It is possible as of this writing that Barack Obama will become the first true fascist leader in America. An Obama regime looks like it would differ from most historical forms in that it would be internationalist fascism rather than nationalist fascism. Also, Obama is a leftist, but he is not a very principled or consistent leftist. It would be more accurate to say that he is a fascist with a leftist bent.
Of course, Obama’s job approval rating among likely voters is 56% and falling, and is actually lower than at this same point in Bush’s first term. In fact, Clinton’s approval rating never fell below 60% for a single day during his second administration. Therefore, the fascist ambitions of the Obama administration seem unlikely to be realized anytime soon.
Obama would need the economic crisis to be even worse, or he would need some kind of other crisis to complete the leap to fascism under a single leader. This reminds me that his chief of staff, Rohm Emmanuel, said on Nov. 17th, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste”.
On the other hand, we are so close to complete fascism now that 8 years of gradual movement in that direction may be sufficient to set the stage for a final crisis that would give Obama a third term, which would never end. I have already foreseen this possibility when I wrote Obama’s Third Inaugural Address several weeks ago.
Fascism in Their Own Words
Fascism was summarized by Mario Palmieri in “The Philosophy of Fascism”, 1936:
“Economic initiative cannot be left to the arbitrary decisions of private individual interest. Open competition, if not wisely directed and restricted, actually destroys wealth instead of creating it. … The proper function of the State in the Fascist system is that of supervising, regulating, and arbitrating the relationships of capital and labor, employers and employees, individuals and associations, private interests and national interests … More important than the production of wealth is its right distribution. Distribution which must benefit in the best possible way all the classes of the nation, hence, the nation itself. Private wealth belongs not only to the individual, but, in a symbolic sense, to the State as well.”
I used to think that regulation was the new form of socialism, but then I read this quote, and now I see that the Democrats are not really socialists – but are fascists. Then again, Nazi is short for National Socialists. Perhaps the Nazi’s saw fascism as a new kind of socialism. Therefore, we could accurately refer to many Democratic leaders as socialists or as fascists
