No April Fool

No April Fool
1. His play book: the creation of crises, nationalistic appeals to unity, the celebration of martial values, the blurring of lines between public and private sectors, the utilization of mass media to glamorize the state and its programs, invocations of a "post-partisan" spirit that places the important decisions in the hands of experts and intellectual supermen, and a cult of personality for the national leader.

2. The state must provide "a new basis of security and prosperity." My "second Bill of Rights" offers "a useful and remunerative job," a "decent home," "adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health," "adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unemployment,’ and "a good education."

3. "A place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where leisure is a welcome change to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community."
Minus the martial values and plus the guarantee of a woman’s right to choose abortion, all three above platforms continue today as embodiments of liberal fascism. 1. John F. Kennedy’s policies, 2. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s words and 3. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society couldn’t say the ‘F’ word better. The ‘ism’ prevalent on the left in 2008 is still Fascism, albeit a nicer Fascism. It crusades as socialism, secularism, nihilism, elitism, populism, statism, pacifism, liberalism, multi-culturalism, animal rights activism, moral relativism, pragmatism, sexism, consumerism, environmentalism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, lesbianism, Black nationalism and progressivism. Liberals on the left seek a "brave new world," fashioned out of a nicer Fascism.

Check out Jonah Goldberg’s book, LIBERAL FASCISM.