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'I think you have " progressives" confused with "communists" or "fascists" (as Mussolini stated, fascism is the merger of corporation and state", the direct opposite of the values espoused by literally every progressive I have ever known.'

Too bad you you didn't know the progressive godfather FDR, who more than anyone else was responsible for imposing fascism in the US.

'Roosevelt himself called Mussolini “admirable” and professed that he was “deeply impressed by what he has accomplished.” The admiration was mutual. In a laudatory review of Roosevelt’s 1933 book Looking Forward, Mussolini wrote, “Reminiscent of Fascism is the principle that the state no longer leaves the economy to its own devices.…Without question, the mood accompanying this sea change resembles that of Fascism.” The chief Nazi newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, repeatedly praised “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” and “the development toward an authoritarian state” based on the “demand that collective good be put before individual self-interest.'

~ http://reason.com/archives/2007/09/28/hitler-mussolini-roosevelt

But then, like pretty much every progressive I've ever had the misfortune to come into contact with, your ignorance is only surpassed by your arrogance.

"[T]otal wild west economics". Hilarious.

The perfect example of how to tell people you want centralized control of the economy while saying the opposite.

How typical with your lot.

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