poor. Dems want to punish individuals and businesses for making profits. Dems want to control business with regulations and taxation. Dems want to take those profits away by taxation. Dem’s entitlement culture will inevitably keep people in their current socioeconomic state with very little mobility. Dems want to control the media through legislation and regulation. Dems want free speech unless its speech they don’t agree with. Dems want to rid themselves of opposition, remember what’s been said of Zell Miller by Dems. Dems want to eliminate religion, and indoctrinate kids with their agenda through public education.
I could go on.
So what party better exemplifies “fascists”? Yes it is the left, the liberals, the Democrats. Of course their agenda matches fascism more accurately than the Republican agenda; it is socialist in nature. As the left moves farther and farther left, away from the majority of the American people, it moves closer and closer to communism. In fact, the left’s new label will be “progressive”, a step to the “left” of “liberal”, and one step away from communism. They are no longer the Democratic Party of John F. Kennedy who said, “And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” They have become the Ted Kennedy Party who would have said,” And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your country can do for you.”