Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

July 4, 2004

GroupThink

Filed under: Society-Culture — Bunker @ 7:27 pm

Bob Just writes about what has happened to his Democratic Party in WorldNetDaily.

Now, 25 years later, I am ashamed to be a Democrat. More than that, I have come to fear my own party. Hatred and corruption – the roots of fascism – are on the march in America as they have never been before, and leading this march is the Democratic Party. Increasingly, mainstream Democrats are uncomfortable with what we see in our party. We may not have a real name for it, but we know it is dangerous.

I have people constantly tell me that “both sides do this all the time.” I don’t see it, but I allow them their fantasy. I agree that there are some on both ends of the political spectrum who engage in destructive policy, but the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy is imaginary. Just believes there really is, however, one on the left.

This is the groupthink that concerns me about what is happening in this country. The left has gone there already, and the right will eventually end up there as a defense mechanism.

Huey P. Long once observed that fascism would come from the left rather than right. Just agrees.

7 Comments

  1. Stuff like that gives me hope for November. Fahrencrap 9/11 brings dread. It’s going to be a long four months…

    Comment by Sarah — July 5, 2004 @ 12:48 am

  2. The same goes for the black community. If I could just find a way to reach them, to get them to let the groupthink go.

    Comment by La Shawn Barber — July 5, 2004 @ 12:28 pm

  3. Giuliani is a Leftist? Rememeber his mantra: Facist, but Friendly?

    Comment by rfidtag — July 6, 2004 @ 8:40 am

  4. Giuliani is an unknown entity to me. All I really know of him is his actions post-9/11, and the fact he cleaned up street crimes in Manhattan.

    I heard some of an interview of Ralph Nader this afternoon, and the discussion was whether he is a socialist. He claims not to be because in socialism the government owns business and he doesn’t advocate that. What the doesn’t say is that what he supports–government control of business–is fascism.

    It all kinda comes around, doesn’t it?

    Comment by Bunker — July 6, 2004 @ 7:47 pm

  5. Kinda comes around? Not really. Very narrow definition of Fascism. Go here for a broader picture.

    The word fascism has come to mean any system of government resembling Mussolini’s, that exalts nation and often race above the individual, and uses violence and modern techniques of propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition, engages in severe economic and social regimentation, and espouses nationalism and sometimes racism (ethnic nationalism). According to the libertarian Nolan chart, “fascism” occupies a place on the political spectrum as the capitalist equivalent of communism, wherein a system that supports economic liberty is constrained by its social controls such that it becomes virtually indistinguishable from totalitarianism.

    In an article in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana, written by Giovanni Gentile and attributed to Benito Mussolini, fascism is described as a system in which “The State not only is authority which governs and molds individual wills with laws and values of spiritual life, but it is also power which makes its will prevail abroad. …For the Fascist, everything is within the State and … neither individuals or groups are outside the State. …For Fascism, the State is an absolute, before which individuals or groups are only relative.”

    Mussolini in a speech delivered on October 28, 1925 delivered the following maxim which encapsulates the fascist philosophy: “Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato,” “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”.

    Sounds more like your ideal United States. Only with the word State replaced with Corporation.

    Comment by rfidtag — July 7, 2004 @ 8:49 am

  6. Which pretty much describes how Nader explained his views.

    An even broader description is evident within those you quoted. Fascism is government oversight of all social and cultural issues as well.

    Comment by Bunker — July 7, 2004 @ 10:54 am

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