Jarhead
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No. It's just another take on Goldbergs book, Liberal Fascism, which has been totally debunk as junk.
"Goldberg's reasoning has progressed from unconvincing to incoherent. Modern liberalism, he argues, is linked to Nazism because both contain a cult of the organic (Hitler was a vegetarian) and both embrace sexual freedom (Himmler ordered his men "to father as many children as possible without marrying" in order to achieve the Aryan ideal). Eventually, Goldberg backs himself into asserting, in effect, that any government that does more than prevent abortions and provide for the common defense is inherently fascist. Granted, he gives a wide berth to the common defense. In a token criticism of President George W. Bush, Goldberg cites as evidence of fascist influence not the de facto suspension of habeas corpus and refusal to follow the Geneva Conventions, which go unmentioned, but rather Bush's extension of Medicare to cover prescription drugs.
So, what's more fascist, liberalism or conservatism? It's a moronic question. The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.
Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism. - Slate Magazine
The government telling you that you MUST purchase something the day you are born and continue to pay for it until the die you die is a step in that diorection...ESPECIALLY since the government (or members of it) admittedly exempted itself from the same law.