Jonah Goldberg of Liberal Fascism fame, makes one of the greatest arguments I have read. He debunks the myth of the Democrats as one of the people, but as the Big Business. I am pro Free Market as anyone but Jonah makes a great valid point. The Democrats and their alliance with Big Business are anti-Capitalist.
In fact one can argue they are Fascism since Mussolini believed in State Capitalism. The concept of the state and corporations working as one for common interest or a third way between Marxism and Capitalism. It’s no coincidence that many Progressive Democrats call themselves the Third Way. Fascism itself was a Progressive movement that believed in many of the same ideas as today’s American Progressives, even the concept of state Corporatism.
One of the great frustrations of the libertarian-minded right is how Republicans got stuck being “the party of big business.”
The quotation marks around the term are at least somewhat necessary because, in many respects, it’s not true.
The notion that big business is “right wing” has always been more sloppy agitprop than serious analysis. It’s true that historically, big business is against socialism and communism — and understandably so. Socialism and communism were once close to synonymous with expropriation of wealth and the nationalization of industry. What businessman or industrialist wouldn’t be against that? But many of those same industrialists saw nothing wrong with cutting deals with statist regimes. For example, the Swope Plan, put forward by Gerard Swope, president of General Electric, laid out the infrastructure for much of the early New Deal.
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Jonah nails the Progressives correctly here. In fact, Big Government and Big Business go hand in hand. They collude to dominate both the Free Market and the political process. This has created a corresponding set of interest that is actually anti-Capitalist and anti-Freedom.
This is an opportunity for the Conservative-Libertarian Coalition to turn the class warfare of the Left against them. The Democrats are the party of the elite who seek to prevent others in the population to achieve wealth creation. This is a Neo-Feudal attitude and Goldberg gives advice to the GOP.
My biggest objection is not to what isn’t true about the claim that the right is the handmaiden to big business, it’s to what is true. Too many Republicans think being pro-business is the same as being pro-market. They defend the status quo against bad reforms and think they’ve defended economic freedom. The status quo stinks. And the sooner Republicans learn that, the sooner they’ll deserve to win again.
He is correct in his analysis. We need a Free Market and not a Corporatist-Fascistic economic system. It is the Right of all Americans to be allowed the pursuit of wealth creation. By preventing this, Progressives are pursuing Anti-American policies. We need to call them out on their Progressive-Fascist economic ideas.
Update: Here is a video showing the how Fascism and Socialism are Totalitarian:
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