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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The Roosevelt Administration and Liberal Fascism

Consider the modern MSM and Hollywood's insistence that dissent is patriotism. Click on the link and see how much "dissent" was practiced in America of the 1930s. It brings the meaning of Liberal Fascism home in ways that most of us have not experienced.

Roosevelt and his administration did things that, if implemented by George Bush, would have led to his impeachment.
As for the NRA logo, it’s a reminder of the happy days of FDR’s attempts to revive the economy by pouring a bowl of alphabet soup over its face. The NRA, among other things, was intended to prevent the depredations of competition, and “allowed industry heads to collectively set minimum prices,” as this rather scant wikipedia entry notes. (The same page relates the story of the tailor who was arrested for charging 35 cents to press a suit; the NRA rules specified the price at 40 cents. So he was arrested. Consider that the next time someone complains that liberty and civil rights have been eliminated in the last 7 years.)

Since the government-approved slogan for the NRA was “We Do Our Part,” businesses that didn’t display the logo were, by implication, not doing their part, and not with the general flow of the modern world, brother. Even movie theaters hastened to assure the public they were doing their part:


How is this for a Cult Of Personality?

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