Stopping Tyranny, Fighting Fascism

(thoughts inspired from reading Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism

I was glad to read Goldberg paying some compliments to Saul Alinsky, who trained countless community organizers (and whose trainees trained Barack Obama in Chicago). His most famous trainee was Cesar Chavez.

Goldberg shows that many aspects of our country are already fascistic. It takes people like Alinsky to wake people up and change things. Alinsky called the Great Society "a prize piece of political pornography." Alinsky had contempt for both the statism of elite liberals and the radically chic New Leftists, who went around spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevera.

Although I don't remember any of the conversation, I did meet Mr Alinsky once in Kansas City. After spending several hours with him, I gave him a ride back to his hotel. I shared his contempt for LBJ and the radically chic New Leftists. Although I was young, I was also completely unimpressed with the people who mobilized young people to protest against the war in Viet Nam.

I had been in the ROTC program in college. Unbeknownst to me my mother contacted our pediatrician and asked him to write a letter to the draft board just before I graduated, telling them of the allergies I suffered as a child (and still do). The draft board reclassified me as 4F. I was disappointed. It was my mom's last effort to protect (and control) me, even though I was hundreds of miles away at college.

Americans are now beginning to express their outrage at the flagrant violations of the principles of limited government upon which our country was founded. The leftists have now taken over the powerful, cash-flush Department of Homeland Security, and, instead of fighting terrorists, they will probably try to focus its work on quelling the attempts to organize people against the tyranny of the smiley-faced fascists who are running things in America.