And British liberals are showing how its done:
Shannon Love at Chicago Boyz surveys the British political scene and muses on whether the recent rise of the British National Party tells us anything about how a European society can be infatuated with the Left one year and switch over to fascism in a relatively short period…
…If fascism and Left wing socialism share most of their political DNA then this process is easy to understand. When the vital 5% — or whatever crucially differentiates them — flips then one becomes the other. The BNP is not a ‘conservative party’ in the American mold. It is essentially a racist but economically Left wing organization which accepts a large state role in managing the economy. Where it differs with the Left is for whose benefit the economy should be managed. For the Left the answer is: for the benefit of what it defines to be the historical victim — Muslims, immigrants from former colonies and people with special sexual needs. For the BNP the answer to the question is: for the benefit of the poor white; the indigene; the people who have lived in the British isles. The Left correctly accuses the BNP of dividing the nation. What it fails to recognize is that the BNP is simply paying them back in their own coin. This exchange of toxic currency has set up a zero sum game. It has cast the Left as the champions of one side and the BNP is happily casting itself as the champions of the other.
Indications are the that the British National Party (which is essentially National Socialist in ideology) will do quite well in the British elections expected in May of next year. Now, the BNP isn’t going to win a majority in the Commons, but it shows the danger in having any sort of ideology which puts the State at the center of politics and makes the people mere cogs in the machine. The lower class Brits are merely making the smallest of adjustments – still socialists hoping for the government hand out, but now insisting that the Moslem immigrants be kicked out. Other than that one thing, there are no fundamental economic differences between Labour and the BNP.
It is the individual who is endowed by the Creator with rights – the State has no right except those delegated to it by the people. This is the distilled essence of American ideology and it is pretty much non-existent in European thought these days. Government is the path to all things – power, wealth, privilege, honor. And so people fight over who gets to be in control of government…and if someone is clever enough to graft a bit of racism on to socialism in order to appeal to a class of people who feel dispossessed in their own land, who on the left really has the right to complain? You think the BNP cannot be replicated in the United States? Of course it can – and it would command the votes of millions…anyone who feels that the GOP is the party of big business and the Democrats the party of the “other” and that neither party is addressing their needs can be induced to be National Socialist.
This is why it is so crucial for we conservative Republicans to really make clear that we are on the side of the people – all the people, everywhere. Why I harp upon the sanctity of human life, why I harp upon the need to find a path to citizenship for the illegals; why I harp upon the need for strict border controls; why I harp upon the need to reign in the big corporations, especially the banks; why I harp upon the need for us to make, mine and grow more of our own stuff – because when we address the real concerns of average folks, we’re doing the real business of government: catering to the needs of individuals as they run their own lives.
We have a choice to make, and we’ll make it over the next four to six years – will we be the nation our Founders created, or will we become, in one manner or another, a fascist State? That our fascism might be liberal-fascism where we ostensibly try to be nice won’t change the fact that the mailed fist will still be there – as will the soul destroying ideology which will set us on the path to national extinction. We can fight for what we are, or allow ourselves to be destroyed. The choice is ours.
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