Our Liberal Fascists
by
Matt Giwer (c) 1995 <3/23>

      In frustration the Clinton Administration and the liberal minority in the 104th Congress have begun to clearly show their fascist stripes. A fascist is a Marxist who has learned that it is not necessary to actually have public ownership of business as long as they have complete control of business. What our liberals have as yet failed to admit is that they can never achieve any permanent success in a democracy -- although that is getting through to them in the aftermath of the 1994 elections.
      The first clear statement of the view that business exists solely for the benefit of the liberal state was given by Commerce Secretary, Ron Brown. He is the one who introduced the idea that business tax reductions, allowing business to keep more of the money they earned, is a form of welfare. In context he was equating government give aways of unearned money and services with the keeping of earned money.
      Clearly his concept is that one of the purposes of business is to generate tax revenue for the government. That is the implicit assumption in equating earned and unearned money as the same. The point of view to make that statement is that business earning belong to the government and that what business is permitted to keep is the result of the government giving away what it owns, business earnings.
      It is the backwards attitude that has caused serious economic problems in many cities. These cities, run by liberals, believe that since they city government is providing the services within which business operates that they have a right to control how business operates and that they must pay arbitrary taxes (tribute) to the city.
      These cities have found to the contrary what everyone knows from history. Cities start as places of commerce and exist only as such. Those cities found business leaving the cities.
      Washington, DC learned this. New York City learned this. Detroit learned this. When they tried to solve their social problems by government give away of tax revenues to those who had not earned it they attempted to get that revenue from business.
      Business simply moved out of the cities and away from the fascists attempting to use them to carry out their social policies. Rather than encouraging businesses to create jobs so people would not need welfare they drove more jobs out of the cities and made their problems worse. They raised business taxes again, drove out more business, and so on until these cities more resemble third world shanty towns.
      The cities have learned more or less and have ceased the spiral. What they know but which conflicts with their fascist ideology is they can not use business to implement their social and political agendas. And you will note their frustration in cities where democracy is actually reversing their ideological accomplishments.
      In the interim we have had every reduction in government giveaways cast by the liberal fascists in terms of Marxist class warfare. All changes are being drawn in terms of some harm to one class to the benefit of another. Never mind that economists can not define these economic classes. These liberals are only using the term middle class so they speak of only one class.
      They speak of the poor rather than of the lower class, yet if the middle exists so does the lower, save the connotation of "lower class" is too close to the truth for that term to gain any sympathy. The lower class, the uneducated, the beggars, the thieves, those without morality, the source of the most crime in society. That is the lower class that would weaken their position should they give the "poor" a class name.
      And of course the rich are never referred to as the upper class. To admit they create the jobs and support the arts and of their own choice spend their time and money to preserve and enhance our culture would not support their Marxist class warfare intentions. So they are only called the rich. And you will also the implication that the rich are the same as businessmen. After all, who else could be earning that much and what right do they have to what they earned?
      And presently the farthest reaching example of fascism in our liberals is bringing them all to their feet to insist upon the same control of business as did Musollini and Hitler, affirmative action. Affirmative actions is the de facto imposition of racial quotas upon everyone who hires others.
      Exactly equal representation in all workforces in all jobs, when implemented by the government, is a social policy and nothing more. It is not a moral issue as our government has a wall of separation from religion. It is not a constitutional issue in that the constitution addresses the government only. This is only a matter of social policy being pursued by the liberal faction of our political system.
      In that this faction is of the fascist school of Marxism, it holds the view that business can be justly ordered by the government to implement this policy. Although it would be questionable we are not talking about encouraged, cajoled, rewarded for implementing this policy. We are talking ordered under penalty of ruinous fines for not implementing this partisan political agenda.
      The initial response by those appearing to wish to appear to be neutral are from people like Clinton and Gephardt but all they have said so far is that they will let the conservatives make the first move. They have carefully avoided saying anything positive about the idea save that it should be considered. I point out this same strategy happened with every other proposal. Once it has been made the fascists have begun their hysterical class warfare rhetoric. This will be no different.
      As with previous proposals the point men have been the prominent but not leadership fascists. This time, minor Congressmen like Wrangle and the unelected by Jesse Jackson are playing the race card as equivalent to the poor card, but not the lower class card. These same people playing the race card are also the first to claim in other circumstances that you can not say that poor and black are the same. Were they to belief that they would not be playing point men for the coming fascist leadership hysteria.
      The pattern of the leadership so far has been to justify their hysteria, rolling back the fascist view of government control of business, that the changes are going "too far" or to find some sympathetic group to point to. This is being done now with welfare reform as they point to the children of the lower class, the future violent criminals, the future beggars, the future uneducated of America, as being harmed by these changes.
      And in the process of doing so they ignore the impetus of this change by the process of free elections is that what has been done has only increased the number of criminals, beggars and uneducated. Certainly they know their social agenda has failed as well as anyone but is has been one more justification for government control of business.
      And in this hysteria one thing is very clear they are not interested in abiding by the results of free elections. Of course there is no expectation that any loser would roll over and play dead. But the liberals are not responding to a change in the approach to solving problems. They are objecting in every case to the abnegation of government power over business, the people and the states in areas that are strictly matters of policy, their policy of course.
      In other times other Republicans faired better against these liberals. When the way the system worked was for the Fascists to decrease economic freedom and for the other to decrease personal freedoms the fascists intoned some formal objections and then went along. Today it is different.
      These changes are all towards decreasing the power of the government. Rather than perfunctory objections prior to agreement, the hysterical shrieking gets louder and the opposition more fierce. Did we not all expect a period of posturing, quiet compromise and then business as usual?
      We got as far as the posturing but it turned out there was to be no compromise with the objectives. And thus the posturing has turned to hysteria. The abrogated powers of the government are being returned to the people. The government is pulling back from control of local government. And government control of business is being turned back. Progress towards a totalitarian fascist state is being turned back.
      And the rabid Fascists don't know which to bite first.