Government's Current Role in Business is 'Route' to Fascism


	Government's Current Role in Business is 'Route' to Fascism

disenchantedcitizen

5-30-2009 7:26 PM

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socialism, fascism, democracy

disenchantedcitizen says:

Sowell argued it would take a “calamity” for people to realize that fascism is taking place – the issue being just how big it would be before the public could connect the dots.

“Well to do that, they would have to think,” Sowell explained. “And this whole personality cult has caught on in such a way that it is going to be a while before people start thinking. It is a question of how big of a calamity is it gonna take before they snap out of it.”

It didn't start with Obama.

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