Fascism, Here We Come

The other day, Obama fired the CEO of GM. Yep, a sitting president actually dictated that a public company's head would step down. Did GM ask for this? You bet. The day they decided to deal with the devil, they should have known that they'd get burned. The Government is giving the money, but dictating exactly how it can be used. Alone, that concept isn't all that far-fetched; after all, if somebody wanted money from me, then I would want to know what they were going to do with it. I wouldn't force them to spend one way or another, but I would certainly withhold funds if they were going to do something I didn't agree with.

The difference between me and the government is that I can't just create money out of thin air. If I could, then I could go around and give people tons of money just to do with it what I wanted them to do with it. If I could print money, then I could go to the struggling automakers and say, "Look, I can help you out, but I want you to start making nothing but hybrids". (Just wait...)

Do you see how immoral this is? The Government can make as much money as it needs to in order to establish and direct its agenda. So what if the majority of Americans don't buy Hybrids, the Government can now force you to buy them. So what if the financial sector is a mess and people were profiting by selling nothing but prettied-up crappy mortgages? With unlimited money anything can be directed fixed.

The U.S. Government is acting like a loan shark and counterfeiter rolled into one. Oh, sure, it's real money; it's just that it is backed by NOTHING. Plus, it has the not-so-cool side effect of reducing the value of the pre-existing dollars (i.e. inflation).

On top of the GM deal, Chrysler is being forced to merge with Fiat in order to also keep receiving funds. As my title suggests, it's just two more steps closer to fascism.

No, I'm not comparing Obama to Hitler and Mussolini. If you look around, you'll see that the word 'fascism' has come to be identified primarily with those two, when in fact it merely provided the building blocks for their radical viewpoints and agendas. You don't have to be a radical nationalist (Mussolini) to be a fascist, and you certainly don't have to be racist (Hitler) to support a fascist state. The definition of fascism is:

A governmental system with strong centralized power, permitting no opposition or criticism, controlling all affairs of the nation (industrial, commercial, etc.)"

Doesn't sound so dissimilar to our direction now, does it? I'm NOT saying we're there...yet. I'm saying that with moves like the GM firing, we move a little closer toward that end.

Read these statements, and see if you spot any parallels between them and the voiced viewpoints of some of our elected officials:

We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunities for employment and earning a living.

The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and for the good of all.

Therefore, we demand:...an end to the power of the financial interests.

We demand profit sharing in big business.

We demand a broad extension of care for the aged.

We demand...the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of the national, state and municipal governments.

In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education...We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents...

The government must undertake the improvement of public health -- by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth.

[We] combat the...materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of The Common Good Before the Individual Good .

Sound familiar? I'll bet you've heard some of these very things over the years in our country. The thing is that these are not new concepts, though the source for these statements might surprise you.

They come directly from the Nazi party platform, adopted in 1920.

There's no doubt that Hitler was an evil man promoting evil actions. There's also no doubt that Obama is NOT an evil man like Hitler. However, there are striking similarities between the values and principles of the fascist movement in 1920 and the values and principles of some of our people and politicians today.

I'm sure our founding fathers are reeling from dizziness after having rolled over in their graves countless times over the past decades as we slowly eroded their own values and principles away.