Title: The F-Scale: How Fascist Are You? Source:
The F Scale URL Source:http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm Published:Jul 9, 2014 Author:Chuck Anesi Post Date:2014-07-09 20:56:37 by X-15 Keywords:None Views:835 Comments:53
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3.966666666666667 You are disciplined but tolerant; a true American.
#7. To: Horse, Jethro Tull, Dakmar, X-15, Lod, Cynicom (#6)
Horse, none of those three questions can directly measure an individual's degree of adherence to any form of fascism. The ADL might think so, but they have ulterior motivations. Some comments in order:
An issue much more broad than one's political faction of choice.
There are any number of reasons to want to stay out of war.
Another broad question with a variety of answers and motivations.
The founding fathers would have been accused of being fascists today, and in almost every history class, are treated like NAZIs. Yet they were in favor of limiting authority. The Marxists among us do not want government power to be limited.
More than ever we need an authority-limiting sort of patriot who is willing to unhand the implements of empire from those who have seized it illegitimately. But should this succeed, preferably via constitutional means, the constitution itself will need to be scrapped and reconstructed along the lines of the Swiss confederacy. Any Swiss canton may leave the confederacy at any time it wishes, for example.
The founding fathers would have been accused of being fascists today, and in almost every history class, are treated like NAZIs. Yet they were in favor of limiting authority.
I always ask left wing loons for one single example of Hitler calling for less government, that usually ends any discussion.
I always ask left wing loons for one single example of Hitler calling for less government
According to Pierce, gun control become less onerous in the 1938 legislation. His argument for this view: the German government did not fear its citizens.
Maybe your loons won't listen, though. Loons I know are divided into two camps: gun control is good and it was only fair that Weimar regulations were strict; and the others who want to believe that the German people were naturally decent and just but were forced to follow their leaders. In this second group, gun control is considered fascist, and must have been far stricter than Pierce argues that it actually was.
This is an interesting point to consider: what other liberties were restored for native Germans during the fascist regime? Certainly the economy was a marvel to the world during the global Great Depression. The threat of communist takeover of the government was greatly diminished between 1933 and 1944.
There must have been other benefits. Otherwise the fascists wouldn't have been so popular before the turning point with the Soviets at Stalingrad in early 1943.
If you watch the history shows, the Germans loved what Hitler was doing with the country. Their lifestyles improved and things were great, until they weren't.
If you watch the history shows, the Germans loved what Hitler was doing with the country. Their lifestyles improved and things were great, until they weren't.
Why didn't things stay better for the German people? Think about it:
American secret negotiations with the British promising endless materiel support and even American entry into the war, starting with our secret, unconstitutional Lend Lease program. The British never would have had the courage to ally with Poland without this. Ergo, no war in western Europe.
No war in the west: no invasion of France, no invasion of Norway. Inevitable Axis victory over Soviets. No invasion from the east.
No American involvement in the war, no sanctions on the Axis, ergo no Perl Harbor. No Bataan death march. No Korean war. No Vietnam. No scores and scores of millions of Chinese starved under Mao's command farming. British empire: intact; South Africa and Rhodesia: intact.
America's Lend-Lease to the Soviets. The eastern front was mobilized on American manufacturing, which weakened America's defenses in the Pacific! Stalin had a first strike strategy as outlined in Suvorov's Icebreaker and obvious to many military analysts. If it wasn't intended, the capability was there, which the German high command could not ignore.
The Soviet incursion from the east was enabled by American geostrategy: no rapacious mongrel encroachment into German territory would have ever happened. It rolled and flew on American-manufactured equipment, tank engines, planes, artillery, other materiel built with American steel ingots.
Indiscriminate carpet bombing of German cities in "retribution" for the Battle of Britain. These bombing raids used napalm-fitted incendiaries that created huge infernos melting the streets and caving in bomb shelters, roasting thousands and thousands of people alive.
In case you're not worried about German suffering due to FDR's interventions on behalf of the Soviets and the Chinese, More than 100,000 Americans died in Korea and Vietnam, after we had sponsored Marxists like Ho Chi Minh to fight the Japanese. Think of the millions of casualties on both sides in those wars.
Yes, the German people suffered. There were even well-articulated arguments for exterminating them after the war. They suffered great hunger and deprivations during the first few years.
Do you still blame the mistakes of the NAZI party for what happened to Germany? What about what had already happened to Germany during and after WWI? As many have speculated, Germany would have won WWI if it hadn't been for the Balfour declaration bringing America into that war (to end all wars) negotiated in secret out of sight of the American people?
Yes, we can partly blame ourselves for the fate of the German people after Poland, and even their suffering under the Verssails treaty reparations.
If you look closely today, we see the same things happening to America. Or do you think the central banks will ever be "reformed?" Will inflation never stop robbing us? Or do you think the wars for Israel will ever stop? Or do you think the constant drumbeats for war with Russia and China will ever end? Or do you think the borders will ever be sealed? Or do you think the American education and film industry will ever remember again how we were founded, and how important our first revolution was?
The world wars took our freedom, what was left of it, and destroyed Europe and led to the deaths of some 100 million people in Asia. Think about it the next time Alex Jones tells us that we're under the rule of fascists.