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867972f Even so, the proposal is interesting because Jackson was a Democrat--the founding father of the Democratic Party--while Tubman was a Republican. Admittedly Dinesh D'Souza
5c0f7a9 The progressive media is not comfortable with a female black abolitionist representing the Republican Party while a white male slave owner represents the Democratic Party. Dinesh D'Souza
97c94cd bulls and even royal edicts were largely ignored thousands of miles Dinesh D'Souza
cc5e416 To see how cavalier progressives can be with taxpayers' money, consider the case of Leroy Fick. In 2011, the fifty-nine-year-old Fick won a $2 million lottery jackpot. Still, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services ruled he could continue receiving food stamps. The Obama administration agreed. The Detroit News explained the government's rationale: "If Fick had chosen to accept monthly payments of his jackpot, the winnings would.. Dinesh D'Souza
bff597a As he thought about these problems, Hitler's attention was turned to America. Hitler didn't know a lot about America. He had never been to America. And he despised America. "My feelings against Americanism," he later said in 1942, "are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance." Why? He claimed, "Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaised and the other half negrified." Moreover, America is "a country wher.. Dinesh D'Souza
aa2ef5a Perhaps, but Trump's promised restoration is concerned with bringing back jobs. It is also about making government smaller and less bureaucratic. It is not about repealing progress in America on civil rights or women going to work. It is not about sending gays back into the closet. So, too, modern conservatism is about restoring the ideals of the founders, not the actual agrarian, undeveloped world in which the founders lived. So the Right .. Dinesh D'Souza
163f7d0 The progressives pose as the champions not only of fairness and social justice but also of compassion. They are the ones who insist on our obligation to those from whom we have allegedly stolen. Let's leave aside for the moment whether they are right about the theft. What we do know for sure is that progressives assert there has been a theft. They further acknowledge that they are among the beneficiaries of it. Based on this, they would see.. Dinesh D'Souza
fbafb07 Obama likes to portray himself as the savior of the younger generation. In reality, however, college costs are so high in large part because the government subsidizes education with Pell Grants and a whole host of other scholarships and loans. Colleges continually raise tuition because they know that a large portion of the tab is paid for by the taxpayer, not the student. That's how colleges can afford to pay professors six-figure salaries .. Dinesh D'Souza
ed693ec Let's look at the amounts involved.5 When George W. Bush left office, the federal debt was $9 trillion. That's a huge amount, and Bush added nearly $4 trillion to the total, a disgraceful legacy caused primarily by profligate domestic spending and foreign wars. Bush's second term deficits averaged around $500 billion. But still, the $9 trillion represented America's entire debt accumulated from the founding through 2008. Now, under Obama, t.. Dinesh D'Souza
a8975fe Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took $31,000 in late 2013 from his campaign funds to buy jewelry for his granddaughter Ryan Elisabeth Reid's wedding. In his campaign year-end report, Reid tried to hide his granddaughter's relationship to him by simply listing the transaction as a "holiday gift" to one "Ryan Elisabeth." The impression Reid sought to convey was that he was buying gifts for his supporters. When it came to light that Reid had.. Dinesh D'Souza
f04b27a How valid, then, is the progressive critique that "you didn't build that"? The pitch itself has two parts. The first is that society did it, not business; the second is that workers did most of it, not CEOs and entrepreneurs. Both these arrows strike at the same target: entrepreneurs. Consequently an expose of the progressive pitch requires a refutation of this dual attack and also a defense of the entrepreneur, an explanation of what it is.. Dinesh D'Souza
4c98012 This rip-off relied on a series of blatant lies. "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your plan." "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." "The average family will save more than $2,400 per year." "Health care costs will decline." "Health care premiums will go down." "Everyone in this country will now have health insurance." Even though Obama kept saying these things, none of them was true. These statements were simp.. Dinesh D'Souza
7a88655 Even so, for people who know how to recognize it, today's Left is still the party of fascism and National Socialism, old ideologies now marching on a different continent under new colors, a fascism for the twenty-first century. Dinesh D'Souza
fb09cbd Progressives needed a new idea, and Alinsky came up with one: force banks and financial institutions to loan money to unqualified applicants so that they can buy homes. Alinsky's own idea was to terrorize the banks by having thousands of activists walk into banks and open up accounts of one dollar each, in effect paralyzing the bank's normal operations. This became the model for a number of leftist groups that took up the cause of bank inti.. Dinesh D'Souza
fd1f1ee Starting in the Clinton era and continuing through George W. Bush's two terms, progressive activists mounted direct pressure--either in the form of public protest or lawsuits--against banks. This was aimed at intimidating banks to adopt new lending standards and also to engage the activist groups themselves in the lending process. In 1994, a young Barack Obama, recently graduated from Harvard Law School, joined two other attorneys in suing .. Dinesh D'Souza
0ae7323 Rules for Radicals contains several Luciferian principles strewn throughout, such as "Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father; he who fears corruption fears life." On another occasion, Alinsky admiringly cites Lenin. "Lenin was a pragmatist," he writes. "When he returned to what was then Petrograd from exile, he said that the Bolsheviks stood for getting power through the ballot bu.. Dinesh D'Souza
450b88b Sometimes reparations is used to justify a feeding frenzy in which minority claimants simply raid the U.S. Treasury en masse while government bureaucrats facilitate a large transfer of wealth from the taxpayer to these so-called historical victims. A scandalous example of this is the Pigford case. Some ninety-one black farmers had sued the U.S. government alleging a legacy of bias against African Americans. Rather than settle the suit and p.. Dinesh D'Souza
f899a26 the case of Hispanics and Native Americans, it's not even clear that there was an offense. Consider: Texas legitimately revolted against Mexico and established an independent republic. Mexico can't exactly complain about that, because Mexico had just recently revolted against Spain. Then Texas chose to join the United States. Texas has a disputed border with Mexico, and the Mexican War erupted over that disputed territory. Mexico lost the w.. Dinesh D'Souza
c69ff97 The black abolitionist Frederick Douglass once wrote that the founders permitted slavery as a "scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building is completed." In that sense the building was completed in 1865, when the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished nationwide. But how was it abolished? It was abolished because Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans took a firm stance against theft and against the Democ.. Dinesh D'Souza
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c73e62a Let the sun be proud of its achievement." He added, "It is evident that white and black 'must fall or flourish together.' In the light of this great truth, laws ought to be enacted, and institutions established--all distinctions, founded on complexion ought to be repealed . . . and every right, privilege, and immunity, now enjoyed by the white man, ought to be as freely granted to the man of color." Dinesh D'Souza
c68e319 Obama's only connection with phones was to label them Obamaphones and hand them out for free through his community organizer network. Now millions of Americans and illegal immigrants have cell phones paid for by the U.S. government and funded through one of those obscure charges that appear on your phone bill, the "lifeline" tax. Obama undoubtedly hopes you never notice the charge, or ask about it. It's so much better to rip people off when.. Dinesh D'Souza
ff61fae When George W. Bush left office, the federal debt was $9 trillion. That's a huge amount, and Bush added nearly $4 trillion to the total, a disgraceful legacy caused primarily by profligate domestic spending and foreign wars. Bush's second term deficits averaged around $500 billion. But still, the $9 trillion represented America's entire debt accumulated from the founding through 2008. Now, under Obama, the federal debt is $18.5 trillion. It.. Dinesh D'Souza
996bf0d What really matters is that never before in history has America had a con artist as its chief executive and commander in chief. And we may be getting ready to anoint another in immediate succession. One is bad enough; two con artists in a row may be our undoing. These con artists are, just like their Boston counterparts, part of a crime network. This crime network is the Democratic Party, and its leaders are the progressives. For decades no.. Dinesh D'Souza
7807bc4 Let us concede at the outset that, in a free society, freedom will frequently be used badly. Freedom, by definition, includes freedom to do good or evil, to act nobly or basely. Thus we should not be surprised that there is a considerable amount of vice, licentiousness, and vulgarity in a free society. Given the warped timber of humanity, freedom is simply an expression of human flaws and weaknesses. But if freedom brings out the worst in p.. d-souza freedom Dinesh D'Souza
7b088d4 one of the central claims of modern progressivism, that wealth is created not by entrepreneurs and workers but rather by society, and therefore the proceeds can be allocated by the state according to its perceived benefits to society. Of course, if the premise is not true, then the conclusion doesn't follow, and the progressive redistributive project is built on a fallacy. Therefore progressives like Obama are very keen to inform entreprene.. Dinesh D'Souza
64ed8dd STORY Dinesh D'Souza
85ab015 Hitler greatly admired Mussolini and aspired to become like him. Mussolini, Hitler said, was "the leading statesman in the world, to whom none may even remotely compare himself."3 Hitler modeled his failed Munich Putsch in November 1923 on Mussolini's successful March on Rome." Dinesh D'Souza
72e6f9c The Genealogy of Morals, Dinesh D'Souza
4eabb54 Nearly seventy Democratic lawmakers refused to attend Trump's inauguration, an unprecedented violation of democratic etiquette that would have provoked massive media outrage had Republicans done it to, say, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. Dinesh D'Souza
c42ba35 With Hitler, too, we see a dedicated socialist who, shortly after assuming the leadership of the German Workers' Party, changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). In statement after statement, Hitler could not be clearer about his socialist commitments. He said, for example, in a 1927 speech, "We are socialists. We are the enemies of today's capitalist system of exploitation . . . and we are determined to dest.. Dinesh D'Souza
c699ff1 autobiographical novel. He fancied himself Dinesh D'Souza
19eb721 Jonah Goldberg received pretty much the same treatment for his important book Liberal Fascism. Goldberg argues, "What we call liberalism--the refurnished edifice of American progressivism--is in fact a descendant of and manifestation of fascism." Dinesh D'Souza
6bcbe9e The New Left in the 1960s was obsessed with consciousness raising. Saul Alinsky, a mentor to Obama and Hillary, devoted a large part of his training seminars to consciousness raising. Today Black Lives Matter and other left-wing groups routinely conduct consciousness-raising workshops as part of their protest training. All of this is a replacement of Marx's notion of historical inevitability with the recognition that people don't agitate of.. Dinesh D'Souza
a25f8c3 The racism of the Democratic Party in America not only preceded the racism of the Nazis, it lasted far longer--more than a century compared to the twelve years of Nazi rule in Germany. The Democratic Party's racism after the Civil War was preceded by the Democratic Party's defense of slavery and its support of policies for the relocation and extermination of American Indians. Dinesh D'Souza
7170b60 We think of concepts like "genocide" and "concentration camps" as unique to Nazism, but what term other than genocide can we use to describe Democratic president Andrew Jackson's mass relocation of the Indians? Didn't Jackson and his allies systematically seek to dispossess, disinherit, and dismember the Indians as a people? Using the official United Nations definition of genocide, I show that he did." Dinesh D'Souza
67fe34e Moreover, this whole issue has been raised to a completely new level since the publication of historian Stanley Elkins's path-breaking book Slavery. Elkins not only drew an elaborate comparison of the plantation as a "closed system" akin to a concentration camp, he also showed that slavery produced personality types eerily similar to those described by Nazi camp survivors. So the point is that even on some of the institutions and practices .. Dinesh D'Souza
f03640a Even though JFK fought in World War II, he retained a soft spot for Hitler as late as 1945, when he described him as the "stuff of legends . . . Hitler will emerge from the hate that now surrounds him and come to be regarded as one of the most significant figures to have lived."36" Dinesh D'Souza
0ad2228 These incriminating facts are known to many progressive scholars. But after World War II, as this group came increasingly to dominate the academy--a dominance that was fully consolidated by the late 1960s--the progressives recognized how crushing it would be if Americans knew about the actual record of progressivism and the Democratic Party. What if people, especially young people, knew the links between revered progressive figures like Wil.. Dinesh D'Souza
3bf0195 So progressives decided to tell a new story, and this is the story that has now become our conventional wisdom. In this story, the very fascism and Nazism that were, from the outset, on both sides of the Atlantic, recognized as left-wing phenomena now got moved into the right-wing column. Suddenly Mussolini and Hitler became "right-wingers," and the people who supposedly brought them to power became "conservatives." The Left, then, became t.. Dinesh D'Souza
21c42d3 Obama will view free market capitalism as a selfish and exploitative ideology. He will relentlessly attack its champions--whether they be rich guys or big bad corporations. He will diminish America's standard of living and burden future generations of Americans, narrowing the gap in living standards between America and the rest of the world. He will view America as the Rogue Nation and global plunderer. He will reduce America's footprint in.. Dinesh D'Souza
ff38c50 Therefore we have to watch carefully to see if Obama is actually doing these things. Of course, those who have no clue about his ideology will always seek to explain his actions another way. Liberals in general view Obama as toeing the liberal line, or compromising away from it, even when many of Obama's actions fit neither characterization. Conservatives in general view Obama as a bungler: he doesn't understand that tax hikes don't promote.. Dinesh D'Souza
efe8ac0 Certainly there is no limit to taxation if the benefits derived from public services by society measure up to the cost in taxation."2 As cited in the quotation at the beginning of this chapter, Obama Sr. is even willing to consider tax rates up to 100 percent! It's remarkable that this paper by Obama Sr. has gotten so little media coverage. One would expect it to be on the front page of every newspaper and a lead item on the evening news, e.. Dinesh D'Souza
ae5a8c1 As should be obvious by now, the Nazi race laws were the precise equivalent of the Democratic Party's race laws. It isn't merely that the former provided a precedent for the latter; the two sets of laws also had the same functional purpose. Just as the segregation and discrimination laws were intended to supplement, and in some respects replace, the random violence of the Ku Klux Klan, so too the Nuremberg Laws and Nazi discrimination laws .. Dinesh D'Souza
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