Re: "Liberal Fascism" -- Jonah Goldberg, Doubleday 2007

On May 17, 8:24 am, David Johnston <da...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008 09:08:39 -0400, Keon <keo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >Keon <keo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> > The point about fascism is that those who adopt it overwhelmingly
> >> > come up through the ranks of the Left (liberalism in the US) as I
> >> > pointed out. That cannot be disputed.
>
> >> But it has been througly debunked.   It cannot be disputed because
it's
> >> fundamenally incorrect!
>
> >If Fascism is leftist, why did most of the British Conservatives
sup****t the
> >likes of Sir Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists?
>
> >Why did the American right and the Canadian right not want to go to war
with
> >Hitler?  Why did industrialists like Prescott Bush, Henry Ford (anti-
> >unionists) work with Hitler?
>
> Prescott Bush wasn't an industrialist and didn't work with Hitler.

He sold Hitler oil during WW2.  That's close enough for me.

>He
> was on the board of directors of an American bank owned by a German
> who contributed to the Nazi party.  Bush's connection was about money,
> not politics.