Fascism in America

[arisbe]

The Left has been denouncing American Fascism, indeed, denouncing America as Fascist, for so many years that we are deaf to the din of it. Lately, though, the warnings of an emerging Fascist mentality have been repeated from what some describe as the fringes of the Right, both the traditionalist (paleoconservative) and individualist (libertarian) wings. The American Conservative is seen as more moderate and mainstream, sceptical of big government, critical of the war, but willing to give both Republicans and Democrats the benefit of the doubt when they seem honest. It is therefore a milestone that even they are now insisting that we ought to take the threat very seriously indeed. Scott McConnell, a student of Fritz Stern, Columbia's great historian of the European Right, makes a sobering case, with the essential qualifications, in Hunger for Dictatorship: War to export democracy may wreck our own.

It is, I think, essential reading.

Comments

Re: Oh Goy!

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Well, not exactly. If so why did they have to mislead Congress?

The short answer is becuse they are dirty bastards...

[lilchiva.livejournal.com]

I would say because most reasonable people don't believe that a sustainable economy is based off of war. More over, most people (including our politicians), do not/can not think about the world in those terms and would be appalled to have to do so.

None of this changes the idea that this was part of the neocon's economic agenda (http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/apr03/131523.asp), in our long term economic/geopolitical plan (http://www.odci.gov/nic/special_globaltrends2010.html#middleeast) as a nation, and something planned and accepted since Kissinger was in the White House (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565845684/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/002-0108589-4031224).

Most simply there is more oil there than most places.

Re: The short answer is becuse they are dirty bastards...

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

The peak oil theory. Which many of them accept. And the threat that Saddam would sell his oil for Euros rather than US dollars and the rest of OPEC might follow.

I'm afraid you have a point here.