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Hollywood Liberal Fascism and Obama’s State of the Union (VIDEO)
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On January 29, 2014 @ 10:00 am In The Point | 10 Comments
This clip from Gabriel Over the White House, a Hollywood propaganda flick reviewed by FDR and meant to encourage New Deal dictatorship, may capture the imperial agenda that Obama and his supporters are now bent on promoting.
The film depicts an FDR look-alike president who, after a coma-inducing car accident, is transformed from a passive Warren Harding type into a hands-on dictator. The reborn commander-in-chief suspends the Constitution, violently wipes out corruption, and revives the economy through a national socialist agenda. When Congress tries to impeach him, he dissolves Congress.
The Library of Congress summarizes the film nicely. “The good news: He reduces unemployment, lifts the country out of the Depression, battles gangsters and Congress, and brings about world peace. The bad news: He’s Mussolini.”
There are familiar echoes here. The film pits its tyrant against a reactionary Congress that refuses to enact his radical policies. Its FDR stand-in concedes that he is a dictator as he declares a national state of emergency and suspends Congress, but his is a dictatorship based on Jefferson’s principles of Democracy, which he interprets as being the greatest good for the greatest number.
Considering Jefferson’s suspicion of centralized government, his thoughts on a real-life Hammond would have involved a second revolution.
But modern Obamanites insist on the supremacy for the greatest good over actual democracy. The one-man rule of phone and pen that Obama is launching has little to distinguish it from Hammond’s overt liberal fascism. The difference is a matter of portrayal.
Obama hasn’t gotten to the point where he would try to suspend Congress. But he is trying for one-man rule, repeatedly defying Congress and the Supreme Court. What he’s offering is the same brand of liberal fascism.
In that context, it’s instructive to remind his supporters of what happened to the man behind Gabriel Over the White House.
Hearst took personal interest in the project and wrote much of the dialogue himself…
The plot of a cynical, womanizing bachelor president who — under divine guidance — makes himself a benevolent dictator and uses overwhelming military force to end organized crime and war was so incendiary that the Hays Office demanded major changes. Bear in mind that as weird as it is, what you’ll see is a vanilla version of what Hearst really wanted…
It was at such a time of crisis that FDR briefly considered taking dictatorial powers to defeat the Depression and was advised by some such as Hearst to do just that. Perhaps because he had a virtually rubber-stamp Democratic Congress, he decided to take the Constitutional route rather than the one taken by President Hammond in the movie…
Hearst also does not seem at first to have understood that the enormous public works program and military buildup that he himself recommended would require wealthy Americans such as himself to foot much of the bill to pay for it, and that would stop construction on his assorted castles at San Simeon and elsewhere. By 1935 when FDR launched the WPA, Hearst had become one of Roosevelt’s most powerful and bitter enemies…
Many of Obama’s backers don’t seem to understand that the price of fascism will eventually be paid by them.
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