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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Obama Called Fascist by Lots of People This Week... could he be fascist?

So this week conservative radio host Mark Levin said that the executive orders the President Obama proposed were “fascistic”, and the CEO of Whole Foods Market said President Obama's healthcare law is more like "fascism" than "socialism". That's two totally separate individuals, both of them describing different policies that President Obama is pushing as fascism. So is Obama a fascist?

Last year in my post Oppose Fascism, Oppose Obama? I wrote:
Throughout President Obama's administration, I have frequently suggested that he is in fact a fascist... the reason why I have felt (have always felt since I first began to spend time learning about President Obama back in 2008) is because the policies which he pushes for are in fact fascist policies.

On October 13, 2008 I wrote in Wikipedia Description of Fascist Sounds Like Someone I Know that:
... "Fascism is primarily concerned with perceived problems associated with cultural, economic, political, and social decline or decadence, and seeks to solve such problems by achieving a historic national rebirth, many times by promoting cultish ideas of unity and purity."...

...Apparently fascism also promotes political violence against opponents (check), welfare (check), is fiercely anti-religion (check), and promotes cults of personality (check)...
...the evidence over the last 4 years would have clearly demonstrated that the policies that promoted were demonstrably not fascist. But this hasn’t been the case, and as the years have gone on, it has become even more clear through Obama's policies and statements that the economic/political theory that he is pushing for is fascism...
President Obama feels that the gun culture in America is backward and old-fashioned, and is attempting to get rid of that relic of history called the 2nd Amendment by having a national conversation that might spark a historic rebirth and new ideas regarding gun ownership. Surrounding himself with young children who are used as props, he speaks of finding unity on this issue behind him, and that our nation can become a better nation if we follow his ideas.

Sure sounds like fascism to me. Mark Levin might be right in characterizing Obama's stances on gun control as fascistic.

As far as Obamacare goes, let's read what CEO of Whole Foods John Mackeyy said of the Affordable Care Act:
"Socialism is where the government owns the means of production. In fascism, the government doesn't own the means of production, but they do control it, and that's what's happening with our healthcare programs and these reforms."
This man knows- his company is dealing with the government over these new reforms and programs, and his characterization of them is "fascist".

If it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, waddles like a duck... maybe Obama is a fascist.