With the schedule you just mentioned and from what I see from so many others on site here, most seem to get very little sleep. But the efforts are appreciated, thanks.

You’re also right about how connected the book’s themes are to what’s playing out in DC today. And the amazing thing is, Goldberg wrote this way before Obama was elected, even before he was running, I think (someone will have to fact-check me on that.)

Anyway, thanks for your support…

Am I better off ignorant?

A suggestion for Book Notes, perhaps these could be posted on the weekend and more time is available to read and discuss same. Mondays and the rest of the week bring lots of other diaries and political events seem to crowd these out. IMO, these would be good diaries for the weekend on RS. Just a thought.

Sorry, lame levity interjection, we now return to regular interacting….

Populist movements and populous movements are intersecting sets, but neither is a subset of the other.

I had always had suspicions that the FDR administration was not all the left has it cracked up to be. The more I research, the more I learn. Put away the halo once and for all The One was not then and is not now.

I went to the site to purchase my copy if Lib Fascism when it came out and a roaring “discssuion” was going on under the heading “White Men are the New Jews.” Naturally I jumped right in.

One guy kept insisting that the Nazi’s weren’t socialists because Hitler never liked the name itself. He never offered any proof of this, but even if he had, it would seem to make little difference to me.

Of course, one runs in to a whole lot of whacko’s over there debating the merits of various books. I argued for weeks one time with a guy who insisted that the Holocaust was sham resurrected for PR purposes at the end of the war. No matter how much evidnce one threw at him, he always claimed it was bogus.

For instance, what about the live interviews with survivors of the camps? Well, it was either altered before publication or there was no proof that they were Jews. And on and on it went.

In the middle of the discussion, the shooting at the Holocaust memorial took place. Because of his virulent anti-Semitism, the three of us who were swinging away at this denier and his erstwhile posting buddy truly thought we were debating James W. von Brunn!

I guess I better start re-reading chapter five now that I know folks are “lurking.”

And yeah, ain’t C. S. Lewis GREAT?!?!?! He’s a former atheist you know…

And oh, the things I’ve learned.

The Clinton stuff is interesting, but the most enlightening portions of this book are the history and relationship of modern liberalism and fascism. I always assumed that the name of the National Socialist party of Germany was reason enough to believe that fascism was of the left, but I didn’t have the historical ammo to make the argument.

Now, I do. And I have that argument now, at the ready.

So keep slogging through this epic book. I, for one, can’t wait to do this with the Federalist Papers. And maybe next Sunday night I can do some writing on Liberal Fascism, Chapter 5

Here, the silent majority thrives.

And you are probably right, but I too give him credit for trying. It’s nice to have the truth on record in such superb form.

Maybe we should start calling the liberal left fascists for a change!

But since we are conservatives, it’s really not in our nature to call people names, even if it’s true.

The socialists had to threaten to nationalize one fifth of the economy just to get us up and yelling at townhall meetings…

Many thanks to Warrior and to Erick for this project; know that we’re reading along with you, appreciating your insights, finding much more food for thought, even if we aren’t replying.

For the record, my copy is beginning to look like a study Bible: all red notes and highlights. The CS Lewis quote is circled in red AND highlighted, and forwarded to my bleedingheartliberaldemocrat sister just to p*** her off.

@Warrior above: “Stopping current attempts to further socialize our country are surely more important than reading about those from the past, although they are inexorably linked…”

Sting has a song called ‘History Will Teach Us Nothing’ which used to really annoy me, until this most recent election when its truth became paramount. Those who do not learn from the past, etc. This concept is absolutely embodied in the current climate of the political elites, all of whom have the arrogance to assume that only because THEY were not in charge have these ideas failed, but now that we’re here, look out.

Hubris? One of the first steps a civilization can make toward its own destruction.