« Campaign Flashback | Main | The Question of Toughness » Your Kids Will Meditate in School18 Dec 2007 02:14 pm Jonah Goldberg calls Liberal Fascism a very serious argument that's never been made before in such detail or with such care, but it seems to me that the Dead Kennedys covered this ground decades ago: One has to wonder what it is about Jerry Brown's secret allegiance to fascism that's allowed him to mount his improbable return to statewide political office. Comments (20)
Hello, My Name Is _______. I'm A Fascist. Thanks to Jonah, I now know that all of my adult life... I've been a fascist. I called my parents and broke the news to them. They cried. I cried. They admitted that they too, were fascists. They'd been fascists since they were in high school. I confessed to my girlfriend. She listened carefully, then said, "I've always been impressed by the principles in your liberal beliefs. They get me hot," and told me she loved me, in part, because I was a fascist, and she was one, too. Then she asked me to marry her. I took what I learned from Jonah, and confessed to all my friends that I was a fascist. It turned out they were all liberal fascists, too. Whew. Hey, I was worried there for a minute. I don't look good in brown, and it's almost impossible for me to profess a belief in ideas just to turn a buck. Unlike Jonah. 
As the Kennedys said later: We got a bigger problem now.
Jonah's out-Chomsky-ed Chomsky, who only could come up with a sentence that's well-formed and meaningless. He's apparently produced an entire book that's well-formed and meaningless.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 2006 revised edition. 2) Some Other entries: Fiscal Conservatives: N.pl. The three Presidents whose personal signatures incurred $8 Trillion in national debt Christian: N. Someone who starts an unnecessary war which kills 50,000 women and children Christian Charity: N. The act of giving the richest 1 percent of the population $2 Trillion in tax cuts while 40 million citizens have no health care. Strong military: N. A political policy in which $1 Trillion is given to defense contractors, defense contractors give $10 million to Republican members of Congress, families of enlisted men are told to apply for food stamps, and 19 men from a minor country pull off the Sept 11 attack Patriotism: N. Useing the tax code to encourage wealthy capitalists to invest overseas and then recruiting unemployed Americans into the military to defend those foreign investments.
Love the Ambrose Bierce ref. Well done.
Is Jello Biafra running for President again?
Dan P. beat me to it.
Somehow I can't help but think that it's the idea of _jogging_ for the master race that really scares Jonah, even more than having to eat things that are 100% natural.
Goddamn Jello Biafra is weird.
That's when I reach for my composter.
Somewhat more seriously, though, this sort of thing did show the silliness, in the end, of the sort of anarchism that Punk Rock was (at one time) about. I suppose that seeing Diane Feinstein as the face of the democratic party would not be encouraging but still. To their credit even the Dead Kennedys eventually grew up somewhat, singing later, "anarchy sounds good to me until someone asks who'd fix the sewer..."
Ron Paul insinuated that Huckleberry is a fascist on Faux News. I am speechless. Is there an update to Godwin's Law that covers the f word?
Goddamn Jello Biafra is weird. He's no Krokus Behemoth. Anyone who's seen Goldberg's manuscript... was he clever enough to make DK allusions? Do the words "suede-denim secret police" appear anywhere?
Jonah has a family to feed. If he has to call schoolteachers nazis in order to keep the kids in knickers, who can blame him, aside from the facist schoolteachers who have to teach his kids? Yeah, well, so what.
I can only assume that's from latter in their career, as they look [i]really[/i] bored running through California Uber Alles. At least it wasn't one of the shows where Jello ended up naked.
Any other time, seeing the words "Jello" and "naked" so close together would be a good thing.
I like the loungy anti-Reagan "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now" remix too... For those who aren't aware, the cover of the first DK's album is from the White Night riots, when gay groups, punks and leftists rioted in San Francisco after the acquittal of Dan White, who murdered Harvey Milk and George Moscone, the last genuinely liberal mayor of San Francisco. Ironically these murders paved DiFi's rise to power. As Rebecca Solnit dissects in her book, "Hollow City", San Francisco hasn't been the same since. I wonder how the wiki of anti-Reagan songs is going....
I don't know about any suede-denim secret police, but it was not long ago that a certain Mayor of Oakland was defending his police for brutalizing anti-war protesters and longshoremen.
If we were advising Jonah on this, we would tell him to personalize the issue - It's entirely possible that Jonah felt personally oppressed around haute-bourgeois liberals when he was growing up. That's probably the root of the fascist-feeling, in his mind.
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