Friday, April 03, 2009

From Capitalism to Socialism to Fascism

I caught a snippet of Glenn Beck's radio program Thursday. Socialism? Glenn says we are already there. Fascism? Glenn says we are headed there "smiley face fascism." He reminded his listeners that Benito Mussolini was extremely popular both in America and in Italy, before he joined forces with Adolf Hitler, and they took their countries from socialism to fascism.

I have checked out Jonah Goldberg's book Liberal Fascism. It appears to be time to move that one up to the top of my reading list.

Glenn Beck was talking about the impending financial collapse long before it happened. Though I wish he would cut down on his use of sarcasm, I have to give him credit for being one of the few pundits to predict accurately the economic calamities that have taken place.

1 comment:

Terri Wagner said...

I like Glenn too and though his delivery may be a bit off for my generation, he fits in perfect with the Jon Stewart generation. Thank goodness there is finally one on our side.