RUSH: This Is Way Beyond A Banana Republic Now. This Is Stalinism.

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#1 | RUSH: This Is Way Beyond A Banana Republic Now. This Is Stalinism. datum

Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:29 pm

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#2 | RE: RUSH: This Is Way Beyond A Banana Republic Now. This Is Stalinism. datum

Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:57 pm

Come on!

Stalin ruled for 30 years and 20 million died. What's Rush smoking?

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#3 | RE: RUSH: This Is Way Beyond A Banana Republic Now. This Is Stalinism. datum

Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:18 pm

Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #2
Come on!

Stalin ruled for 30 years and 20 million died. What's Rush smoking?

I have a few points of disagreement with Rush.

This is the fascism flavor of statism, the pretense of private ownership with government regs determining what you can and cannot do.

It is banana republic in terms of lack of rule of law.

It's not that no one knows what to do, it's that no one with the power will do what is necessary to stop Zero. Boehner has ceded the power of the purse. The so called opposition party only opposes those who oppose Zero's unconstitutional actions.

Illegitimi non Carborundum

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#4 | RE: RUSH: This Is Way Beyond A Banana Republic Now. This Is Stalinism. datum

Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:23 pm

I believe Rush is using "Stalinism" as an equivalent to totalitarianism, and he's not far wrong.

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#5 | RE: RUSH: This Is Way Beyond A Banana Republic Now. This Is Stalinism. datum

Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:29 pm

Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #4
I believe Rush is using "Stalinism" as an equivalent to totalitarianism, and he's not far wrong.

If that is the case, he's not far off.

I think of Stalinism in terms of the communist variant of statism.

Illegitimi non Carborundum

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#6 | RE: RUSH: This Is Way Beyond A Banana Republic Now. This Is Stalinism. datum

Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:16 pm

Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #4
I believe Rush is using "Stalinism" as an equivalent to totalitarianism, and he's not far wrong.

No in that regard Obama is quite Stalinist.

But the term Stalinism goes far beyond what we are witnessing so far. These rants by Rush invite mischaracterization -- maybe he likes that, maybe he enjoys being taken out of context. There is the unfortunate price of many people disregarding him as sensational, not his intended meaning but just the same, he gives the conservative cause needless bad press.

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Christianity teaches to share what we have earned, the "cheerful giver" model.
Christianity: It's mine but I choose to give away
Socialism: What's yours should be mine

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#7 | RE: RUSH: This Is Way Beyond A Banana Republic Now. This Is Stalinism. datum

Fri Feb 14, 2014 7:18 pm

Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #2
Come on!

Stalin ruled for 30 years and 20 million died. What's Rush smoking?

Coming to a country near you.

If history has taught us anything, it's that people this far to the Left usually get around to liquidating those who resist (and even some of those who don't.)

You're kidding yourself if you think it can't/won't happen here.

The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government. ~ Thomas Paine

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#8 | RE: RUSH: This Is Way Beyond A Banana Republic Now. This Is Stalinism. datum

Fri Feb 14, 2014 7:23 pm

You can split hairs 'til you're blue in the face.

Communism, Statism, Stalinism, Fascism...it's all the same and none of it has a place in our Constitutional Republic.

The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government. ~ Thomas Paine

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#9 | RE: RUSH: This Is Way Beyond A Banana Republic Now. This Is Stalinism. datum

Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:20 pm

Quote: Rev wrote in post #8
You can split hairs 'til you're blue in the face.

Communism, Statism, Stalinism, Fascism...it's all the same and none of it has a place in our Constitutional Republic.

Well we don't disagree Rev on the outlandishness of what we're seeing. It is ominous and concerning. What we're seeing today could well be the embryonic stage of full blown Stalinism.

I have found our points of agreement in this discussion.

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Christianity teaches to share what we have earned, the "cheerful giver" model.
Christianity: It's mine but I choose to give away
Socialism: What's yours should be mine

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#10 | RE: RUSH: This Is Way Beyond A Banana Republic Now. This Is Stalinism. datum

Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:39 pm

I wish this was a Banana Republic. Then every time I went outside, there would be yellow delicious banana hanging from the trees. You know how expensive those damn things are at the store?