Rock and Roll Conservative

Just a thought...

After listening to Rush Limbaugh’s show today -- particularly the segment concerning Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel -- it reminded me of some relatively recent European history. Limbaugh has been calling Obama's policies fascist in nature and I completely agree. One of the principles of fascism, of course, is essentially the government control of industry for its own purposes.

I'm struck more, however, by the attraction to death in ObamaCare. It reminds me of the cult of death that had its start in the Weimer Republic and achieved its full glory under Mussolini and Hitler. It’s not the cult of death that promoted martyrdom in the cause of National Socialism or Italian fascism, a call to glory based on a mythic past, but a cult of death which promotes things like death panels and what Emmanuel argued in a November blog post. (Some of his ideas are enumerated here)

Though the ultimate goals in both are ostensibly different, there are common threads -- outside of Emanuel's scary Nazi-like plan not to guarantee disabled children treatment. In both people must die in order for the majority to receive what they feel they deserve from the state. In Hitler's case it was German supremacy. In Obama's care it is progressive supremacy.

Secondly, a human being's life is not their own, that it belongs to the state. For Hitler and Mussolini it meant throwing millions into a slaughterhouse but for progressives it means willingly sacrificing anyone who doesn't fit into their calculations for an optimal society. In both cases the individual does not exist, only categories of masses that need to be managed for our supposed good.

Perhaps that's ultimately the reason for abortion. Hitler and Mussolini needed to prepare the ground for total war and they instilled in their populations the idea that death was necessary to build a new world. Abortion allowed progressives to sell the idea that state permitted and funded death of innocents was permissible because it advanced society.

Perhaps Limbaugh’s comparison of the ObamaCare logo to Nazi insignia wasn't too far off after all.

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