Talk radio hosts like Glenn Back have been promoting the idea liberals are fascists.

I would like to pose the question, “what is an actual fascist?”

Author Milton Mayer wrote They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 where he defined 14 points that define fascism:

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism
5. Rampant sexism
6. A controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together
9. Power of corporations protected
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
12. Obsession with crime and punishment
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections

Which of the above points identifies liberals?

Check Baldwin quoted former Nazi Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984):

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

Which of the above points identifies liberals? Why was Hitler rounding up Social Democrats?

Hitler rounded up people who were gay. Don’t we all know liberals are friends with gay people? This clip from the documentary The Corporation shows “Homosexual” and “Communist” were listed on the punch cards used to track people on their way to concentration camps. Those punch cards were provided by IBM.

In the below video Bill Moyers Journal examines hate speech on the airwaves that pushed one unemployed man to the breaking point. The man blamed Democrats for being unemployed and “destroying the country.” Since he couldn’t shoot a Democrat in power, he said he wanted to shoot one of the people who elect them.

Bill Moyers Journal points out talk radio aided in the genocide that took place in Rwanda. Hutu radio hosts called Tootsies “cockroaches.” People were dehumanized until it was “okay to kill them.” “They were just cockroaches.” “They were evil.” They didn’t deserve to live.

Bill Moyers neglects to mention similar behavior took place in Nazi Germany in order to psych the German people out enough to kill.

Former CIA consultant Chalmers Johnson has stated the US will collapse under the weight of the military industrial complex.  He has also stated an economic collapse is how both Mao and Hitler came to power.  If Mr. Johnson is correct, who in the United States has all the guns?  Who is armed to the teeth and who is not?

In Bill Moyers’s video he points out talk radio hosts are telling people the New York Times is a liberal publication. As former Reagan economist Paul Craig Roberts pointed out the New York Times assisted the Bush administration in convincing U.S. citizens an invasion of Iraq was necessary:

The American print and TV media have never been very good. These days they are horrible. If people intend to be informed, they must turn to foreign news broadcasts, to Internet sites, to foreign newspapers available on the Internet, or to alternative newspapers that are springing up in various cities. A person who sits in front of Murdoch’s Fox “News” or CNN or who reads the New York Times is simply being brainwashed with propaganda.

Before conservatives nod their heads in agreement, I’m not referring to “the liberal media.” I mean the propaganda that issues from the US government and the Israel Lobby.

It was neoconservative Bush regime propaganda fed to America through Judith Miller and the New York Times and through Murdoch’s Fox “News” that convinced Americans that they were in danger from a small secular Arab country half way around the globe called Iraq. It was the American media that convinced Americans that getting rid of dangerous “weapons of mass destruction,” weapons that did not exist in Iraq, would be a cakewalk paid for by Iraqi oil revenues.

It is the same propagandistic American print and TV media that have rationalized Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan based on seven years of lies and deception.

It is Corporate America who supports talk radio. Here are a couple of example of how they benefit.

Food, Inc points out the food industry started running ads in Mexico to recruit poor workers after NAFTA flooded Mexico with low cost corn. NAFTA put 1.3 million Mexican farmers out of business. Does Corporate America want you to hold them accountable, or is it better to pit people against each other?

Paul Craig Roberts (again a former Reagan economist) wrote an article titled Doomed by the Myths of Free Trade – How the Economy was Lost, which basically identifies how corporate America has outsourced the country. Corporate America is going to be a lot better off if people are pitted against each other over job and wage loss rather than corporate America.

Can people see why no one has given Paul Craig Roberts his own radio talk show. The Baltimore Chronicle describes Roberts as “The Father of Reaganomics.” I’m sure people would love to hear what Paul Craig Roberts has to say, and he would attract a large listening audience. This isn’t about ratings its about people listening to what they are supposed to be listening to.

More Information:

The documentary Manufacturing Consent was made in Canada based on Noam Chomsky’s book Manufacturing Consent . As the video explains, the title came from a book by Walter Lippmann.

Also see: Orwell Rolls in his Grave

Propaganda by Edward Bernays

Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann

If you watch some of the documentaries posted on this site, particularly Secret Government: Constitution in Crisis and The War on Democracy, you will see the US government usually uses “Socialism” as an excuse to organize a coup to take down a democratically elected Socialist and install a Fascist dictator.

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John Hagee is an Evangelical Christian who is against Palestinian peace talks and wants the US to strike Iran.

JOHN HAGEE:

The head of the beast of radical Islam in the Middle East is Iran and its fanatical president Ahmadinejad. Ladies and gentlemen, we are reliving history. It is 1938 all over again. Iran is Germany. Ahmadinejad is Hitler. And Ahmadinejad, just like Hitler, is talking about killing the Jews.

Instead of trying to prevent a holocaust, the man is trying to create one.

This video also points out John Hagee has endorsed John McCain, and John McCain has happily accepted his endorsement.

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Chris does an excellent job of explaining how US citizens are becoming radicalized by a loss of good paying jobs and a future.

Rather than turning their anger on the government who is selling them down the river so CEOs can make 400 to 500 times more than the average employee, their anger is being channeled on their fellow citizens.

Chris Hedges points out that both Republican’s and Democrats have forsaken the poor of the US.
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.Chris He doesn’t provide examples of the Democrats and Republicans forsaking the poor in the US, but I would like to bring up immigration as an example. Republicans say it’s great because no one wants these jobs, but who goes out and talks to the construction workers who have lost their jobs?My mother used to be a house keeper, but she couldn’t get more than $6 an hour for that job now.US citizens have lost these jobs, but does your house cost any less? Has it prevented the cost from going up? Who’s pocketing all the money?Democrat’s don’t care because they say it’s a racial issue. People who are angry about losing these jobs are racists. What about the factory workers who have lost their jobs to China? The millions who are losing their jobs to India, and other Asian countries.Other examples:Nixon opened up trade with ChinaNixon took the US off the Gold Standard

Bill Clinton pushed through NAFTA

Our trading partners have suffered, too – with huge increases in inequality and massive displacement. For example, at least 1.3 million Mexican farmers have lost their livelihood under NAFTA. As a result, the number of annual immigrants from Mexico to the United States surged from 332,000 in 1993, the year before NAFTA went into effect, to 530,000 in 2000 – a 60 percent increase.

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