Medium: The Garbage Can of the Progressive Fascist
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I just read one of the most honest pieces of self-indictment ever written at Medium.com. I just read one of the scariest pieces of self-indictment at Medium.com. These two articles were one and the same and they define the complete arrogance of the Progressive movement; a movement which has now turned full-blown Fascist.
In this article, titled Intolerant Liberals by Tucker FitzGerald (love the capitalized ‘G’ in Fitzgerald, it’s so painfully hip) he professes to explain to everyone that people who identify as Conservatives are completely misreading Progressives. He states clearly that, “We have no interest in everyone getting treated the same. We have no interest in giving all ideas equal airtime. We have no interest in ‘tolerating’ all beliefs.”
Indeed, Mr. Fitzgerald – with a capital ‘G’ – has it right when he says Conservatives have Progressives pegged incorrectly. Progressives aren’t “progressive” at all. They are Fascists.
In speaking from his pedestal of arrogance, he posits an example of “true equality” in saying that the election of a female President of the United States would mean nothing but a drop in the bucket. In Fitzgerald’s eye (and evidently those of his Fascist brethren, as well) he believes true equality can only happen in the instance of the presidency after 45 women are elected, consecutively, to the office.
Evidently, Mr. Fitzgerald’s testicles reside in the bottom of his girlfriend’s woMan-wallet.
Fitzgerald goes on to rationalize the Left’s anti-Trump violence by stating:
“…Because all political decisions aren’t equally right. Aren’t equally moral. Aren’t equally recognizing of human dignity and justice and freedom. Because liberals recognize that there are wrong and right decisions, because they parse good and evil, contrary to what my church taught me about them.
“Because democracy isn’t the only value we hold. We don’t accept the 51% enslaving the 49% by popular vote. We believe in human rights. We believe in the Bill of Rights. Because we balance the will of the people with the sanctity of each individual life. And no, your right to not sell flowers doesn’t outweigh someone else’s right to get married. Because not all rights are equal.”
Not all rights are equal. Did you get that? Some people’s rights, depending on their circumstances, are not as sacrosanct as others. So:
- My right to free speech (which is actually my right to redress my government with political free speech) is not as sacrosanct as a Fascist’s “right” to expunge “hate speech” from college campuses.
- My right to freedom of religion (which means my protected right to practice my religion openly and without coercion) is not as sacrosanct as an atheist’s right to expunge all religion from the public square.
- My right to due process (which means my right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty) is not as sacrosanct as a Fascist’s right to try me in a court of public opinion; depriving me of my pursuit of happiness.
Mr. Fascist Fitzgerald – with the oh-so-hip capital ‘G’, aside from misidentifying our system of government as a “democracy (we are a Constitutional Republic), is declaring that the rights of the chosen ones; the rights of the oligarchic elite; the rights of the politically correct, blow-hard, American-hating, identity-challenged are more important than the rights of the overwhelming number of Americans who believe rights are equal to all and blind justice in due process is a protection of those rights.
The advent of political correctness started the assault on the sanctity of each person’s individual rights and freedoms. Political correctness serves as a gateway to a shadow set of laws that degrade and demean the Bill of Rights and our constitutionally protected freedoms.
Yes, I have the right to own a firearm (unless I live in Chicago where only criminals have guns) but it can’t be any number of weapons and in many cases, it cannot be accessible to defend myself. Don’t get me started on the limitations currently being placed on ammunition, which makes many firearms expensive paperweights.
Yes, I have a right to free speech but as a conservative, I can’t exercise it on a college campus or in the mainstream media without being shouted down and/or castigated. “Hate speech” is the socially acceptable charge against anyone not towing the Fascist line.
Yes, I have a right to freedom of religion, because I am not from an anointed group (Islamists comes to mind) I am not allowed to pray in public buildings or schools. If I worshipped Allah I can point East, get on my knees and obstruct traffic in downtown Detroit, should I choose, and you would be a “hater” to complain.
Yes, I have a right to due process and protection from illegal search and seizure but only until someone leaks private, court-sealed, or classified information to an agendized media. Then the smear gates open and there is nothing I can do about it. I am at the mercy of Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon.
The list goes on and on.
When we carve out exceptions to undeniable equal rights for all we create special classes of people and that means we elevate some while diminishing others. The German people allowed that to happen under Hitler, as did the Russian people under Stalin, the Venezuelan people under Chavez, and many more peoples and despots. That is not equal opportunity or equal rights. It’s Oligarchical Fascism where the elite chose the winners and the losers; facilitating opportunity for some while denying it outright for others.
Ladies and gentlemen, Progressivism and graduated to Fascism, and it has a great foothold in the mainstream society and government in the United States of America. Our country is dying…and the Fitzgeralds – with a capital ‘G’ – are celebrating about it.
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“....Fitzgerald goes on to rationalize the Left’s anti-Trump violence by stating:
“…Because all political decisions aren’t equally right. Aren’t equally moral. Aren’t equally recognizing of human dignity and justice and freedom. Because liberals recognize that there are wrong and right decisions, because they parse good and evil, contrary to what my church taught me about them.
“Because democracy isn’t the only value we hold. We don’t accept the 51% enslaving the 49% by popular vote. We believe in human rights. We believe in the Bill of Rights. Because we balance the will of the people with the sanctity of each individual life. And no, your right to not sell flowers doesn’t outweigh someone else’s right to get married. Because not all rights are equal.”......”
ummm, does this sentence mean that Progressives are then in favor of keeping the Electoral College the way it is?
I was wondering about that. The sad thing is that the internet rag that this FitzGerald article is listed as center left. Talk of media bias.
How is this considered to be a reasonable site to seed from? Their partisan claims are borderline incoherent.
It's not. It is complete trash. Yet sadly it does not fall into the extreme category.
The proponents of that site won’t be satisfied until they rate every conservative site as questionable or hate and every Christian site as pseudoscience or hate. Then you can have your echo chamber.
You can keep banging that drum yet it remains untrue.
There are Liberals sites not allowed as well.
Though that does not fit into the persecution narrative.
That's because the vast majority of "Christian science" is not science at all...it's the complete absence of science..
The bigot that runs that place puts 11 conservative sites in the questionable source category for every 1liberal site they put in that category. That’s why that site was chosen for use here.
Did you ever consider that it's not everyone else that is wrong, and it's YOU?
Proof of that statement?
Even if true, did it ever occur to you that one side puts out more fake news than the other?
I have come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter.
Even when proof is shown that he is wrong, he comes back the next day saying the same thing.
Now that is hilarious. Thank you for the laugh this morning.
TDS alone has resulted in more fake news than conservative sites will ever be able to produce; but the leftist media is still spinning it as fast as they can.
Uh huh, and your proof is shinning through.
I’ve had the documentation of that fact as my avatar in the past. It also accurately referred to those that use it as being pro censorship internet sites.
If you think I can read an avatar, you are sorely mistaken.
Well i'm an uncle thats an anti
what ever it is you might be sellin.
Keep America Great, huh.
The Bullship you're trying to sail past Us All blows
up and by, like a smokey signal, but not hard enuff to properly propel your vlasic classic vessel du jour of as message , that i'm quite shore, is mored, in waters too shallow, for one to deny the pickle, that preserves, points condensed, to alleviate the sprawl you'll call a deviated reality, that you found in the heart of an urban dictionary, beaten, to the chopped up broken brake drum, that can't stop, cause it sticks
out like a perfectly fine thumb, that i nose my thumb at, cause watt else would i nose, in spite of the court appointed 2 litre Sprite , that had Spirit, as do most things, placed on sale of a vessel
sold
4 sailing.
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Well then, why do you feel your beliefs are being squelched out ?
Could it be, your "religion", whatever it may be, as i'm unfamiliar with
Keep America Great, and your thoughts, but from the few ive painted red, not really interested in making you any more colorful, as one might suspect, from the black and white, text and screen, stated disrespectfully,as i prefer colored screens, to sit up front and drive the bus, fare or knot, tied to extremist views are somes view finders, keepers of clothesed minds all lined up,
in a line up
attempting to pin, the blame on all things other than the known source, so, divine, that difficult to join, but easy to coin, change that will make you have less cents, as fabric isn't always fabricated to dry the scratched albums torn from picture windows ripped from claws that tear, a tear, from , cheeks ripped from the rear, admirably, while crying about the soft tears, scratched down my back, as eye could not see facing
the subject at hand, empty handed.
What is it you exactly are attempting to achieve
by posting defenses for offensives,
do tell, what it is you do tell .
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And all of the so called fact checkers out there are infected with the very same TDS that the lamestream media has. They are exactly as Mika on MSNBC said about others lately.
It was once the photo for a seeded article about fake fact checkers of which MBFC was the 2nd worst here and is still a group avatar if I remember right. Of course they retaliated for that article by making its source now questionable just a few days ago.
the "victim cards" in the deck never end, always a victim for something be it religion or political views or something, some people are just never happy until the rest of the world is exactly viewed and guided by/under/through their political and/or religious lens.
Helsinki. Nothing more to say.
Truth is never biased.
Right wing is...…………….dangerous.
I would have said full of projection.
Left wing is...........fascism.
Fascism ( / ˈ f æ ʃ ɪ z əm / ) is a form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism , [1] [2] [3] [4] characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy, [5] which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. [6] The first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I before it spread to other European countries . [6] Opposed to liberalism , Marxism and anarchism , fascism is placed on the far-right within the traditional left–right spectrum . [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Fascists saw World War I as a revolution that brought massive changes to the nature of war, society, the state and technology. The advent of total war and the total mass mobilization of society had broken down the distinction between civilians and combatants. A "military citizenship" arose in which all citizens were involved with the military in some manner during the war. [12] [13] The war had resulted in the rise of a powerful state capable of mobilizing millions of people to serve on the front lines and providing economic production and logistics to support them, as well as having unprecedented authority to intervene in the lives of citizens. [12] [13]
Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete and they regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties. [14] Such a state is led by a strong leader—such as a dictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party—to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society. [14] Fascism rejects assertions that violence is automatically negative in nature and views political violence, war and imperialism as means that can achieve national rejuvenation. [15] [16] [17] [18] Fascists advocate a mixed economy , with the principal goal of achieving autarky (national economic self-sufficiency) through protectionist and interventionist economic policies. [19]
Since the end of World War II in 1945, few parties have openly described themselves as fascist and the term is instead now usually used pejoratively by political opponents. The descriptions neo-fascist or post-fascist are sometimes applied more formally to describe parties of the far-right with ideologies similar to, or rooted in, 20th-century fascist movements. [6] [20]
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Fascism is right wing...nice try though.
Actually it is not, never was, and never will be. The national socialists are all your sides. Progressive fascists.
Opposed to liberalism, Marxism and anarchism, fascism is placed on the far-right within the traditional left–right spectrum.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
Sorry, wrong again HA.
Wrong as usual. What you cite is the revisionism of leftist historians to ignore history and facts
Fascism centers around centralizing power in one location (Berlin, Moscow, Rome, or Washington DC).
Fascism centers around allowing business and Banking as long as the Fascist Govt can control how business and banking operate- just as Washington does (crony capitalism)
Fascism centers around populist redistribution of wealth to gain support of the masses- just as Washington does
Fascism centers around charismatic leaders who are able to bend the masses towards their support- just as FDR, LBJ, and Obama have done.
Fascism has always been a leftist ideology. Fascists separated themselves from the Communists over Statism.
Marx wrote that socialism should be the transition from capitalism to communism. Communism is ultimately according to marx a form of anarchy (absence of government) where the workers are an entity unto themselves and no government is needed.
The Fascists agreed with much of Marx's views on socialism but being Statists, believed that they could instead control capitalism to support a dominant central government that redistributed the wealth which in turn would continue to give them the populist support to rule.
Fascism and the American Left
In 1919, Alceste De Ambris and Futurist movement leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti created The Manifesto of the Italian Fasci of Combat (a.k.a. the Fascist Manifesto ). [68] The Manifesto was presented on June 6, 1919 in the Fascist newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia . The Manifesto supported the creation of universal suffrage for both men and women (the latter being realized only partly in late 1925, with all opposition parties banned or disbanded [69] ); proportional representation on a regional basis; government representation through a corporatist system of "National Councils" of experts, selected from professionals and tradespeople, elected to represent and hold legislative power over their respective areas, including labour, industry, transportation, public health, communications, etc.; and the abolition of the Italian Senate . [70] The Manifesto supported the creation of an eight-hour work day for all workers, a minimum wage , worker representation in industrial management, equal confidence in labour unions as in industrial executives and public servants, reorganization of the transportation sector, revision of the draft law on invalidity insurance, reduction of the retirement age from 65 to 55, a strong progressive tax on capital, confiscation of the property of religious institutions and abolishment of bishoprics, and revision of military contracts to allow the government to seize 85% of their[ who? ] profits. [71] It also called for the creation of a short-service national militia to serve defensive duties, nationalization of the armaments industry, and a foreign policy designed to be peaceful but also competitive. [72]
Socialism and Fascism: A Political-Economic Spectrum Analysis | Walter Block
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism is Totalitarian | George Reisman
Stalinism was Fascism, not Communism
Hitler himself on the matter:
"There is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communists always will."
"Of what importance is all that, if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape? Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the Party, is supreme over them regardless of whether they are owners or workers. All that is unessential; our socialism goes far deeper. It establishes a relationship of the individual to the State, the national community. Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings."
Ref. from Hermann Rauschning in Hitler Speaks , London, T. Butterworth, 1940
Mussolini wrote: "To Fascism the world is not this material world, as it appears on the surface, where Man is an individual separated from all others and left to himself.... Fascism affirms the State as the true reality of the individual."
Goebbels on Nazism =Socialism
We are socialists because we see in socialism , that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.
Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the working class. It promotes the rise of the fourth class and its incorporation in the political organism of our Fatherland, and is inextricably bound to breaking the present slavery and regaining German freedom. Socialism, therefore, is not merely a matter of the oppressed class, but a matter for everyone, for freeing the German people from slavery is the goal of contemporary policy. Socialism gains its true form only through a total fighting brotherhood with the forward-striving energies of a newly awakened nationalism. Without nationalism it is nothing, a phantom, a mere theory, a castle in the sky, a book. With it it is everything, the future, freedom, the fatherland!
The sin of liberal thinking was to overlook socialism’s nation-building strengths, thereby allowing its energies to go in anti-national directions. The sin of Marxism was to degrade socialism into a question of wages and the stomach , putting it in conflict with the state and its national existence. An understanding of both these facts leads us to a new sense of socialism, which sees its nature as nationalistic, state-building, liberating and constructive
Your post is so welcome here as it is 100% right on. The points made are correct and the revisionism on the left to cast the blame for it upon others is noted.
Corn husking for Larry ?
What’s that supposed to mean?
religious extremists are free to cherry pick the bible, but cherry picking the Constitution to promote unamerican ideals will only serve to speed their ultimate and deserved ongoing demise. religious insurgents in America should be treated as harshly as they are on the other side of the world when they cross the wall of separation. taxing them as businesses is the first logical step and will remove their illegal relevance from politics.
I don’t see what laws they are breaking and if their activities are illegal why would the government not prosecute. I don’t see how a tax would change anything.
Your comment is so off topic to any rational objective observer. This seed is about media bias and not for you to go on yet another anti religion tirade
religion was introduced to this topic at 2.1.1, by you.
Actually it wasn’t. Media and media fact checkers bias toward different web media was what that post was about.
Actually, it was. You pointed out Christian sites specifically and opened that door.
that douchbag should move to a country that is democacy
- this is a republic and our country is not going to magically change into a democracy because progressives said this or that.
the electoral college will outlive everyone alive today and then some.
Indeed it will. The Medium author shows his hate for all America is when he displays the kind of intolerance he has for a pluralistic society.