The circle of dictators – from King George to King Barry

In my life, I have been called many things, most often of a pejorative nature (not sure if this speaks more about me or my detractors). But one moniker that has always stuck in my craw has been the fascist label. Being a libertarian that believes in the individual, I believe the use of the term fascist to demean true conservatives is wholly misplaced. My guess is this speaks more to the ignorance of liberals than to the difficulty in defining what truly is fascism.

When we think of fascist governments, what first comes to mind is Hitler’s Germany, and Mussolini’s Italy. This is why the left love to call Republicans Nazis, wrongly assuming right thinking individuals desire a fascist government. Let’s analyze what fascism is and see how mislead they are about American conservatives.

Robert Paxton, in his book, The Anatomy of Fascism, defines fascism as:

a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy, but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion

To be sure, some of the preoccupations Paxton lists can be attributed to conservatives, but all of them can be listed as progressive “issues”. When liberals aren’t bitching about tax-cuts, they are always bitching about the failure of our inner-cities, the “victims” of America, and no group likes to make more “cults” of unity and purity than the left (La Raza, NAACP, CAIR).

The only claim the left has for calling conservatives fascists is our love for the military and our patriotism, which in the past has often been used by fascist dictators to unite their countries. But conservatives do not see the military as a vehicle for political gain, we see it for what it truly is, the defender of our Constitution. And we don’t see love of country as a reason to exclude outsiders, in fact, we welcome immigrants as long as they accept America is not the crappy country they came from (and shouldn’t try to make her that way) but a destination for freedom seeking peoples who desire a better life that only America can provide.

This leads us to how the traditional left-right political spectrum fails. Traditionally, the right on the spectrum are described as reluctant or fearful of change, and desire to “go back” to some form of government that existed prior. The left on the spectrum are described as desiring change, and seek to “move forward” to some form of government not yet tried. These definitions do not define American philosophy in any accurate nor usable way.

The right, in our desire to go back, actually want to go back and then stop at one form of government only, the most liberal and ground-breaking form of government the world has ever seen, the original American Republic. We don’t desire a one-party government ruled by military elites with total state control of the people by demolishing the concepts of individualism and personal responsibility. In fact, we desire the exact opposite. We want a small government that allows the individual to prosper by taking risks that he will be held accountable for.

Conversely, what has the left always desired? In one style or another, some form of dictatorship. Whether it be the dictatorship of a king, or the Fuehrer, or the Commissar, the progressives always go full circle from one dictatorship to another. The original liberals who founded our great nation were battling the original progressives when they desired a government devoid of a king; a government where the individual reigns supreme. Where business is allowed to prosper, not made to prosper by an overly restrictive state that picks the winners and losers. Where the military is used to protect the people, not keep them under the heel of the elite.

Obviously, back in the day, the peeps seeking to maintain the status quo with England were not called progressives, but they possessed the same mindset. They believed the unwashed masses were too ignorant and meek to be able to rule themselves. They feared the mob mentality of the people if America declared its liberty from the King. They failed to see (or they saw perfectly well) the unwashed masses were too ignorant and meek mainly because the ruling elite and the King kept them that way. And the ruling elite and our defacto king’s of late are doing the same thing.

The American Constitution is a singular stop of individual freedom on the merry-go-round of dictatorships that has been humanity’s typical desire for governance. Where have we been heading? Towards a socialist style dictatorship with hints of fascism. Everyone is a victim. American patriotism is bad, but multiculturalism is king (I like to call it world nationalism). State control is the only solution to the injustice of “the system”. Class warfare dictates the people and companies who employ us are evil, and in some cases, “the government running all your companies”, to quote Maxine Waters. The left has called for making President Obama a dictator, which if you haven’t noticed, he is acting like already, thanks to a wool covered Congress who conveniently forgot they are supposed to be the counter-balance to an overly aggressive Executive.

Our Constitution works, if you don’t ignore it. Unfortunately, the progressives have been seeking to change what it means since day one, and if that is unsuccessful, using any means necessary to subvert it. If we actually lived by that document, the ills currently plaguing America would not exist. But if we did that, then we would be living in the antithesis of the liberal dream, a country where the individual is the most important and the collective is rarely considered. A country where the least important person is the President, and the Congress only works a few months out of the year, because their freaking job is truly not that important and should be part-time. But we have been convinced that governing us is a full-time job that only lawyers and doctors can accomplish – that you must be a Rhodes Scholar or Harvard Law Professor to understand the complexities of the extremely simple system the Rhodes Scholars and Harvard Law Professors made complex.

Not only have we been convinced of such, we now demand it. We can’t stomach a “regular” person becoming a politician, because they aren’t smart enough, or savvy enough. Put in other words, they aren’t an aristocrat. We the unwashed and meek masses demand an aristocrat to lead us. The liberals have convinced a large portion of this country that politics is for a special group of people only, and the average stupid American should stay out, unless it is to vote (unless you are in the military), and then if we don’t vote the correct way, they re-affirm how stupid we are.

We are moving headstrong to a socialist dictatorship, coming full-circle once again. Old school monarchies are not much different than any other form of dictatorship excepting the passing of power to progeny (although North Korea is proving this statement false). The people were kept in check by an abusive police (TSA,DHS,ATF,FCC), laws were passed at the whim of a single man with no regards for the people, taxation was oppressive, and the aristocrats were often exempt from the system. Can anyone argue America is not already more than half-way there?

So yes, conservatives do want to “go back” to an old system of government, but it is wrong to say it is out-dated. In fact, I would argue if anyone wants true “change” in this world it is us conservatives. We desire the one form of government that was designed to cherish the person, not the people in power. All the other activists for change want to take us to a much older form of government, dictatorships, which have been around since man decided to live among one another.

If you want change you can believe in, rise up and demand that the real America please stand up. Enough of the phony aristocrats telling us the republic is dead and we need “to move forward”. Moving forward is just taking us through the back door of socialism.