Is Ron Paul Right that Corporatism is Soft Fascism?

In response to Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul's identification of corporatism as a soft form of fascism on the December 23 edition of NBC's "Meet the Press," I made this video offering my analysis of that danger and a possible solution.

You can see Tim Russert's entire interview of Ron Paul from the December 23 edition of NBC's "Meet the Press" at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22379112#22378876

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[spiderman991]

@zaurakdigis You must be confused. Ron Paul is against bailing out big business. The financial crisis WAS an example of regulation leading to a catastrophic failure. Ron Paul would not allow money from the taxpayers to be used to bail out the rich - how is that fascist? Fascism promotes a single-party state. Like, um I don't know, where the government is headed? This is what happens when uneducated people think government knows all the solutions and should have their hands in everything.

[mbcannan]

Ron Paul is absolutely correct corporatism is a soft form of fascism Mussolini described it that way. Campaign wont work. What will is taking away the ability of the government to favor one corp or industry or group over the other "If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

[mrtuber88]

@superfisto Totally agree and campaign finance reform will not help this whatsoever...The rich will still find ways to pay politicians and give them under-the-table perks for passing favorable legislation for them that ends up screwing all of us. The only way to solve this is to decentralize the government and take this power away from the government. In my opinion, the only solution that will work is a more libertarian-based solution. DO pass campaign reform, but do not solely depend on it.

[superfisto]

Rather than give public money to candidates in order to compete with corporate money given to other candidates, why not limit the ability of the government to control the market, thus disinsentivising corporations from meddling with politics?

After all, when lobbyists so easily convince politicians to write laws that benefit the lobbyists' corporations, how can you trust politicians to write laws that will limit the influence of the lobbyists?

[devourerofbabies]

There is one reason and one reason alone that a government goes out of its way to draft and pass a bill that gives the government power to indefinitely detain citizens within its borders without charge or trial: because it intends to disappear people. Coupled with the patriot act, this is very scary. Fourth amendment gone. Fifth amendment gone. Habeus corpus gone. Why would a government seize these powers?

Because shit is about to get real.

[devourerofbabies]

@Terje1337 Small enough to be less affected? The smaller it is the easier it is to buy.

[MyDeadHorse]

Ron Paul has simply called a spade a spade. Corporations have succeeded in making a huge power grab and they use their financial clout to stack the legislative deck in their own favor. Until citizens "get" this they will continue to by hypnotized by the corporate controlled media and will continue to believe that there is a big difference between Republicans and Democrats. They truth is, they are just two heads of the same hydra.

[LancePoint9]

@Terje1337 The states are small enough to be more affordable for corporate control. State governments would be economy class governments to buy. This is why the state supreme court in Montana overturned Citizens united in that state, because the local government was being bought off by business interests. Ever hear the phrase, "Divide and conquer."

[Terje1337]

You are wrong here @liberalviewer. If you do what you call "real campaign finance reform" would be set in place, there is always other ways for corporation to pour money into candidates they like. The best way to fix the problem would be to rain in the federal power. remember that every state in united states is large enough to handle all the important functions of a country. And would be small enough to be less affected by corpuption.

making it less proftiable to corrupt politicans.

[Ghost9909]

Yes, Ron Paul is absolutely right. Government has crept into so many areas of our economy it's become accepted as normal or mainstream thinking. Look at banking, healthcare, transportation, energy, agriculture, and education for just a few examples. Money directs behavior in a market economy, and when the government took control of the currency it gained the ability to direct our economy. Favored businesses like Lockheed Martin and Goldman Sachs get special treatment. It's Democratic Fascism.