tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078815.post6867061313110602582..comments2023-09-25T21:22:28.439-04:00Comments on Cup Of Joe Powell: Dr. Helen, Glenn Reynolds and Jonah Goldberg in Fantasy LandJoe Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04326800254526438870noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078815.post-35939420851126669422008-01-01T13:09:00.000-05:002008-01-01T13:09:00.000-05:00SB -more than once I have tried to post some thoug...SB -<BR/><BR/>more than once I have tried to post some thoughts on the specious and deceptive reasonings of Neo-Cons and their obsessions with thought/language control. Sadly, their message is constantly swathed in dubious information. So I figure if they are going to constantly repeat nonsense, they need to be called on it just as repeatedly.Joe Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04326800254526438870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078815.post-64299818261413144562007-12-31T11:37:00.000-05:002007-12-31T11:37:00.000-05:00The Sunday Book Review carried a review this week...The Sunday Book Review carried a review <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html?ref=review" REL="nofollow">this weekend.</A> It's pretty good. Mostly Goldberg is taken to task for miopically looking only at Democrats and completely ignoring anything any Republican president ever did, from Bush's "Mission Accomplished" air craft carrier landing going back to the 1920s and "the largest state-sponsored social experiment in the nation’s history — Prohibition — and it lasted through three Republican administrations before Franklin Roosevelt ended it in 1933."<BR/><BR/>Basically Goldberg is and always has been a partisan hack. This drivel will end up in the 99-cent bin along with Ann Coulter's oeuvre. Really, the only proof one needs that conservatism is intellectually bankrupt is to look at the movement's chief spokes-bots, whose only message seems to be "Liberals Bad, Conservatives Good."<BR/><BR/>Pfft.Litzz11@yahoo.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08843479112124843471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078815.post-43440415614134780892007-12-29T17:39:00.000-05:002007-12-29T17:39:00.000-05:00Mussolini said; "the fascist conception of life st...Mussolini said;<BR/> "the fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal will of man as a historic entity.... The fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.... Fascism is therefore opposed to that form of democracy which equates a nation to the majority, lowering it to the level of the largest number.<BR/><BR/>Or; "...a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond reach of traditional solutions; 2. belief one’s group is the victim, justifying any action without legal or moral limits; 3. need for authority by a natural leader above the law, relying on the superiority of his instincts; 4. right of the chosen people to dominate others without legal or moral restraint; 5. fear of foreign `contamination."<BR/><BR/>Number three echoes Shrubs "gut instinct" he said he made decisions by.<BR/><BR/>Labeling " Liberals" Fascists is merely switching slurs: A generation ago, Liberals were Communist sympathisers, eager to undermine the US, with rock and roll, free love, peace and cannibis. No such movement existed in the Communist block or course but what did reality have to do with it.<BR/><BR/>Yea, Liberals ore Conservationist, Anti-monoply and like the idea women vote, but then so did Teddy Roosevelt. They are sometimes stupid but in the end the idea of a nation where no body crowds no body but no body goes it alone isn't a totalitarian system.<BR/><BR/>This rebranding of Liberals is a mark of desperation by the wingnuts and oddly coincides with the increased discussion of how much BushCo resemebles a totalitarian state. It smacks of the same detachment from reality as their discussions of how "24" a Fox TV series reflects our War on Terrorism<BR/><BR/>But Goldberg gets the last laugh: how many people get paid for defecating onto paper for big money.<BR/><BR/>Next they will be pointing out the hyprocrisy of Liberals <BR/>when they want to fund Special Educatiion but object to a retard being PresidentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078815.post-32842151981404964252007-12-29T15:28:00.000-05:002007-12-29T15:28:00.000-05:00signs on the left and the right, Anonymous.i was n...signs on the left and the right, Anonymous.<BR/><BR/>i was not reviewing the book here, just my thoughts on what is evident in the podcast.<BR/><BR/>couldn't any "-ism" could be lumped into a totalitarian system given enough fanatic impulses?Joe Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04326800254526438870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078815.post-91511331038318098072007-12-29T15:04:00.000-05:002007-12-29T15:04:00.000-05:00I do see many signs of fascism on the left. I beli...I do see many signs of fascism on the left. I believe environmentalism, for instance, is a totalitarian belief system. I suggest you at least read the book before you post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078815.post-25264915029493335202007-12-29T14:58:00.000-05:002007-12-29T14:58:00.000-05:00I gave up on Dr. Helen early on after reading her ...I gave up on Dr. Helen early on after reading her blog for several weeks. Not a very compassionate psychologist, IMO. I can't go listen to the interview. I have no doubt as to your analysis being accurate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com