Dude I’m a Fascist?: Jonah Goldberg’s New Book
Some thoughts on his new book Liberalism is Fascism.
Well tonight I was getting cozy on my Volkswagen bus home, enjoying my organic food, and toasting up a joint, as I got ready to watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report. You know, the usual. Well, I had been busy with my veggie munch and was not paying much attention to the television until I began to become alarmed by something that was being said on the show. Jonah Goldberg was on the show and he was saying liberalism in America was actually fascism and Nazism and bunch of other “ism’s”. DUDE. DUDE. Dude I’m a Fascist? No wayyyyy man.
Well Stewart coming out and saying that it was a sixteen-minute interview that had to be edited certainly let me know there was going to be some quibbles coming up.
I haven’t read Goldberg’s book so I don’t want to be too critical of the book but I have read his Blog. I couldn’t pick up much of what the book was about but apparently because the Nazi’s were environmentalists and ate organic food and liberals are environmentalist and like organic foods, that means that they are leading us to fascism?
I don’t really understand his position on much of anything. Does he really believe that unity is fascism? He writes about Obama’s message of unity saying, “But united toward what end, exactly? Or does it all boil down to being united about being hopeful and hopeful about being united? (Goldberg)”
I’m not sure maybe he hasn’t noticed that we are in the middle of a war, likely to be starting a new one, have an economic crisis, an environmental crisis, an energy crisis, social security crisis, national security crisis, nuclear proliferation crisis, middle class crisis, I could probably keep going but for brevity sake ill stop there.
Ok so he probably would deny most of those crisis’s, but he would at least have to acknowledge the Iraq war and I believe he has. Well I ask you is it better for a basketball team to be angry at each other over why they lost the last game or to be confident and united in order to win the next game?
We need to be united in our values, our goals, and our vision in order to be united in our plans for all these problems. He doesn’t seem to like that. He wants to do what we always do and agree to disagree and let nothing get done. George Bush leaves, Bill Clinton comes in and undoes everything he did. Bush strikes again, undoes everything Bill did. Now what Clinton strikes again undoes everything Bush did (this may be more of a necessity than it was with his father)?
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Post CommentSamuel Z Jones
On January 28, 2008 at 1:28 pm
There’s a distincition that has to be made on the ‘liberalism is fascism’ issue; Liberalism in the common lexicon means tolerance and middle-gorund politics. Neo-Liberalism on the other hand is hard-core extremist Capitalism and most certainly is the genetically-engineered hell-child of Nazi ideology.
It all goes back to the end of WWII, when Nazi scientists defected en-mass to the USA. Nazi ideas were then inculcated into American society, from new technology to psychotherapy to political theory. Essentially, 90% of modern technology was invented by the Nazis; that one fact alone should be enough to direct any further research you might undertake.
EdRoberts
On January 30, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Have not read the book but have heard him on a few shows.
To put it very, very simply, liberalism & fascism both believe in the GOVERNMENT controlling your lives and everything in life.
One can easily see where the trend leads on this path; add in a few bad leaders, and as in Germany & Italy – well, kiss your arse good bye, baby. Sooner or later.
The freedom that American was started with and meant to be, has nothing to do with modern liberalism/fascism.