Uh, I'm with you insofar as we are talking about the disastrous results of the so-called War on Drugs, which, among other things, has squander billions in treasure for nothing, when all the while the government's only duty to the people was to shut that friggin' border down! But now with this talk of plutocracy in the face of the depredations that is the history of liberal/progressive fascism as the pathway toward a communist state, i.e., in the minds of the New Deal Marxist of FDR's administration and their ideological offspring, you've gone off the rails and taken a left turn into la-la land. Limited government, the preservation of private property and inalienable human rights are not the passé concerns of agrarian societies, but the bulwark against the tyranny of overweening governments.
I am truly surprised that someone with your obvious intelligence actually believes the FDR Administration was oriented to Marxism and there is even the slightest possibility that the United States could adopt a communist system.
No need to be surprised. You misread my post. Perhaps this is due to your unfamiliarity with the history of the Progressive era of national socialism in America (roughly 1890 to 1940) and the predominant political persuasion of those charged with the responsibility of implementing the New Deal policies in FDR's administration. Hence, the caveat: "liberal/progressive fascism as the pathway toward a communist state, i.e.,
in the minds of the New Deal Marxist of FDR's administration and their ideological offspring."
The irony here is that
they believed in the "possibility that the United States could adopt a communist system", and the all grown up Marxist radicals of the 60's, the offspring of the New Deal Marxists of FDR's administration, still believe in that possibility and are doing everything they can to achieve it, particularly in the government schools and, under Obama, in the economy by way of crony capitalism, which is essentially the same transitional, corporatist stratagem of the liberal fascists of the Progressive Era, that is to say, the stratagem of those who were of the Marxist persuasion. Most of the progressives of that era, like Wilson and FDR, were national socialists proper, admirers of Euro-fascism. But, of course, both fascism and communism are predicated on the very same ontological justification: the Hegelian historical dialectic.
I on the other hand know better, after all, the stateless society is a bedtime story for unruly children and the sophomoric dreamers of leftist academia, and the totalitarian reality would never fly here . . . though the chaos of economic ruin is a real possibility. In other words, that doesn't mean that these leftists haven't wreaked havoc on America over the years with more to come.
By the way, that's your plutocracy: the collaborative centralization of power and the surplus value of production in the hands of the political and corporate elites of big government at the detriment of small business and the working class. That's not capitalism proper. That's not the supply-side economics of laissez-faire. That's not Reaganomics. That's not the stuff of the classical liberalism of this nation's founding. You've been duped.
History repeats itself.
This is essentially the same shoeshine that was trumpeted by the liberal fascists of the Progressive Era: the supposedly chaotic dynamics of the laissez-faire socioeconomic model was passé, fine for the agrarian age, but not for the complex organizational challenges of the industrial age and the emerging technological age. The rugged individualism of classical liberalism was dead. The corporative collectivism of national socialism was the way to go!
WWII. The Holocaust. The devastation of Europe. More than 60 million dead.
The progressives of the 1920's and 30's dropped the label
liberal fascism like a hot potato and distanced themselves from the old themes and rhetoric of national socialism. Mussolini, for example, wasn't such a great leader after all. And then a funny thing happened, beginning in the 60's, the collectivists of cultural Marxism began to use the label
fascist as a weapon . . . against classical liberals of all people . . . to bully and silence.
Today's progressives go on about the supposed scarcity of resources, the global village, economic disparity, false consciousness, the evils of consumerism. . . . Same ol' collectivist crap, albeit, now pronouncedly hailing from the Marxist side of the Hegelian dialectic.
Can I assume you believe the union movement was a bad thing and the Country is better off without unions? And do you believe reasonably equitable controls over the distribution of a nation's wealth resources is categorical communism?
(1) I have no problem with unionized labor in the private sector, as long as the government keeps it nose out of the bargaining process between the respective parties of the factors of production, but the unionization of government employees is an abomination. (2) There are no such things as "reasonably equitable controls over the distribution of a nation's" surplus value, except for the forces of the free market. Governmental wealth redistribution is theft prefaced on the zero-sum-game myth of Marxism.
Do you believe a $20 million limit imposed on the accumulation of personal assets is a communist policy -- even if the capitalist system remains intact?
How could a capitalist system remain intact with an artificially imposed limit "on the accumulation of personal assets"? Your describing a command economy. Marxism 101. The results would be disastrous for all. Such a thing would wipe out the middleclass, reduce the vast majority of the people to beggars, but I suspect you don't know why that would happen.
And do you believe Ronald Reagan was good for America?
For the most part, yes.