Nice fascism

Pericles knew that "Happiness depends on being free and freedom depends on being courageous." Freedom and democracy as interchangeable ideas, appeal to man’s basic instincts. Pericles’ inspiring words, however, leave open the possibility that courage can apply to the pursuit of an appealing evil. Fascism. Jonah Goldberg writes that "Fascism is the product of democracy gone mad." This 2008 season, we’re involved in two March madnesses; one from basketball finals, the other from nice Fascism. Fascism represents a 3rd seductive way between capitalism and socialism, a "middle" way offered, for example, by one Presidential candidate, Barak Obama as a way of hope and change. He and his opponent Hillary Clinton, attempt to sell Fascism as a way to restore in a person a sense of belonging to something larger than oneself. It sounds un-radical and moderate, but it’s still liberalism, Communism, Americanism ( a new name) and socialism, each a Fascist, progressive lie. In practice Fascism demonizes those who block the third way of a Utopian society. Mean Fascism of the past, often eliminated obstacles like the bourgeoises, the unfit, the greedy, the individualist, traitor, the Jew by murder. The progression of Fascism from its founding fathers - Rousseau, Robespierre, Marx and Lenin - represented a gradual meanness, an evil content. The targets of today’s nice, Fascist liberals differ. They include the capitalist, the obese, the wealthy, the stupid, the smoker, the self-reliant, the conservative, the military, the Christian, et alii. The hope and change preached by both Obama and his progressive, political rival Hellary, represent the "middle way" of nice, liberal Fascism.