"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, and carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis (1935)
Given the errosion of civil liberties and the movement towards a theocracy resulting from the current administration, do you agree that this is already taking place?
2006-09-25 06:27:14 · 15 answers · asked by gjstoryteller 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It was said again and said better by Henry A. Wallace, Roosevelt's Vice President during WWII. Read the entire item, not just the snippets below.
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The Danger of American Fascism
By Henry A. Wallace
The New York Times
From Henry A. Wallace, Democracy Reborn (New York, 1944), edited by Russell Lord, p. 259.
Sunday 09 April 1944
On returning from my trip to the West in February, I received a
request from The New York Times to write a piece answering the
following questions:
What is a fascist?
How many fascists have we?
How dangerous are they?
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such
an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties,
classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him
ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. The
supreme god of a fascist, to which his ends are directed, may be
money or power; may be a race or a class; may be a military, clique
or an economic group; or may be a culture, religion, or a political
party.
[...]
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service
to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for
money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously
to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic
extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned
with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now
preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present
unpleasantness" ceases[.]
[MC - Or Shrub aligning himself with the Sauds and bin Laden families.]
[...]
[I]ndustries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can
be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us. The
myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. It was Mussolini's
vaunted claim that he "made the trains run on time." In the end,
however, he brought to the Italian people impoverishment and defeat.
It was Hitler's claim that he eliminated all unemployment in Germany.
Neither is there unemployment in a prison camp.
[MC - That sounds a lot like Halliburton providing polluted water to US soldiers and Shrub giving jobs to people loyal to Shrub rather than competent people.]
[...]
Fascism in the postwar inevitably will push steadily for Anglo-Saxon
imperialism and eventually for war with Russia. Already American
fascists are talking and writing about this conflict and using it as
an excuse for their internal hatreds and intolerances toward certain
races, creeds and classes.
[MC - No doubt Wallace said Russia because they were the bogeymen of that time. The rise of islamic fundamentalism didn't start until the 1950s.]
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2006-09-25 06:41:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
we are definitely living in a fast changing world and all of us are losing some of the free will and rights we had in earlier times. there was a quote from B. Franklin who said, " those people who are willing to give up a little freedom for safety deserve neither freedom nor safety. "
2006-09-25 13:38:38 · answer #2 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes but like most insidous changes of this kind it happens by dergrees. I'm hoping we will be able to do a course correction. We've come close before with McCartheyism and all that anti communist bs.
2006-09-25 13:29:46 · answer #3 · answered by Bran McMuffin 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2006-09-25 13:28:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No. You are presenting a false premise.
I have not lost civil liberties and there is no movement toward a theocracy ( maybe you should use your dictionary and find out what that means instead of parroting other malcontents).
2006-09-25 13:30:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
There have not been any erosion of civil liberties, nor any movement towards a theocracy by the current administration.
You merely proved yourself to be a liar.
2006-09-25 13:34:19 · answer #6 · answered by Born Again Christian 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
wow, what a great quote, yes, I agree with that quote 100% and yes, it is taking place.
nationalism almost makes me as sick as christianity, the flag is offensive and should be removed from sight.
2006-09-25 13:35:24 · answer #7 · answered by phalsephasod 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
2006-09-25 13:29:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
life goes on. that's too deep for the plain, SIMPLE reality of life.
2006-09-25 13:29:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truer words were never spoken.
2006-09-25 13:38:29 · answer #10 · answered by bpflyguy1990 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋