The Era of ‘Good’ Fascism?
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/23/2019 9:36:49 AM
Consider the recent statements and acts of iconic progressive celebrities .Jane Fonda is chronically furious. This time she directed her wrath at those who disagree about the urgency of ending the entire fossil fuel industry and ruining the current economy. Her idea is to put climate “deniers” on trial for incorrect speech. So much for the First Amendment. “Now, because of the fossil fuel industry, it’s too late for moderation,” Fonda says. “And given the emergency, it’s those who believe in moderation, in pre-Trump business as usual, who are truly delusional. And those who lie and continue to lie about what they’re doing to the environment should be
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jacksin5 12/23/2019 9:48:50 AM (No. 269797)
Exactly where is all the electricity going to come from to power your "Green World"? Seeing that Auto Manufacturers are building plug-in cars worldwide, what's the endgame? Economically force citizens back into the cities, because we won't be able to get enough range to live rurally anymore?
Nationalize the grid, so you have to beg Government for your electricity allotment? So far, Big Auto and Big Electric are buying into this scam, thinking they will be on the winning side of this equation, but giving in could bring about the destruction of America as we have always known it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/23/2019 10:01:06 AM (No. 269813)
She suddenly became aware that she had been raging for quite some time. then, in the middle of the sentence she suddenly became aware of herself: “I DEMAND that you stop making the products that I use everyday!!”
‘Oh well, i guess it makes more sense if i say “fossil fuel“ instead of “products i use everyday”,’ she thought.
The next moment she forgot all about her introspection and resumed raging.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pensom2 12/23/2019 10:04:00 AM (No. 269817)
This is a brilliantly insightful piece. Just one slice: Jack and Bobby Kennedy went into the South during the civil rights era and prosecuted and overcame the resistant democrat power base who refused to integrate the black citizens and their children and who had passed "Jim Crow" laws. Blacks were occasionally lynched and routinely sidelined from voting.
Does anyone see any way that today's Republicans could march in and overcome liberal cities who declare themselves to be "sanctuaries" where illegal aliens should be free from arrest, prosecution, or deportation? We have a major and growing problem on our hands.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/23/2019 10:17:17 AM (No. 269841)
The United States always suffers from one form of "fascism" or another, always justified by the purveyors as "good" for the Republic. Eventually it overreaches and collapses closer to the center of American political culture. That is where the real fear strikes: American political culture is several notches to the left and drifting further in that direction. Prosperity fuels this era of socialism and its expansion, just as it did the "Great Society" of the '60's.
Generally, "hard work" is a thing of the past for many. Check your basements for your twenty-something slacker on a perpetual scholarship granted by mom and dad. Flip burgers...$15 an hour and a pension coming right up! And one wonders why people pump their own gas, bag their own groceries, clean their own tables at restaurants and now even avoid humans when ordering on a computer screen.
Unlike other societies that absorb excess human resources into its military or other public service, the USA allows it to stand idle while importing foreign cheap labor.
And don't say a discouraging word about the "unfortunates" who haven't been as "lucky" as you, either. You're a hater!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 12/23/2019 10:18:53 AM (No. 269844)
VDH , Peace be upon Him, used to soft pedal the motives of Academia but these days he's had about enough of it. Still, I respect his very gracious yet surgical style of commentary.
.....not to mention his encyclopedic grasp of history.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Krause 12/23/2019 10:28:42 AM (No. 269857)
So what kind of bicycle is she tooling around on?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Clinger 12/23/2019 11:14:48 AM (No. 269896)
Indeed, we are full steam ahead in our drive for fascism. And I would submit that fascism was also good in Nazi Germany and Italy until it wasn't. Expect the same outcome here unless we return to the constitution.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 12/23/2019 11:23:33 AM (No. 269905)
Jerrold, not Gerald -- that's the NY Jewish spelling.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/23/2019 11:41:34 AM (No. 269915)
Hanoi Jane needs to be put on trial for treason, period!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 12/23/2019 12:30:32 PM (No. 269945)
Fonda is a very dangerous nutcase.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 12/23/2019 12:43:12 PM (No. 269952)
Unless this loon lives in D.C., and bikes to protest at the Capitol, how does she manage to get arrested five Fridays in a row at the Capitol building? My guess fossil fuels played a part in her appearances.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BillW. 12/23/2019 1:06:43 PM (No. 269970)
FTA: If and when fascism comes to America, it will not arrive with jackboots, stiff arms, and military uniforms.
Examples abound throughout...
Vets for Trump 2020
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
FormerDem 12/23/2019 3:34:40 PM (No. 270039)
Absolute rubbish. And by the way, the climate fascists are responsible for the fact we can mitigate so little of the climate change that is in fact happening. They won't permit study of alternatives to their notions, and until we know the truth about what is happening, we can't mitigate it, can we. It is their fault the floods and droughts and fires and so on do unchecked harm. We need the truth, if we are to mitigate danger and they are right in the way, swinging truncheons and posing for selfies.
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I despise Ms. Fonda on TV. There she goes spouting her obvious infective self. Shut up, sista. You are a nothing who hauled her rear end t o the this protest. She has done evil to our fighting Viet Nam veterans. Shut up. Ja-nney. Please find a place in H*****ll.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/24/2019 1:11:40 AM (No. 270236)
It's past time for that commie Fonda to be prosecuted instead of merely let go after all her arrests.
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