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P 147 "that little car of his [Henry Ford's] had done more than anything else to destroy class differences." - Adolph Hitler
Mussolini and Hitler also felt that they were doing things along similar lines to FDR. Indeed, they celebrated the New Deal as a kindred effort. The German press was particularly lavish in its praise for FDR. [FDR adopted "Nationalist Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies."
"The Public Weal Transcends the Interest of the Individual." [The German state philosophy under Adolph Hitler, who congratulated FDR for being in accord with himself.]
P 158 Indeed, it seems impossible to deny that the New Deal was objectively fascistic. Under the New Deal, governmental goons smashed down doors to impose domestic policies. G-Men were treated like demigods, even as they spied on dissidents.
FDR secretly taped his conversations, used the postal service to punish his enemies, lied repeatedly to maneuver the United States into war, and undermined Congress's war-making powers at several turns.
In 1942 he flatly told congress that if it didn't do what he wanted, he'd do it anyway.
In 1936 Roosevelt told Congress, "We have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a people's government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people. " As Al Smith noted, the upshot of this statement is that Roosevelt didn't mind an authoritarian government, so long as representatives of "the people" - that is, liberals - ran the government. But if anybody "we" dislike gets control of the government, it would constitute tyranny.
[Pretty much sums up liberalism today.]
Mussolini and Hitler also felt that they were doing things along similar lines to FDR. Indeed, they celebrated the New Deal as a kindred effort. The German press was particularly lavish in its praise for FDR. [FDR adopted "Nationalist Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies."
"The Public Weal Transcends the Interest of the Individual." [The German state philosophy under Adolph Hitler, who congratulated FDR for being in accord with himself.]
P 158 Indeed, it seems impossible to deny that the New Deal was objectively fascistic. Under the New Deal, governmental goons smashed down doors to impose domestic policies. G-Men were treated like demigods, even as they spied on dissidents.
FDR secretly taped his conversations, used the postal service to punish his enemies, lied repeatedly to maneuver the United States into war, and undermined Congress's war-making powers at several turns.
In 1942 he flatly told congress that if it didn't do what he wanted, he'd do it anyway.
In 1936 Roosevelt told Congress, "We have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a people's government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people. " As Al Smith noted, the upshot of this statement is that Roosevelt didn't mind an authoritarian government, so long as representatives of "the people" - that is, liberals - ran the government. But if anybody "we" dislike gets control of the government, it would constitute tyranny.
[Pretty much sums up liberalism today.]
Stickied this, and note the second quiz mentioned here: 
