Democrats are still trying to call this the republican war on women.
That alone might hurt them.
That's Right, ONLY CON$erviNAZIs can declare wars, War on Christmas, War on The Family, War on The Constitution, War on Capitalism, War on Catholics, War on Liberty, War on Oil, and on and on and on.
What an interesting point, BeetsAndSpinach!
See, that's why I keep you around!
1. The
American progressive thought overlaps with fascism in that it is an attempt to Europeanize America, so as to lead it to utopian ends. But unlike European brands, it was moderated by American traditions such as Jeffersonian individualism, lack of homogeneity and elements of classical liberalism.
Before WW II, where the term fascism was smeared by the actions of Nazi fascism, many
progressive leaders proudly proclaimed thralldom with it, and with its major proponents, such as Mussolini. After, they had to not only distance themselves from it, but now proclaim that fascism was right-wing.
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Classical_Liberalism_vs_Modern_Liberal_Conservatism.pdf
2. American
Progressives saw war as a way to reorganize America.
a. German intellectuals had pioneered the idea that
war was the source of moral values.
b. Most
American intellectuals were influenced by the same doctrines and philosophies. Dewey wrote of the social possibilities of war. In The New Republic he ridiculed pacifists who couldnt recognize the immense impetus to reorganization afforded by this war. Wilson: I am an advocate of peace, but there are some splendid things that come to a nation through the discipline of war.
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c.
Dewey was thrilled that the war might force Americans to give up much of our economic freedom
We shall have to lay by much of our good-natured individualism and march in step. War would constrain the individualistic tradition and convince Americans of the supremacy of public need over private possessions. David Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society, p. 50.
3.
The progressive intellectuals of the first part of the twentieth century initially welcomed war as a source of social cohesion and as a way of overcoming what they saw as the pernicious individualism of American life. But going from one extreme to the other, these disillusioned Wilsonians converted to pacifism and cosmopolitanism in the interwar period.
They heaped invective on anyone who was sensitive to the dangers presented by Adolf Hitler. They found enemies in war and arms races in the abstract, not specific regimes committed to the destruction of a liberal international order. Patriotism and national honor became suspect for many intellectuals long afterward.
An Independent Mind by Daniel J. Mahoney, City Journal 18 June 2010
4. In the essay The Moral Equivalent of War by William James, James considered one of the classic problems of politics: how to sustain political unity and civic virtue in the absence of war or a credible threat. The standard solution for the problem of sustaining political unity and civic virtue has been either war or a credible external or internal threat, anticipating the use by political leaders of imagined internal or external threats to achieve and maintain their power and the political unity that would discourage opposition to them. The essay may be
origin of the idea of organized national service, to the depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps, to the Peace Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps.
Jon Roland: Introduction to The Moral Equivalent of War
b. The use of the idea if not the reality of
war may be seen currently in liberalisms use of the war on cancer, the war on drugs, the War on Poverty, and the exhortation to fight any problem as the moral equivalent of war.
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