Nothing says fawning progressive media like the old adage about Fascism making the trains run on time.
Back then Fascism wasn’t the dirty word it is today. Progressives and Liberals publicly embraced it, supported it, pined for it, and insisted it would replace the Constitutional Republic. It was the Change they were looking for. Well we appear to have a Twenty-First century ‘Islamic State’ equivalent.
The group famous for its beheadings, crucifixions and mass executions provides electricity and water, pays salaries, controls traffic, and runs nearly everything from bakeries and banks to schools, courts and mosques.
While its merciless battlefield tactics and its imposition of its austere vision of Islamic law have won the group headlines, residents say much of its power lies in its efficient and often deeply pragmatic ability to govern.
This is “life under a Caliphate” my friends, “almost no institution or public service outside of its control.”
National Socialism and Fascism were dreamy for the political left right up until the brutality became too obvious to hide from, at which point a system of government with all the same goals as the Democrat party became a right wing ideology. Almost everything is, after all, to the right of communism, even New Hampshire’s own Carol Shea-Porter and Ann Kuster, and Jeanne Shaheen, if only slightly.
The Islamic State’s form of government is also fascism, but in this 21st century telling we already know about the brutality. Brutality…against journalists. And yet still, we get a fawning news report from Reuters about how these terrorist Islamo-fascists have a deeply pragmatic ability to govern?
Really?
