Beck says progressivism "is more akin to early Italian fascism than to the Founding Fathers"

And what, pray tell, is modern Teabaggery akin to? Anyone... anyone...

Hey, you've been reading here [imagine] . . . we mentioned the other day that if our Founding Fathers hadn't been progressive we'd all be speaking with English accents and singing God Save the Queen.

If you keep participating here, you might learn something. 'Course, you couldn't continue to call yourself a "self-educated" man. I'd still fire the teacher, if I were you . . . your teacher stinks.

You mean the kind of fascism Mussolini described as a merger of state and corporate power? Sounds more like neo-conservatism to me.

How Rude

Beck says progressivism "is more akin to early Italian fascism than to the Founding Fathers"

And tomorrow, it will be more akin to 1930's German Naziism.

And, the day after that, it will be more akin to Soviet Communism.

And so on . . .

In my history book,I saw a picture of italian citizens hanging from lightpoles

Beck says progressivism "is more akin to early Italian fascism than to the Founding Fathers"

This dude is making me mad as a progressive! Labeling us as fascist! This dips#it knows nothing about history!

Fascism - is a political ideology that seeks to combine radical and authoritarian nationalism with a corporatist economic system, and which is usually considered to be on the far right of the traditional left-right political spectrum.

Just like what has happened in this country since the early 1900's, 1920's, and 1980's - present!

Smears go nowhere Becky! What is really scary is that people actually believe this yokel!

A couple of years ago, some conservative called into a progressive radio show and said liberals were like Nazis because Hitler was a vegetarian. I have no idea if Hitler was a vegetarian and it doesn't matter if he was - that's not why his name lives in infamy. Hitler was infamous for preemptive war and belligerent nationalism; curtailing speech, privacy, habeas corpus and due process rights; racism and xenophobia; the persecution of anyone non-white or homosexual; and the biggy - genocide of a specific religious group. None of this is akin to a liberal ideology.

Beck says progressivism "is more akin to early Italian fascism than to the Founding Fathers"

Early Italian fascism? Like, say, Italian fascism from 1922-25? Well, let's see: Under Mussolini's finance minister, Alberto De Stefani, Italy suppressed inheritance and luxury tax, suppressed taxes on foreign capital, privatized life insurance, and abandoned state monopolies on services like telephone.

So we have the cutting of the "death tax" and luxury taxes, and the handing over of previously state-provided services to private businesses. How exactly are progressives acting like early fascists again?

As I recall, the key element to fascism is corporatism. Corporatism is defined as a partnership between government and established firms characterized by regulatory government agencies that cartelize industries. Are progressives fond of this with a populist pro-worker approach to it? You be the judge. I miss the bailouts. Keep them coming.

Where does the intense hatred for "progressivism" come from?

It comes from the Corporate class who are still trying to roll back the Progressive victories of the early 1900s that gave the Gov't power to keep rats%%t out of your food, anti-trust legislation and essentially set the course for government oversite of the robber barron corporatists.

They are still fighting this battle and have enlisted the likes of Beck to fight for the rights of the Corporate elite and against the interests of most of his listeners.

The only problem is that modern conservatism is Fascism pure and totally.