reg: Ann Coulter is…veering into fascism

Fascism = blah, blah, blah

Don’t you mean President Obama?”

Still reeking…

“It” doesn’t reek, but “you” lie.

It reeks.

You bizarrely called FDR a “fascist” – which is really a perverse and indecent point of view that indicates you reside on the margins of political opinion – and defended that by invoking one contemporary writer who avows anarchism and a couple of obscure”classical liberals” from the ’30s – who showed their colors by opposing Roosevelt over support for the Allies in WWII. You added to the analytical mess by apparently assuming that folks of the Hayek-Van Mises stripe are my fellow “liberals” and “on the left.” You literally don’t know what the hell you’re talking about and are grabbing blindly at strange quotes that confirm your petty prejudices, regardless of how dubious or ideologically extreme the source. You are intellectually incompetent. It’s really that simple. For you to imply some sort of “envy” of your incompetence is pathetic. Okay, this is a waste of pixels on a ridiculous little prick…

In fact, my mother and I were talking about FDR this past weekend. In negotiations with my grandfather in a coal-miner’s strike, John L. Lewis took up for him and put FDR’s guys in their place after they unjustly attacked him.

But, the dislike for FDR goes much further and for more good reasons.

Okay, I’m through on this.

And I don’t want to upset the tender sensibilities of the intellectual giants, Jim R and Sergio.

That is the single funniest thing I’ve read in a long, long time. Marc, “Woody” has to be a covert creation of yours–it’s just too unbelievably bizarre. C’mon, fess up.

The guys in the quote that I provided were described as “classical liberals during the New Deal.” They were on your side of the table, which should make their statements about Roosevelt even more believable to a leftist like you.

Regarding Obama and FDR, TIME recently had a cover picture of FDR with the title saying “What Obama could learn from FDR.” My family has detested FDR for decades, for good reason, so it was pretty sickening to see his picture again, right after TIME had Obama on its cover thirteen times in the past year. I tossed the magazine rather than read it, just as I toss off your stupid comments.

You’re part of the “hate America” Right with this argument, asshole. And you don’t even get it…

This from a rightwing nutcase who calls Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama “fascists.”

You’re a sick fuck, Woody. Really just an ignorant political pervert. Racist, homophobic, dishonest…and ignorant as hell of both politics and economics. Crazy shit…

I could hardly be ignorant of economics and politics. You just won’t admit that I and the study that I linked are really correct.

The facism of Roosevelt is being taken to new heights by Obama.

…Interestingly enough, there was a group of classical liberals during the New Deal, John T. Flynn and Garet Garrett among them, who pointed out that Roosevelt was really espousing a form of fascism similar to Mussolini’s. Garrett wrote The People’s Pottage and Flynn wrote As We Go Marching, along with other critiques of the New Deal.

In his 1938 essay “The Revolution Was,” Garet Garrett wrote:

“There are those who think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of the Depression, singing songs to freedom.”
Huey Long is reputed to have said in 1935: “When Fascism comes to America it will be in the name of anti-Fascism!”

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Okay, passing, “construed” and “by any stretch of the imagination” are in no way similar. Right.

Woody, you’re such a fucking moron; David wasn’t saying that there was anything vague about Estrich and Krugman being friendly to Democrats, he was saying that they were the only ones who were by any stretch of the imagination.

Fascism was typefied by nationalist zenophobia, racism and intolerance toward liberal ideology. The Hayekian screwballs who attempt to link fascism to keynsianism and skip over all of the links between the Nazis and rightwing capitalists and racists during the ’30s are utterly disingenuous propagandists. See “Ford, Henry.”

You are ignorant of economics and politics. Totally. And a dishonest racist, homophobic hack.
Go back and masturbate to your wingnut websites…

I’ll grant that you’re not as incoherent as “Biff Larkin”, who sets some standard here for “not even being wrong.”

Reactionaries fear Free over a payment model. Reactionaries fear universal access to the means of production and publication because they fear and detest the people.

Reactionaries won’t tell you who they work for; how much money they make.

Fascism:

As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer.

Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners.

Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.)

Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities.

Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically.

In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.

Don’t you mean President Obama?