THE NEW FASCISM

Fascism idolizes the state, socialists idolize "society" and communists idolize"humanity" as a whole.

What holds these ideologies together is much stronger than what divides them: they are all dedicated to the proposition that the rights and desires of individuals are properly subsumed by the needs of the whole. Individualism is selfishness, rights are collective, and the "good" of the whole is the true measure of society....

So today we are witnessing the rise of a new version of the same old collectivist ideal; instead of the State or Humanity being elevated above individualism, it's an idealized version of the environment or the "Earth." Call it Nature, call it Gaia, or even call it Climate, the ideologists of collectivism are just trying to sell us a new reason to subsume our individual liberty to a collectivist whole....

The "solution" to the climate change "crisis" is exactly the same "solution"that was proposed to solve the "population bomb" crisis in the 70's. It's the same solution that was proposed to solve the "crisis" of capitalist"exploitation." It's always the same collectivist solution, whatever the"crisis:" the relinquishing of individual rights in order to promote the greater good....

The people who warned you about the crisis are the very people who you need to follow in order to solve it.

In today's rebirth of fascism the leaders of tomorrow are the academic-media-political elite who run the major Universities, the government bureaucracies, and of course the all important media.

The elite is those who know better than you what is good for you.

-- David Strom, townhall.com, 3/1/07