Reply #157: Then you thank God for the incoming Fascist State we are about to fully realize? [View All]

[ShortnFiery]

I choose to love, instead, REGULATED Capitalism. You know when there's actually *competition* among say Media Outlets and Radios stations?!?

What we are in the process of realizing now is a MERGING of Government and large Multi-National Corporations (see Halliburton moving main office overseas).

We need REGULATION of these mega-corporations. Ideally we need to decentralize their control by breaking them up for SMALL BUSINESS OWNERSHIP.

If you still think, "Thank God for Corporations" please consider this:

"Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary... does not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal." _Benito Mussolini :wow:

http://www.remember.org/hist.root.what.html

AND THIS

The U.S. Constitution was written by individuals who believed in the classical liberal philosophy of individual rights and sought to protect those rights from governmental encroachment. But since the fascist/collectivist philosophy has been so influential, policy reforms over the past half century have all but abolished many of these rights by simply ignoring many of the provisions in the Constitution that were designed to protect them. As legal scholar Richard Epstein has observed: "he eminent domain . . . and parallel clauses in the Constitution render . . . suspect many of the heralded reforms and institutions of the twentieth century: zoning, rent control, workers' compensation laws, transfer payments, progressive taxation." It is important to note that most of these reforms were initially adopted during the '30s, when the fascist/collectivist philosophy was in its heyday.

Planned industrial "harmony." Another keystone of Italian corporatism was the idea that the government's interventions in the economy should not be conducted on an ad hoc basis, but should be "coordinated" by some kind of central planning board. Government intervention in Italy was "too diverse, varied, contrasting. There has been disorganic . . . intervention, case by case, as the need arises," Mussolini complained in 1935. Fascism would correct this by directing the economy toward "certain fixed objectives" and would "introduce order in the economic field." Corporatist planning, according to Mussolini adviser Fausto Pitigliani, would give government intervention in the Italian economy a certain "unity of aim," as defined by the government planners.

These exact sentiments were expressed by Robert Reich (current U.S. Secretary of Labor) and Ira Magaziner (current federal government's health care reform "Czar") in their book Minding America's Business. In order to counteract the "untidy marketplace," an interventionist industrial policy "must strive to integrate the full range of targeted government policies-procurement, research and development, trade, antitrust, tax credits, and subsidies-into a coherent strategy . . . ."

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Virtually all of the specific economic policies advocated by the Italian and German fascists of the 1930s have also been adopted in the United States in some form, and continue to be adopted to this day. Sixty years ago, those who adopted these interventionist policies in Italy and Germany did so because they wanted to destroy economic liberty, free enterprise, and individualism. Only if these institutions were abolished could they hope to achieve the kind of totalitarian state they had in mind.

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IMO if we don't wash out the Pro-Corporatist (anti-regulated capitalism) out of The Democratic Party, we will be enveloped by the full realization of FASCISM.

Welcome my son, welcome the the CORPORATE MACHINE. The Corporate United States of America. :scared: