Intellectually, fascism is far more dishonest than socialism, which at least has the courage to assert legal ownership of the economy and thus assume the legal responsibility for its functioning. Fascism places the responsibility for the economy on business, which is rendered seemingly private, with the facade of private ownership. Fascism accomplishes this, however, more insidiously. Instead of being a straightforward employee of the government, you and I are told that our lives and businesses are still private, while any attempt to act as such is proscribed by a myriad of regulations-until we are trapped and immobilized in Washington's web. Manufactured Crises Dictators have traditionally created external crises to consolidate internal power.
People are then freely willing to trade freedom for security.
The great discovery in recent times is that social crises can be just as effective as military ones. But there is a big difference between an excuse and a purpose. These excuses are simply convenient subterfuges to trick the American people into letting the Washington Oligarchy expand its power. After Johnson's War on Poverty, Nixon's War on Drugs, and Carter's Energy Crisis, then came the premier liberal crisis of modern times, the Environmental Crisis. None ever offered free market solutions, nor were they used to expand individual freedom rather than restrict it.