"Regulating the flies"

(more thoughts inspired from JonahGoldberg's Liberal Fascism)

Goldberg shows how liberal fascists use big business to implement their social agenda. The bigger the business the better. "What's easier, strapping five thousand cats to a wagon or a couple of giant oxen?" He also challenges the myth that big businesses are right wing: "there's virtually no major issue in the culture wars - from abortion to gay marriage to affirmative action - where big business has played a major role on the American right, while there are dozens of examples of corporations supporting the liberal side."

John McCain perfectly symbolizes this catch-22 of modern liberalism. He despises the corrupting effect of "big money" in politics, but he is also a major advocate of increased government regulation of business. He has concluded that he should try to regulate political speech, which is like "decrying the size of the garbage dump and deciding the best thing to do is regulate the flies." And, of course, McCain's regulations come in at exactly the moment when people might be influenced, near Election Day. The New York Times and other far left big media conglomerates get to avoid government censorship, because they promote their liberal causes all during the year, not just at election time, when McCain's anti-free speech regulations go into effect.

This is how liberal fascism works; "contrary voices are regulated, barred, banned when possible, mocked and marginalized when not. Progressive voices are encouraged, lionized, amplified - in the name of "diversity" or "liberation" or "unity," and, most of all, "progress." "Just because something is done in the name of diversity doesn't make it un-fascist. It just makes it a nicer form of fascism."