Question Of The Day

What's a Fascist?

Here are two examples.

(Images by Mark Urbin.)

A Fascist to The Left is anyone that opposes them.  But in fact a Fascist is someone, like Hillary Clinton and Benito Mussolini, that believes in the primacy of the state.

But there is another definition.

According to Josef Stalin a Fascist is anyone who opposes him.  This included Leon Trotsky who was a lifelong Marxist and the founder and original leader of Red Army along with being a servant of Vladimir Lenin.

Punishing a man for an act he did not commit is unjust. Imprisoning a man for speaking the truth is tyrannical. Disarming the citizens -- who are the sovereign authority of the nation -- is treason.  To say anything more would require the extensive use of barracks language.  There's no such thing as "common sense gun control" those who are in favor of banning firearms are enemies of Humanity and should be treated in the Nuremberg style, from the neck until dead.  And there's no limit to what a Statist can do to a disarmed victim.

The Appeal To Emotion

An ability that we as Human Beings have is to be able to learn from our own errors  And to preferably learn from the errors made by others.

In his campaign for the office of President of the United States in 1964 Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater made numerous errors.  One mistake that stood out in particular was the Appeal To Emotion.  During the campaign he said:

In your heart you know he’s right.

This one statement was absolutely wrong.  In it Senator Goldwater asked us to not actually see things as they are.  He are also asks us to not use the uniquely Human capacity to conceptually think and to construct a larger and complete mental picture that incorporates all of our actual knowledge.

In this one statement we are asked to not think and only to make a decision on the base of an emotion.  And in the real world the result of acting on emotion instead of rational thought is invariably a failure.

But that’s not the whole picture.  The Appeal To Emotion is a tactic used by statist politicians around the world.  And it was  most effectively used by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Barack Obama.

But if the Appeal To Emotion is wrong then why should they use it at all?

In the above mentioned cases the politicians and their parties are absolutely wrong.  Their programs and the underlying philosophy can be illuminated by rational thought and then properly rejected as being completely wrong.  Thus those who believe in the primacy of the state can only obtain their desired powers through the deception of the electorate. 

Unfortunately for us the cultural foundation for winning through the Appeal To Emotion has already been laid.  Throughout the nations of the West the intellectual establishment has been taken over by Marxists and other nihilists in general.  To immunize their doctrines from the effect of rational thought they have systematically denounced the exercise of reason.  Although their goal is the triumph of Marxism they have also opened the virtual gates of the West to the savagery of Islam.

To survive and ultimately to prosper we must bring back Reason as the way of life. 

Saturday Quote

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."

- Benito Mussolini

Yes, That sounds like the Obama Administration in action.