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| 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 | ||
| 98dec90 | Jackson's men cut off the noses of dead Indians as they counted the bodies. Afterwards there were few regrets; one of Jackson's soldiers chuckled that he had killed a boy "five or six years of age" for the reason that "he would have become an Indian someday."22" | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| cd4ea9f | When you fuse the two ideas of "nation" and "socialism," what you get is National Socialism." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| fed2f84 | Mussolini created the first National Socialism, stripped of its German racial connotations. His was a vision of a nation organized along socialist lines in which everyone would share in the benefits and all would contribute their due portion. This language of course has Obama overtones, and we see an obvious congruence between the fascist unification and the modern progressive insistence that America is a single community and that everyone .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| fbc14f7 | The roots of fascism fully expose the connection between fascism and America's political Left, and the antithesis between fascism and America's political Right. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 7144ead | Both the fascists and the progressives viewed the centralized state as the logical outgrowth of everything they stood for. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 58fae80 | 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." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 4e45039 | Historian Ira Katznelson tells us, "Hitler denigrated blacks, admired American racism, and regretted the South's defeat in 1865." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 589a49b | But the rule itself required 100 percent whiteness in order to qualify for attending a white school, or drinking from a white water fountain, or frequenting the white section of a public beach. This as we saw earlier is the rule that even the Nazis found a bit too extreme and repellent. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| b0acfdb | Interestingly while the Nuremberg Laws are now history, the "one drop rule" is very much with us, not only as a matter of law but also as a matter of personal identity. Think about Obama: he's half white and half black, yet he identifies as black. Many African Americans have white ancestry, yet they consider themselves black. Why? Because of the one-drop rule. If any of these people tried to self-identify as white--or refuse to racially cla.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| b5e2890 | The Census Bureau, even today, counts blacks and whites according to the one-drop rule and uses it to implement a host of affirmative action and other race-based programs. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 7931e4c | Actually, we do have our Mengele, and his name is Kermit Gosnell. Since 1979, Gosnell ran an abortion clinic called the Women's Medical Society in West Philadelphia. There he performed late-term abortions and partial-birth abortions, mostly on poor women. If by some mistake children were born alive, Gosnell killed them in a process he termed "ensuring fetal demise." Gosnell's preferred technique for abortion was to heavily drug the prematur.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 449685e | Gosnell is our Mengele, we also have our Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, and its name is Planned Parenthood. Gosnell didn't work for Planned Parenthood, but neither did Mengele work for the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Yet both men had institutional legitimacy for their work that came from the longtime support and advocacy of organizations like Planned Parenthood and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Both men saw themselves as pioneers working on the sc.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 6411a09 | As we will see, Franklin D. Roosevelt was an avid admirer of Mussolini who sought to import Italian fascist schemes to America. FDR also collaborated with the worst racist elements in America, working with them to block anti-lynching laws and exclude blacks from New Deal programs and name a former Klansman to the Supreme Court. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 4e706eb | Mussolini, for his part, praised FDR's book Looking Forward and basically declared FDR to be a fellow fascist. Hitler too saw FDR as a kindred spirit and the New Deal was widely praised as an American form of fascism in the Nazi Party's official newspaper Volkischer Beobachter and other Nazi publications. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| c74df41 | Think about this: while black culture is a vibrant presence in America today, Indian culture is ignored, forgotten, virtually nonexistent. Even after the Holocaust, Jewish culture thrives, in Israel, America, and around the world. By contrast, American Indians seem still to bear the original shock of their displacement and virtual obliteration as a people. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| a6f9db3 | In 1935, seven years before the Nazis fully implemented the Final Solution, Hitler advocated emigration and ghettoization as interim solutions to the Jewish problem. The Jews, Hitler said, must be "removed from all professions, ghettoized, restricted to a particular territory, where they can wander about, in accordance with their character, while the German people looks in, as one looks at animals in the wild."30" | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 239f1fb | Stannard begins with a stunning statistic: of the ten to twelve million native Indians who once populated the American continent, between 90 and 95 percent perished as a consequence of exposure to the white man. This is a catastrophic event, by any measure, but even so Stannard admits that most of these deaths were due to plagues and epidemics unwittingly transmitted from Europeans to the Indians. Whatever we call this, we cannot call it ge.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 502efcc | Starting in 1933, the first year of the Third Reich, the Nazis also began the systematic exclusion of Jews from public office. Hitler added an "Aryan clause" to the civil service law which effectively banned Jews from government employment." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 7d854f1 | Soon Jews were also removed and excluded from journalism, farming, teaching, and the theater. By 1938, Jews could not practice investment banking or the professions of law and medicine. This combination of segregation and state-sponsored discrimination against Jews mirrors what the Democrats did to African Americans. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| baee4ee | From the point of view of the progressive narrative--a narrative I began to challenge in the previous chapter--Mussolini's shift from Marxian socialism to fascism must come as a huge surprise. In the progressive paradigm, Marxian socialism is the left end of the spectrum and fascism is the right end of the spectrum. Progressive incredulity becomes even greater when we see that Mussolini wasn't just any socialist; he was the recognized head .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 9a7bb2d | academic chair the following year. In his account of what happened, Lessing acknowledged he could do nothing to prevent being "shouted down, threatened and denigrated" by student activists. He was helpless, he said, "against the murderous bellowing of youngsters who accept no individual responsibilities but pose as spokesman for a group or an impersonal ideal, always talking in the royal 'we' while hurling personal insults . . . and claimin.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| fa06bf5 | It was Gentile," Mussolini confessed, "who prepared the road for those like me who wished to take it."30 Gentile served as a member of the Fascist Grand Council, a senator in the Upper House of the Italian Parliament, and also as Mussolini's minister of education. Later, after Mussolini was deposed and established himself at Salo, Gentile became at Il Duce's request the president of the Italian Academy." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 09be536 | Racism, of course, preceded the Democratic Party but the Democrats, in a sense, invented political racism in the early nineteenth century in order to defend slavery against Republican and abolitionist attack. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 842217d | Progressive Democrats in the twentieth century would in fact attack the founding fathers as misguided or their ideas as out of date. But in the nineteenth century, Democrats took a different line. They denied that blacks were men, which is to say, they denied the full humanity of black people. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 2fd0030 | So the Democratic defense went like this: all men are created equal, blacks are subhuman, which is to say, not fully men, therefore, we are justified in enslaving them. | Dinesh D'Souza |