Fascism and Fake Democrats

*7/26/11*
Centrism': The Cult That Is Destroying America
by Paul Krugman
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/26-12

*7/15/11*
"One would have thought the last few years of mine disasters, exploding oil rigs, nuclear meltdowns, malfeasance on Wall Street, wildly-escalating costs of health insurance, rip-roaring CEO pay, and mass layoffs would have offered a singular opportunity to explain why the nation's collective well-being requires a strong and effective government representing the interests of average people.

Yet the case has not been made. Perhaps that's because, even under the Democrats, the interests of average people have not been sufficiently attended to." -Robert Reich
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/15-8

*9/2/10*
Can You Say, Fascism? The Political Consequences of Stagnation
by Walden Bello

[Paul] Krugman predicts that the likely electoral results in November "will paralyze policy for years to come." But nature abhors a vacuum, and the common failure of both market fundamentalists and technocratic Keynesians so far to address the fears of the unemployed, the about-to-be unemployed, and the vast numbers of economically insecure people will most likely produce social forces that would tackle their fears and problems head-on.

A failure of the left to innovatively fill this space will inevitably spawn a reinvigorated right with fewer apprehensions about state intervention, one that could combine technocratic Keynesian initiatives with a populist but reactionary social and cultural program.There is a term for such a regime: fascist. As Roger Bootle, author of The Trouble with Markets, reminds us, millions of Germans were disillusioned with the free market and capitalism during the Great Depression. But with the failure of the left to provide a viable alternative, they became vulnerable to the rhetoric of a party that, once it came to power, combined Keynesian pump-priming measures that brought unemployment down to 3 percent with a devastating counterrevolutionary social and cultural program.

Fascism in the United States? It's not as far-fetched as you might think.

http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_political_consequences_of_stagnation

*8/10/10*
Robert Gibbs Attacks The Fringe Losers Of The Left

You may think that the reason you're dissatisfied with the Obama administration is because of substantive objections to their policies: that they've done so little about crisis-level unemployment, foreclosures and widespread economic misery. Or because of the White House's apparently endless devotion to Wall Street. Or because the President has escalated a miserable, pointless and unwinnable war that is entering its ninth year. Or because he has claimed the power to imprison people for life with no charges and to assassinate American citizens without due process, intensified the secrecy weapons and immunity instruments abused by his predecessor, and found all new ways of denying habeas corpus. Or because he granted full-scale legal immunity to those who committed serious crimes in the last administration. Or because he's failed to fulfill - or affirmatively broken - promises ranging from transparency to gay rights.

But Robert Gibbs - in one of the most petulant, self-pitying outbursts seen from a top political official in recent memory, half derived from a paranoid Richard Nixon rant and the other half from a Sean Hannity/Sarah Palin caricature of The Far Left - is here to tell you that the real reason you're dissatisfied with the President is because you're a fringe, ideological, Leftist extremist ingrate who needs drug counseling...

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/10/gibbs

*5/24/09*
Democratic Socialists? Democrats not half that good
by Bob Fitrakis
http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/nationofgandhis/Cqvv/commentary

Bill Maher On Fake Democrats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GreojU4AgY

Political spectrum then and now.

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[onlyAerik]

the forrest gump theme?

[ThisWeekInFascism]

@onlyAerik Yup. Life is like a box of right-wingers. You always know you're gonna' get it in the ass.

[needlermasta]

Why are democracts on lthe left and republicans on the right.

[ThisWeekInFascism]

Visually, something on the left or moving to the left is more "uncomfortable" than something on the right or moving to the right. The reversed placement has nothing to do with left-right politically, only visually. Visualizing from left to right is more comfortable because that's how we read. For ex., saying "left right" feels more comfortable than saying "right left" because "right left" sounds, and is, backwards. It's also aligned better with the title words.

btw: It's spelled "democrats"

[KommisarKowl]

The sycophants to the Republican party who read "Liberal Fascism" and claim that Fascism is far leftist have never taken a High School Social Studies course. The Right doesn't mean "no state." The Left doesn't either. One can be a libertarian leftist or a libertarian rightist. The difference is a Libertarian leftist believes that workers should work cooperatively and own the means of production and the rightists believe that workers are subject to corporate executives.

[MrMrbobblehead]

yea they say we re pro goverment but wants the goverment to censor what we see they want small gov but tell gay people they have no rights they want small go but wants the gov to build a fence on the border everything they say contradicts itself exept the trickle down effect

[mrx0066600]

Very well done graph. This is exactly what we have today.

and actually Obama is a line that is constantly moving further above what was the right wing line as the right wing continually moves their line further to their side because they know Obama would follow and give them more.

[cpufightclub]

Good video.

[carnypimp]

Wow somebody gets it! To many cheifs(management) not enough Indians ( democrats).

[chuck3377]

WELL DONE, WE DO NOW LIVE IN A CORPORATE FACSIST SYSTEM, THIS IS THE FINAL BATTLE FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS, THE CORPORATE FACSIST/POLITCAL ELITES WANT A 2 CLASS GLOBAL SYSTEM, RICH N POOR, 2% VS 98%

[CosmosPrivateer]

@ThisWeekInFascism

I think people are just plain lazy. The political system is setup to make things easy. You have 2 choices right or left and a bunch of people with their own agendas telling us how it is.

We basically are good lazy people that don't know how to govern ourselves so someone else does it for us.

Maybe in 100 years or so we may figure it out.