Ron Paul is the only one with the integrity to be POTUS.
Oh, please.........
Too bad that Ron Paul doesn't have the integrity to declare his candidacy under the Libertarian Party, which he truly is. No, instead, he hides under the cloak of the GOP.
Actually, I like Hunter & Huckabee right now. Too bad that neither one of them stand the chance of getting the nod from the GOP. I agree with Balog, Thompson is a sinking ship.
ThorOh, please.........
Too bad that Ron Paul doesn't have the integrity to declare his candidacy under the Libertarian Party, which he truly is. No, instead, he hides under the cloak of the GOP.
Ron Paul has a platform supporting no borders with Canada and Mexico
Oh please indeed.
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Ron Paul is the only one with the integrity to be POTUS.
Oh, please.........
Too bad that Ron Paul doesn't have the integrity to declare his candidacy under the Libertarian Party, which he truly is. No, instead, he hides under the cloak of the GOP.
Actually, I like Hunter & Huckabee right now. Too bad that neither one of them stand the chance of getting the nod from the GOP. I agree with Balog, Thompson is a sinking ship.
At least his congressional votes reconcile with what he says, which are many times better than the rest of the mooks.
Ron is a Libertarian who seems to think conservative values are essentially libertarian (how did he get so confused?)
Why is it that most professed republicans seem to think fascist values are essentially conservative (how did they get so confused?).
My bet is on Romney
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Anyone who has managed to get elected to public office anywhere in the Peoples' Repugnant of New England states (or Commiefornia) can't be good for the rest of the country.
Huckabee is pro-illegal. Ron is a Libertarian who seems to think conservative values are essentially Libertarian (how did he get so confused?) Giuliani is Hillary with boobs.
Hunter is the guy, but he won't win the nomination. My bet is on Romney.
Romney, who presided over the 1998 MA AWB and the most draconian gun laws outside Chicago, Romney, who presided over the Big Dig taxpayer boondoogle...
I was the guy's neighbor in the next state. NO THANK YOU.
Why is it that most professed republicans seem to think fascist values are essentially conservative (how did they get so confused?).
fascism A right-wing nationalist ideology or movement with a totalitarian and hierarchical structure that is fundamentally opposed to democracy and liberalism. In ancient Rome, the authority of the state was symbolized by the fasces, a bundle of rods bound together (signifying popular unity) with a protruding axe-head (denoting leadership). As such, it was appropriated by Mussolini to label the movement he led to power in Italy in 1922, but was subsequently generalized to cover a whole range of movements in Europe during the inter-war period. These include the National Socialists in Germany, as well as others such as Action Fran?aise, the Arrow Cross in Hungary, or the Falangists in Spain. In the post-war period, the term has been used, often prefixed by neo, to describe what are viewed as successors to these movements, as well as Peronism and, most recently, some movements in ex-Communist countries, such as Pamyat in Russia (see extreme-right parties). Given such diversity, does the term have any meaning?
Genuinely fascist ideologies are: monist, that is to say, based upon the notion that there are fundamental and basic truths about humanity and the environment which do not admit to question; simplistic, in the sense of ascribing complex phenomena to single causes and advancing single remedies; fundamentalist, that is, involving a division of the world into good and bad with nothing in between; and conspiratorial, that is, predicated on the existence of a secret world-wide conspiracy by a hostile group seeking to manipulate the masses to achieve and/or maintain a dominant position.
In content, these ideologies are distinguished by five main components. (1) Extreme nationalism, the belief that there is a clearly defined nation which has its own distinctive characteristics, culture, and interests, and which is superior to others. (2) An assertion of national declinethat at some point in the mythical past the nation was great, with harmonious social and political relationships, and dominant over others, and that subsequently it has disintegrated, become internally fractious and divided, and subordinate to lesser nations. (3) This process of national decline is often linked to a diminution of the racial purity of the nation. In some movements the nation is regarded as co-extensive with the race (the nation race), while in others, hierarchies of races are defined generically with nations located within them (the race nation); in virtually all cases, the view is taken that the introduction of impurities has weakened the nation and been responsible for its plight. (4) The blame for national decline and/or racial miscegenation is laid at the door of a conspiracy on the part of other nations/races seen as competing in a desperate struggle for dominance. (5) In that struggle, both capitalism and its political form, liberal democracy, are seen as mere divisive devices designed to fragment the nation and subordinate it further in the world order.
With regard to prescriptive content, the first priority is the reconstitution of the nation as an entity by restoring its purity. The second is to restore national dominance by reorganizing the polity, the economy, and society. Means to this end include variously: (1) the institution of an authoritarian and antiliberal state dominated by a single party; (2) total control by the latter over political aggregation, communication, and socialization; (3) direction by the state of labour and consumption to create a productionist and self-sufficient economy; and (4) a charismatic leader embodying the real interests of the nation and energizing the masses. With these priorities fulfilled, the nation would then be in a position to recapture its dominance, if necessary by military means.
Such priorities were explicit in the inter-war fascist movements, which indulged in racial/ethnic cleansing, established totalitarian political systems, productionist economies, and dictatorships, and of course went to war in pursuit of international dominance. But such parties can no longer openly espouse these extremes, and national/racial purity now takes the form of opposition to continuing immigration and demands for repatriation; totalitarianism and dictatorship have been replaced by lesser demands for a significant strengthening in the authority of the state, allegedly within a democratic framework; productionism has become interventionism; and military glory has been largely eschewed.
Fascism was less defined by its policies, however, which were often ad hoc, than by its ideology, organization, and style. Ideologically, it celebrated youth, vigor, order, discipline, violence, and hierarchy. Organizationally, it was based on a revolutionary mass movement led by a charismatic absolute leader. Stylistically, it cultivated a combination of archaic, mystical, and militaristic symbolism.
Social scientists most often interpret fascism as a response of the lower middle classes to economic crisis, defeat in World War I, and the threat of communist revolution, although it also received support from the bourgeoisie and some sectors of the working class.
Simplistic, fundamentalist, conspiratorial. I wonder whose supporters best embody these characteristics See how fun it is to hand pick a few salient points and conveniently ignore the rest?
While there are a few thematic and topical similarities, characterizing the average Republican's values as fascist is absurd and hyperbolic.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were "brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen."
Mike Huckabee on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in Orlando
Not even close, Mike. Only one of the 56 was an active clergyman, and that was John Witherspoon. Even if you include former clergy, that number only goes up to possibly 4. I know this is only a minor point, but it still bugs me.