Here is a comment made about me today on another forum.

RD is getting geared up for the his speech during the July 4th parade on Main St. Ohio. He’ uses the winter months to get that snap in the salute. De Karki suite well starched along with the Red, White & Black armband. This year he might grow some facial hair

That was in response to a comment I made regarding inaccuracies in Obama’s Egypt speech. I get tagged a fascist a lot around the web.

Reading through Mussolini’s definition of fascism this morning got me thinking about what fascism isn’t. To understand what it isn’t, you have to know what it is.

Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity.

It is opposed to classical liberalism which arose as a reaction to absolutism and exhausted its historical function when the State became the expression of the conscience and will of the people. Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual; Fascism reasserts

The rights of the State as expressing the real essence of the individual. And if liberty is to he the attribute of living men and not of abstract dummies invented by individualistic liberalism, then Fascism stands for liberty, and for the only liberty worth having, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State. The Fascist conception of the State is all embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State – a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values – interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people.

If this is fascism, the Real Revo is about as far from fascism on the political scale as is possible. We stand for individualism. We are fiercely independent, largely self-reliant, skeptical of government power, fearful of the passions of the public at large, and modest in our national ambitions. We believe the government the governs the least, governs the best. We understand the State to be a necessary evil. In other words we are the polar opposite of fascists.

It is amusing how often, however, we are called fascists by the very people who embrace Obama’s vision for larger government, the unification of society, social democracy over federalism, of corporatist economics and basically every attribute of 20th century European fascism. The irony is rich: The favorite insult of fascists to tag anti-fascists with is the slur of referring to us as fascists.

Below, Mischelle Obama gives the infamous speech that would have made Mussolini proud.

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