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No, but I 'see' the RED SCARE. How about you, do you see the bias in favor of corporations by the gang of five (Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito)?
Was it Mussolini who said, "Fascism is the union of corporation and state"?
The greater threat to the American political landscape may be on the Supreme Court Bench. Individual liberty always seems to fade while corporate rights grow.
"Was it Mussolini who said, "Fascism is the union of corporation and state"?"
Perhaps it was Franklin Roosevelt.
"English and French commentators routinely depicted Roosevelt as akin to Mussolini. A more specific reason why, in 1933, the New Deal was often compared with Fascism was that with the help of a massive propaganda campaign, Italy had transitioned from a liberal free-market system to a state-run corporatist one. And corporatism was considered by elitists and intellectuals as the perfect response to the collapse of the liberal free-market economy, as was the national self-sufficiency of the Stalinist Soviet Union.
The National Recovery Administration was comparable to Mussolinis corporatism as both had state control without actual expropriation of private property."
Schivelbusch, "Three New Deals."
You shouldn't be afraid to read a book once in a while.
You didn't comment on the recent opinions by the gang of five?
FDR - much like President Obama - was elected at a time of economic crisis and no map existed on how to respond. Both tired some things that worked and others that didn't.
FDR put people to work and food in their stomachs. He fought the same people whose self interest came before the country and their fellow citizens. The Callous Conservative isn't a new breed, it existed decades before you were born and joined their klan.
Read a book is a rather weak ad hominem PC; you're usually more profane and caustic.
"Read a book is a rather weak ad hominem PC; you're usually more profane and caustic."
It's Sunday.
Count your blessings.