Liberal Fascism

I'm gonna flog this book by Jonah Golberg a lot because "Liberal Fascism" is an amazing read and full of verifiable and historical facts (it is footnoted to heck and back).

The reason why I want everyone to read the book is that background knowledge makes Michelle Malkin's article about the violent anti-Prop 8 protestors and the hypocrisy of liberals when the call Conservatives "nazis" all the clearer.

As Michelle states, when conservatives are disappointed, say when we lose a Presidental election to a man of low experience, conservatives quietly cope. Not so the opponents of Prop 8. Michelle points out in her article that these vicious leftwingers are resorting to violence, blacklists (!), and extortion to achieve their goal. A goal that in the democracy they live in was defeated in a fair vote.

Examples? Here are just a few from Michelle's article:

"Instead of introspection and self-criticism, however, the sore losers who opposed Prop. 8 responded with threats, fists and blacklists.

That's right. Activists have published on the Internet an "Anti-Gay Blacklist" of Prop. 8 donors. If the tables were turned and Prop. 8 proponents created such an enemies list, everyone in Hollywood would be screaming "McCarthyism" faster than you could count to eight.

A Los Angeles restaurant whose manager made a small donation to the Prop. 8 campaign has been besieged nightly by hordes of protesters who have disrupted business, intimidated patrons and brought employees to tears. Out of fear for their jobs and their lives, workers at El Coyote Mexican Cafe pooled together $500 to pay off the bullies."

I want to make this clear, Nazism is also called National Socialism. It is socialism with insanely wrong patriotism and rascism. Regular socialism is more big government whether national or supranational. Socialism is the mid-point between progressivism (still bad) and totalitarian Communism (evil). In short, Nazi's were part of the Left not the Right. Calling a conservative a nazi reveals nothing more than your ignorance. This is detailed in Jonah's book.

Conservatives are well-behaved and polite as a general rule. When Liberals scream we are Nazi's, we just back out of the spittle-spray range and try to reason with them.

(In my opinion, this is a mistake. We should record the event and post it on the Internet as part of a Name and Shame campaign to get Liberals to take a deep breath and converse like adults.)

We are not the bad guys. We are the grown-ups.