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For all my undeservedly long life, I have heard the
term Fascist! thrown about with zeal towards the enemy of the day for this
faction or that. Early on I decided to study same to see just what makes one a
Fascist. It became very clear that the basis of the majority of the spittled
derogatory was founded in a lie of Liberalism. It is a testament to the
importance of education to witness this vitriolic hatred of Fascists projected
upon their innocent enemy; We The People. The truth, a crystal of ice
in the glacier of public discourse, is so easily found yet so universally
ignored. I venture to say that most Americans, and 98% of ‘smart people’ do not
know what Fascism really means.
My early investigation consisted of history books and
documentaries about Mussolini and Hitler, the two universally known Fascists in
World History. It didn’t take long to realize that these two vile individuals
did not fit the majority of the people who were being called Fascist. Barry
Goldwater, an Arizona Senator and 1964 presidential candidate, was called a
Fascist; as was Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Malcolm X and the National Front
(a UK group on the rise in the ‘70’s). Even Jews were (and are still) called
Fascists. The oddity of course, is that none of these individuals or groups
champion(ed) State control; a
central tenet of Fascism! How can this be? Again, it is borne in the womb of
Liberal ideology; LYING.
All aspects of Liberalism are lies; they must be. The
core principle of Liberalism/Marxism/Communism et al, is control. They seek to
control your life. Of course, the purveyors of this evil learned very early on
that if you tell people you intend to control them they naturally reject the
notion. It is counter-intuitive to human nature to be controlled. Therefore,
all strategizing concerning the implementation of Liberal Ideology must hide
the true intent. They must lie to spread their faith. This has not always been
true. They used to use violence and armed revolution to spread their evil. But
they always failed. Therefore, they have morphed into a ‘democratic’ revolution
which requires them to actually win elections in Western democracies. Hence the
need to lie in order to win. None other than Barak Hussein Obama noted this
very transition when he said (and I am paraphrasing) “…I came to understand
that we would not achieve this change through violent revolution, but by
working within the system…” How ironic that now, having failed miserably to capitalize
on his victories, culminating in the humiliating defeat of Hillary Clinton to
Donald Trump; this very man is reverting to the old stand-by of violence,
funding and coordinating riots across America to ‘protest’ the election of Mr.
Trump.
Barak Obama provides a perfect segway to what has
become a resurgence of the term, Fascist; first by his opponents and more
recently by his followers. This rekindled my interest in the actual facts about
Fascism. My latest reading, Fascism: The
Career of a Concept has author and professor Paul E. Gottfried attempting
to inform us that we are too loose with our charge, that Fascism is a reaction
of the revolutionary ‘Right’ to the revolutionary ‘Left’. He goes on to contend
that in modern times, no revolutionary ‘Left’ exists and therefore, there can
be no Fascism. Were it to be so easy.
Jonah Goldberg contends in Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from
Mussolini to The Politics of Change (way too long a title there Jonah) that
Fascism is solely a construct of the ‘Left’, a conclusion the aforementioned
Mr. Gottfried finds over-simplistic. What is one to do in this age of Fake News
and propaganda? When ‘documentaries’ are no more than political hit pieces?
When academia is more concerned with bathroom attendance than intellectual
discourse? When the greatest of sports heroes are more involved in killing cops
than scoring a touchdown? How is the average Joe supposed to know what a
Fascist really is?
Here’s a thought. How
about we ask the undisputed, world renown, hands down, bar none Father of
Fascism, Benito Mussolini
"Anti-individualistic,
the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts
the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the
State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a
historic entity." - Benito Mussolini
In rejecting
democracy Fascism rejects the absurd conventional lie of political
equalitarianism, the habit of collective irresponsibility, the myth of felicity
and indefinite progress. But if democracy be understood as meaning a regime in
which the masses are not driven back to the margin of the State, and
then the writer of these pages has already defined Fascism as an organized,
centralized, authoritarian democracy. – Benito Mussolini (emphasis mine)
The Fascist State organizes the
nation, but it leaves the individual adequate elbow room. It has curtailed useless
or harmful (who
decides?) liberties while preserving
those which are essential. In such matters the individual cannot be the judge, but the State only. – Benito
Mussolini (emphasis mine)
Please read
these quotes several times…digest them. There is one over-riding construct; the
State rules emphatically. Now YOU tell me, who does this sound like? Liberals
or conservatives?
There is no
Left or Right. That is the fallacy of modern political discourse. There is only
Liberty or Tyranny. Which of these does Fascism, as defined by its universally
accepted father, describe? Who tells you what size of soda you can purchase?
What kind of car you may drive? What type of light bulb you may use? Who you
must serve? What wages you must pay? What you may do with your land that you
own? What you can own? How you can defend yourself? Who must pay for baby
murder? How many immigrants you must absorb? What you can say and what you
cannot? Who? Of course you know….Democrats. Liberals. ‘Progressives’. Marxists.
Communists. In other words, the Fascist ‘Left’.
Now that you
know who the Fascists really are; what are you going to do about it?
Yours in Liberty,
Keith D. Rodebush
