Totalitarian leaders in the U.S.

Franklin Deleno Roosevelt may have been the closest of any one President to being a totalitarian ruler of the United States -- and he wasn't the only one. This may sound far fetched, yet when you consider the facts, you can see for yourself, and decide for yourself, if I'm right.

Consider for a moment the definition of totolitarian from Dictionary.com:

Of or pertaining to a central government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life; exercising control over freedom, will, thought of others; authoritarian; autocratic

As we review the history of the progressive movement, we can see that these philosophies call for experts in Washington (preferably liberal experts) to make decisions for the people in a variety of areas. A good example are elected, or non-elected, officials in Washington deciding what all kids will learn. Another example is Obamacare, which forces everyone to buy healthcare for their own good. 

Liberals often can't stand to hear the voices of opposing parties, and therefore are always trying to come up with ways to shut up voices they don't agree with, like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the entire Fox News Network. While Conservatives want to hear more of the voices of opposition, liberals want to shut them up (they will deny this, of course).

Progressives also made it so everyone has to go to a public school (unless they can afford the alternative, and most people can't). They made it so no one can pray in a public school, we must all pitch into social security for our own good, when we earn money the government must take some and decide for you how to spend it.
So you can see, progressivism and totolitarianism go hand in hand. And while Woodrow Wilson became a totolitarian ruler during WWI, and Obama has made a gallant effort to become one recently, FDR is a quentisential example of a U.S. President who had obtained totalitarian control.
FDR, in a sense, was a kinder version of the fascist dictators of Europe: Hitler, Stalin and Mousolini. He took over teh office and became Amercas totalitarian dictator. Yet while Europe's fascit dictators had complete totolitarian control, a U.S. President has the U.S. Constitution in his way.
Like Hitler, he was charismatic and a great speaker (So is Obama), and even while he was harming America, and even though most Americans were stunned and surprised at the direction he was taking this country, he convinced Americans to vote for him.
Rather, one might say he started government programs for the "betterment of the people," and he used these programs at his will to buy voters and to punish those who opposed him. Lest, if you didn't support his agenda, you didn't get government money.
He, like Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin, was a totalitarian dictator. Allow me to provide proof. You decide for yourself.

1. Father McLaughlin supported FDR ardently during his initial campaign in 1932. Although he thought FDR was not liberal enough, and started to talk bad about FDR on his radio program. Because FDR disagreed with what Father was saying, he called him a fascist and forced his radio program off the air. this was unconstitutional, but FDR did it anyway. This is similar to what progressives want to do with Conservative radio and Fox News today.
2. Huey Long was another ardent supporter of FDR, but then he spoke out against FDRs Agricultural Adjustment Act and his National Recovery Act as being too socialist. FDR used the IRS to destroy Huey Long. Long was also a threat to run as a third party, which would have split the democratic vote and allowed a republican to win. So FDR had no choice but to ruin Huey Long.
3. Joseph McCarthy was correct in noting FDR had over 30 Soviet supporters on his staff. FDR knew McCarthy was close to the truth, and so he used his popularity to discredid McCarthy. The Venona accords released in 1992 proved McCarthy was right all along, but it was too late. McCarthy was ridiculed so much he died an early death.
4. FDR raised the highest tax rate to 90% so he could have access to all the profits, and he could decide what to do with the people's money. He basically took from the haves and gave to the poor, and thus redistributed wealth just as Stalin, Hitler and Mousolini did.
5. On April 27, 1942, he signed an executive order taxing all personal income over $25,000 at 100%. Congress balked at this and made it 90% at the top level, and started taxing those who made $500 at 20% rate. Clearly he had forgotten the benefits of the 1920s tax cuts and capitalism. All excess income should go to win the war.
6. On July 1941 he proposed a 99.5% tax rate on all income over $100,000. He defended it by saying, "Why now? None of us is ever going to make $100,000 a year."
7. Via the 1933 Emergency Banking Act FDR forced all people with gold to turn their gold over to the government in exchange for paper money. Those who refused to do so were fined and or imprisoned. Likewise, all previous contracts with Gold were null and void.
8. He forced Japanese Americans to live in Concentration camps during WWII. Sure they weren't treated as poorly as the Jewish in Germany, but he still used one of Hitlers mothods.
9. He forced Americans to ration for food during WWII.
10. Many of his own economic advisors advised him to cut taxes to stimulate the economy by encouraging people to invest, and he refused because he blamed Andrew Mellon, and Calvin Coolidge and Warren G. Harding's capitalistic tax cuts for the depression.
11. The Reciprical Trade Agreement of 1934 gave FDR unprecidented power to determine Tariffs on a country by country basis. He used this to coerce businessmen and industries to cooperate with him or risk increased tariffs on their goods and services which would increase prices and decrease demand. This is also one of his methods for buying votes.
12. Pilot Eddie Richenbacher predicted FDRs new Air Mail Act would result in the deaths of Army Corp men now forced to deliver air mail, and when he planned to criticize FDR on NBC, orders came from Washington to take him off the air.
13. William Randolf Hearst, a newspaper tycoon, found himself under investigation by the IRS when he opposed FDR. FDR longed for a World Court (a first step in obtaining a New World Order), adn Long, Hearst and Father McLaughlin opposed it.
14. Boake Carter was another radio commentator who opposed FDRs attempt to pack Supreme Court and he was duly investigated by the IRS. FDR also had his men try to see if Carter was an illegal alien so they could have him deported.
15. FDR pushed up his opposition and therefore the people wer eunable to learn about the fact FDRs policies were contrary to improving the economy. He created his programs to buy votes, and used his programs to shut up those who spoke out against him. By doing this, he won re-election three times.
16. He also had the FBI and the IRS after Hamilton Fish, the republican Congressman from FDR's home district who kept winning re-election.
17. Local political opponents of FDR had to keep quiet lest FDR hunt them down with the IRS or FBI or cut other programs to their liking.
18. Like Obama now, his actions were dedicated toward unpopular causes.
19. He jailed those who disobeyed the NRA
20. He tried to pack the Supreme Court
21. He purged democrats who tried to oppose his centralization of political power (an essential ingredient to obtaining totalitarian control and his progressive agenda and similar to Obama's quest to transform America).
22. FDR often castigated businessmen and threatened to raise tax rates further if they opposed him.
23. U.S. had a whopping 325% increase in excise revenue from 1929 to 1938. These taxes fell mainly on the lower incomes, and may have contributed to the poorer rate of recovery from teh Great Depression
24. Corporate taxes increased to a top rate of 7 0% and the U.S. alone passed an undistributed profits tax.
25. Businessmen watched the top rate of the Federal Income Tax increase from 24-63% in 1932 under Hoover, and then to 79% in 1935 under FDR.
26. He used the IRS to prosecute wealthy Americans, especially republicans (as noted above)
27. He created incentives for businessmen to shift their investments into areas of lesser taxation
28. In 1929 the U.S. had the lowest unemployment of all nations who would have joined the League of Nations, and dropped to 8th place in 1932, 11th in 1937, and then 13th by 1938. So u nder FDR unemployment got worse and worse and not better.
29. He used subsidies and political capital, money and tools to get re-elected. He was first to buy votes with the very programs he created. So, however, unpopular he programs were, he kept getting re-elected.
30. He also used political subsidies to punish enemies and reward friends.
31. In this way, he controlled taxpayer subsidies.
32. Special Interests who lobbied in favor of FDR got special subsidies and were favored for government loans.
33. FDR used government expenditures to persuade voters. He was the best at doing this. He caused America to be trapped in the debt spiral of special interest spending
34. Spending created fanatic lobying and a never ending cycle of more spending (still going on to this day, as Obama has upped the national debt over the trillion dollar mark).
35. In 1936 before the Presidential election, FDR added 300,000 to the work relief program (WPA). In the months following the election, 300,000 were removed from the WPA.
36. Work Relief expenditures increased sharply -- 268% increase from fall of 1935 to the fall of 1936 -- the biggest increase of 3,663% was in Pensylvania, a swing state that Hoover had carried in 1932, and FDR specially targed in 1936.
37. A plan was in place to make sure the Soil conservation Service checks arrived in Farm households before the election of 1936 to ensure votes for FDR -- 4 farm states were in the balance.
38. Alf Landon said "If he (FDR) did not have $5 billion (of WPA money to dole out) his election would be very much in doubt.
39. FDR ran on this issue with signs saying, "Relief for Votes," subtitled "will the American people accept the imputation tht their votes can be bought with reief money." Another leaflet said, "If we don't stop the New Deal the nation will go bankrupt.
40. Funny thing, Landon tried to win votes by denouncing government programs, but he had to do it without alienating the increasingly large number of voters who had Federal jobs, or hoped to have them. In this sense, republicans couldn't get re-elected even though FDRs programs were unpopular.

We must note that the Constitution was written with power widely dispersed to prevent a strong president or legislature from increasing it's authority adn gradually turning the U.S. into a tyrany.
As noted by Burton Fulsom Jr in his book New Deal or Raw Deal, "In crafting the Constitution, the founders emphasized process, not results. If we follow the Constitution, we won't have a perfect society, which is unattainable by imperfect humans. But we will provide opportunity for people to use their natural rights to pursue the acquisition of property and their natural rights to pursue their own personal happiness."
All progressive policies were created by ignoring the Constitution, and this resulted in less power to the people, less ability to make decisions how to spend money, less individualism, less freedom of speech, less freedom overal, and an overal worsening of the American dream. Totolitarianism was the result.
All of this totalitarianism created uncertainty, and caused the Great Depresion to extend through the 1930s to the 1940s.
Material for the above posts came from the following sources:
1. New Deal or Raw Deal: How FDRs economic policyhas damaged America, by Burton Fulsom Jr.
2. The Forgotten man: The new history of the Great Depression, by Amity Shlaes

How FDR got re-elected over and again

As noted here, FDR raised taxes to unprecidented levels, he ordered Americans to sell their gold or face prosecution, he jailed people who spoke out against his policies. He put Japanese Americans in Concentration camps, he threatened businessmen with even higher taxes if they didn't support his programs.

Utterly said, despite what we learn in schools, FDR was a scary President. And many people knew he was scary, and knew his programs were making the economy worse rather than better. Despite this, he kept getting re-elected. How?

I have the answers:

1. He used the IRS and FBI to prosecute people who did not agree with him, and therefore many Americans were simply too scared to oppose him
2. Many Americans were afraid if they opposed him they would have their federal relief funds taken away.
3. Many business men were threatened with higher taxes if they opposed him and he won, and therefore they were threatened to vote for FDR.
4. FDR pushed up his opposition and therefore the people were unable to learn about the fact FDRs policies were contrary to improving the economy.
5. He created his programs to buy votes, and used his programs to shut up those who spoke out against him. By doing this, he won re-election three times.
6. Local political opponents of FDR had to keep quiet lest FDR hunt them down with the IRS or FBI or cut other programs to their liking.
7. He used subsidies and political capital, money and tools to get re-elected. He was first to buy votes with the very programs he created. So, however, unpopular his programs were, he kept getting re-elected.
8. He also used political subsidies to punish enemies and reward friends.
9. Special Interests who lobbied in favor of FDR got special subsidies and were favored for government loans.
10. FDR used government expenditures to persuade voters. He was the best at doing this.
11. In 1936 before the Presidential election, FDR added 300,000 to the work relief program (WPA). In the months following the election, 300,000 were removed from the WPA.
12. Work Relief expenditures increased sharply -- 268% increase from fall of 1935 to the fall of 1936 -- the biggest increase of 3,663% was in Pensylvania, a swing state that Hoover had carried in 1932, and FDR specially targed in 1936.
13. A plan was in place to make sure the Soil conservation Service checks arrived in Farm households before the election of 1936 to ensure votes for FDR -- 4 farm states were in the balance.
14. Alf Landon said "If he (FDR) did not have $5 billion (of WPA money to dole out) his election would be very much in doubt.
15. FDR ran on this issue with signs saying, "Relief for Votes," subtitled "will the American people accept the imputation tht their votes can be bought with reief money." Another leaflet said, "If we don't stop the New Deal the nation will go bankrupt.
16. Funny thing, Landon tried to win votes by denouncing government programs, but he had to do it without alienating the increasingly large number of voters who had Federal jobs, or hoped to have them. In this sense, republicans couldn't get re-elected even though FDRs programs were unpopular.
17. Landon hailed before cheering crowd at Madison Square Garden that it was bad to use "public money for political purposes" as FDR was doing. He said, "I am against the principles of the AAA and... the concentration of power in the3 hands of the Chief executive."
18. Republican problem since 1936 was that they risked offending the 10,000 voters working in federal programs if they hailed for cutting government programs to balance the budget. (this is actually a problem that is ongoing to this day). This is also why many republicans get caught in the trap of increasing government programs to buy votes.
19. He got people excited about voting who normally don't vote, such as young people and blacks

In a sense, the progressives of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and FDR started a slippery slope that resulted in an Obama Presidency with our Trillions of dollars in debt and so many government programs we have to borrow from China to pay for it.
Quite often the Presidency is not won by character alone as it was in the past. Now, once elected, a president can buy votes by creating and doling out subsidies.
Material for the above posts came from the following sources:
1. New Deal or Raw Deal: How FDRs economic policyhas damaged America, by Burton Fulsom Jr.
2. The Forgotten man: The new history of the Great Depression, by Amity Shlaes

Byrd whitnessed FDR twist the truth

Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia was a democrat who came from a family that had fallen on hard times in the early 1900s. In 1902, at the age of 15, he took over the family newspaper -- Winchester Evening Star -- and, through hard work and long hours, made the paper prosperous.

Then he purchased apple orchards and made that prosperous too. By 1930 75% of his crop was exported. Then, as a result of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, the cost of exporting apples rose so much that Europeans stopped buying his product and he was forced so sell domestically to stay profitable. He had to pay his employees $1.00 per day, a drop from $2.50 per day in the 1920s when business was booming.

Byrd was among the opposition to FDRs programs because he believed in the free market system. He grew his company from the ground up because the economic environment created by Harding and Coolidge via tax cuts and by getting government out of the way was great for business.

Byrd was a major critic of the AAA, and when he approached FDR, FDR made Byrd look like it was Byrd who was the bad guy. FDR said, "I know what's the matter with Byrd, he's afraid you'll force him to pay more than ten cents for his apple pickers."

FDR put Byrd on the defense just like liberals today chant things like republicans don't care about the poor when they preach for tax cuts for the rich, or that republicans are prejudiced because they don't support affirmative action.

FDR was a great word twister. The truth was that it was FDR who was destroying the economy by making himself a totalitarian dictator. Yet people didn't see this at the time because FDR was such a great speaker, and people were mistakenly brainwashed into believing capitalism created the 1929 crash.

The National Recovery Act of 1933

Ever heard of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA). Actually, it was later changed to NRA, although that point is mute. This was an act passed in 1933 by an American Congress that allowed "American Industrialists to collaborate to set the prices of their products, and even the wages and hours that went into making them."

That's according to Burton Folsom, Jr. in his book "New Deal or Raw Deal." A very good book overall about the Great Depression. It provides a great overall history that is often overlooked in other history books, and in the classroom.

The NRA allowed "leaders in all industries, from steel and coal to shoulder pads and dog food," to sit together over lunch and write "'Codes of fair competition' that would be binding on all producers in their industry. Laborers were often allowed to organize, and antitrust laws were suspended."

So it allowed the President to regulate industry (power Hitler and Stalin and Mussolini also sought and obtained) and to create public works programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps which was a group of young men who were hired by the government to do meaningless jobs just so the government had a reason to pay them.

Although, we must note here, every dollar spend to make a bridge, or to plant a tree, or other such project, is a dollar that is not spent into the market, and ultimately one less worker that can be hired. Ultimately, the NRA lead to more unemployment, not less.

Does that sound like a fair and Constitutional law to you. Well, it was actually overturned by the Supreme Court as Unconstitutional, but it was a gallant attempt by the FDR administration to thwart the Constitution in the name of Progressivism and control the markets.

Yep, the free market was overthrown for a while with this law. Industries could not only set prices, but they could also determine how many hours to be worked by workers. And also raise wages. In total, there were 540 such codes written.

Some businesses did not participate, but whether it did or not it would be bound by the rules set forth by other businesses in the industry.

So nothing like forcing one business to do what it does not want to do. If the business that didn't want to comply does not comply, he could be fined and sent to jail. And FDR used this to send many of his enemies to jail. Yes, this happened in America. Many men were jailed for failing to comply with the government totolitarian demands. It would be like living in Iran, Syria or North Korea today.

Henry Ford was one of the few industrialists who refused to sign the agreement and was not jailed. He said he did not want to punish his customers with higher prices. Although he was strongly urged to "join the party." Ford rightly denounced the law as "un-American and unconstitutional."

The totolitarian FDR wanted complete control of the markets, and tried to pressure Ford. But he would not give. He never gave in, although FDR refused to give Ford any government contracts. Burton notes that since there was a large increase in government business back then, that was a lot of business Ford lost. But Ford stood firm on his principle.

It kind of reminds me of the Obama Health care package that thwarts the Constitution and will ultimately force people to get health care or... what? Go to jail? Go to prison? Pay a hefty fine? All this just to be an American?

Burton notes that Adam Smith in 1776 warned against this type of price fixing system and what would occur if it eventually happened: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the contrivance to raise prices," Smith wrote. "But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary."

This Act actually falsely raised wages while productivity and competition were down. FDR did whatever he could to set higher wages. He wanted higher wages to give people who were working more purchasing power so they would buy more goods and services. FDR actually believed this would help end the Great Depression.

Any business who joined the NRA placed a sticker in their window that showed the Blue Eagle. Actually, this is how the Philadelphia Eagles obtained their name. Plus the announcement was written: "NRA Member: We do our part." That meant: we do our part to help end the depression. Ironically, they were really making the depression worse.

Burton notes the person who is in favor of competition, the capitalist, the conservative, was evil because he contributed to the booming 1920s which ultimately resulted in loss of confidence in the market that resulted in banks collapsing.

Actually, it was Acts like this that prolonged the Great Depression, because it made it so businesses could not afford to hire new workers. In fact, as Burton writes, "Their faith in the NRA was not based on the laws of economics, on knowledge of supply and demand, or on human nature. Likewise, even progressive economists John Maynard Keynes said this would not work.

Smaller companies were not able to complete with bigger companies, and closed up shop. This resulted in even more unemployment. The people who lost out most were not so much the companies at all, but the consumers.

If other industries had worked together to set high prices, many products would be priced out of the market. If in 1980 computer companies had set the price at $1,000, few would have been sold, and the innovation that eventually led to the Internet would have been stymied. People would have to work harder to learn, and that would have led to even fewer innovations, such as no GPSs and iPods and other great inventions. We never would have seen the Internet bubble.

The reverse of the NRA, capitalism, leads to innovation, as we saw in the 1920s when many new innovations were made in the U.S. market, and later in the 1980s. Competition is needed to set prices and to for cheaper products to appear on the market.

In fact, the case that brought the NRA before the Supreme Court claimed The Schechter brothers, who sol chickens, sold them at wages below what the code permitted, and he also allowed consumers to choose their own chickens rather than demanding the customer pick chickens at random from a pile.

This case, Burton writes, was so "astonishing to the justices of the Supreme Court that Joseph Heller (the lawyer representing the Fed) had to clarify it repeatedly. Under the NRA code, he explained, 'the customer is not permitted to select the ones (chickens) he wants. He must put his hand in the coop when he buys from the slaughterhouse and take the first chicken that comes to hand. He has to take that.' According to the transcript of the trial, that response produced a rarity -- open laughter in the Supreme Court chamber." Later, one justice said, "Well, suppose, however, that all the chickens have gone over to one end of the coop?". That produced more laughter, before the court ruled the Act to be ridiculous.

While the Act was set to expire in June of 1935, the Supreme Court ruled it Unconstitutional on May 27, 1935. On September 5, 1935, the Blue Eagle was abolished and prevented from ever being used again.

FDR was frustrated that he lost control of the market, and claimed it would have worked if it weren't for "selfish" industries getting carried away.

Progressives loved Stalin, Mousolini

Yes, it is true. Progressives loved Stalin and Mussolini. At least that was the case until it turned out those progressives, fascists, were actually doing some really bad things over there. In fact, some progressives actually "loved what Hitler was doing over there," before it came out what his ulterior goal was.

Some progressives actually noted that they were jealous of Stalin because he made his country more progressive and faster than what was going on here in the United States. Of course such talk ceased once word got out that Hitter, Stalin and Mussolini were bad people.

I'm not joking here either. And, ironically, this is the part of the progressive history that progressive leaders don't want us to remember, and so they have left this part out of the history books our kids learn from in school.

As Jonah Goldberg notes in his book, "Liberal Fascism," "There were of course significant differences between fascism and Progressivism, but these are mainly attributable to the cultural differences between Europe and America, and between national cultures in general.

Progressivism in America, and fascism in Europe, were basically one and the same, and a trend of the times between 1900 and the 1930s. The goal, as Goldberg writes, and several other experts have noted, was to obtain "the great utopia." If we could take from the rich and give to the poor, we can make a world where there is no poor.

Although, as history later proves, there is no evidence a government can achieve such goals. Yet that wasn't evident in the early 20th century. Progressivism, fascism, was a "worldwide movement."

Jane Adams, at the 1912 progressive convention, noted that progressivism is like a science, and in science there is experimentation. Although, what she didn't realize, as none of the other progressives did at the time, was that if you "experiment" with something and you don't know what you're doing, you might create a bigger mess than you might expect.

Hence is the case with the progressive movement, and is why Europe is enveloped today in an economic disaster, and why America (still lagging behind Europe in the progressive movement) under Obama (and to some extend George W. Bush) is headed in the same direction if an opposing force doesn't stop it.

Goldberg mentions many members of the FDR administration who were "awed" by what was going on in Europe. He writes, "For countless liberals, Mussolini, Lenin, and Stalin were all doing the same thing (as we progressives here in America): transforming corrupt, outdated societies.

In his own way, Goldberg writes, Woodrow Wilson was as much a part of modernizing the world, creating a more "evolved" world, organizing society so it was a better, more euphoric place, ideal place, as was Mussolini.

Hence note that, like Mussolini and Stalin and perhaps to some extend Hitler, Woodrow Wilson dictated his agenda through rationing, price fixing, telling Americans they needed to make "great sacrifices such as "meatless" and "wheatless" days. In this way, he was a totalitarian, controlling his people.

Benito Mussoline made the same claims that American progressives made, that he wanted to create a perfect society with perfect citizens who put society ahead of their individual needs. He was actually influenced by many of the same minds who influenced American progressives, including Karl Marx. He actually wanted to fight on the American side, but he ended up supporting Hitler, and was therefore called a right winger, even though he still had the same values as American Progressives.

FDR, like Wilson, became known for forcing rationalizing, placing American Japanese in concentration camps around the country, forcing Americans to turn in their gold, and the like. He, in this way like Hitler and Stalin, was a dictator. He was a socialist in the mould of Karl Marx. He was for social reform, just as the Europeans were for social reform.

Another thing Wilson and FDR did that was Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini-like, was to silence dissent. They often imprisoned people who spoke out about the war, or criticized. They both were known to even shut down newspapers that spoke out against the war. Can you imagine if that happened in 2003 during the Iraq War?

Wilson had the sedition act that banned "uttering, printing, writing, or publishing any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the United States government or the military."

Goldberg notes, "The government was given the authority to deny mailing privileges to any publication he saw fit -- effectively shutting it down. At least 75 periodicals were banned. Foreign publications were not allowed unless their content was first translated and approved by censors. Journalists also faced the very real threat of being jailed or having their supply of newsprint terminated by the War Industries Board. 'Unacceptable' articles included any discussion -- no matter how high minded or patriotic -- that disparaged the draft."

Sauerkraut was called "liberty cabbage." German measles were often called, "liberty measles."

Goldberg notes, "Hard numbers are difficult to come by, but it has been estimated that some 175,000 Americans were arrested for failing to demonstrate their patriotism in one way or another. All were punished, many went to jail."

Totalitarian. Marxist. Whatever you want to call it.

Benito Mussolini was doing many similar things. In fact, Goldberg notes, he was influenced by many of the same people progressives in America were influenced by: Marx, Nietzshe, Hegel, James, etc.

Yet, although what he was doing was eerily similar to what FDR was doing in America, when he decided to side with Hitler, he was deemed by American scholars as "right wing" even though he was actually quite "left wing."

Similar things occur today, as many liberals have threatened a return of the Fairness Doctrine because they don't like people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity talking bad about liberalism, or revealing the truth about the Progressive movement. If they can't shut them up, they at least want equal time for liberal talk show hosts, who otherwise cannot get their shows on the air because nobody wants to listen to them.

When Conservatives speak on popular TV shows like the Today Show they are introduced as "controversial," while when a progressive like Al Gore goes on the same show in the same day, he is introduced as, "Vice President Al Gore," with no mention of the liberal tag.

Goldberg notes, "In the liberal telling of America's story, there are only two perpetrators of official misdeeds: conservatives" and right wingers. So, even when someone is a progressive, fascist, socialist just as they are, they are called "right wingers," or "controversial."

Just as Mussolini was called a right winger, Newt Gingrich today is called a right winger, and even the progressive John McCain is referred to as a right winger by the media when their is a more progressive Obama running for President.

They also rewrite history. Did I mention that before. For instance, as Goldberg notes, you hardly hear tale that many progressives were supporters of Eugenics. You hardly hear tale that many with mental disabilities were castrated so they couldn't procreate. This was all their attempt to create an "ideal" people.

Yet, this was quickly set aside when it was realized Americans didn't like what was going on in Europe, especially Germany. And, later it was realized Stalin was killing his people too if he didn't like them, and castrating those he didn't want reproducing in order to create a more idealistic Russia.

Goldberg notes that "conservatives, meanwhile, not only take the blame for events not of their own making that they often worked the most assiduously against, but find themselves defending liberal misdeeds in order to defend America herself."

The goal of both progressives in America and Fascists in Europe (of course neither is called such anymore, but is still the same), is to assure that there is no dividing line between the rich and the poor."

Hitler had a similar goal, when he preached, "What a difference compared with a certain other (Spain). There it is class against class, brother against brother. We have chosen the other route: rather than wrench you apart, we have brought you together."

However evil this sounds, that is the goal here in America for progressives too. That is why Woodrow Wilson and his progressive administration sought for and got passage of the progressive tax. They did so by "lying" to Americans that it would only generate a 3% tax on the upper class. Once it was passed the tax was ultimately increased to 75%.

The goal is to create "social programs" that benefit the poor. To pay for them, money must be taken from those who work. "You must do your fair share," is a common chant back then and now by progressives. "You must do your fair share for the state."

"Of course," Goldberg is smart to note, "such Utopian dreams would have to come at the price of personal liberty. But progressives and fascist alike were glad to pay it."

Note Volksgemeinschaft: a Nazi slogan about placing the common good before the private good.

Again, Goldberg notes, "This is the elephant in the corner that the American left has never been able to admit, explain or comprehend. Their inability and/or refusal to deal squarely with this fact has distorted our understanding of our politics, and ourselves. Liberals keep saying 'it can't happen here' with a clever wink or an ironic smile to insinuate that the right is constantly plotting fascist schemes. Meanwhile, hiding in plain sight is this simple fact: it did happen here, and it might very well happen again. To see the threat, however, you must look over your left shoulder, not your right."

Now we have Obama. Oh, how we did see it coming, yet nobody listened.

FDR made the Great Depression last a lot longer, and Obama is set to go the same route

I have written on my blog before how I honestly and truly believe that the great depression was made longer by government intervention. I debated this even with my very own brother -- and he called me an idiot.

Okay, so he is more civil than most liberals, and did not call me an idiot. In better terms, we joked it off and changed the subject faster than a mouse can run when you spot it.

But during the 1800s there were several depressions, and the President was encouraged to intervene all of those times. Grover Clevelant was President one of those times, and he said it is not the role of government to intervene, that economies go up and down NATURALLY.

Hence, with government intervention, we are playing with fire -- making a problem worse. When you make a problem worse it takes twice as long to put it out. And that is exactly what happened during the great depression.

Herbert Hoover raised taxes on the rich and used every government means to force businesses to this or that, and the end result was that those businesses were forced to go out of business. He turned a recession into a depression because he thought he HAD to do something.

And that's exactly what we don't want during a recession. Obama seems to not have heeded a lesson from history and is doomed to repeat the failures of the past. Obama might be HOOVER all over again.

Yes, it is true, FDR made what Hoover did even worse. Well, I'm not going to go over this proven again and again theme that government cannot solve problems and usually make them worse again on this blog -- been there and done that.

However, I would like to link you to an excellent blog post today that does just that. Here, click here and I'll morph you over to Z's blog.