Another Republican following lunatic F. A. Hayek's definition of "Planning" on The Road To Serfdom!

[TheBlackAdder]

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F. A. Hayek was a fucking lunatic who wrote that liberalism and socialism led to fascism and Nazi-ism. His goal was trying to sell fascism as a manifestation of liberal values. This included social and economic projects, which would lead down the slippery slope to a fascist state.

Any moron knows that the liberalism and socialism are in the opposite political spectrum of the later... except New Republicans. They need to grasp onto Hayek and another loon, William F. Buckley, whose perverse "God & Man at Yale" formed the underpinnings of the New Republican movement. It takes warped minds to digest their writings as legitimate. Then, there is Ayn Rand--that goes without saying.


Here's the Reader's Digest condensed version of "The Road to Serfdom, so you can see how warped Hayek's mind was.

http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files/upldbook43pdf.pdf


Here's an illustrated version of it, in cartoon form, which targets the sophomoric minds of conservatives.

https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/Road%20to%20Serfdom%20in%20Cartoons.pdf?file=1&type=document


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Trump and the GOP are the "planners and Nazis" F. A. Hayek warns about, promising a Utopia for Middle America.

Their social engineering, or planning to create a Christian Utopia, their planning to create an Economic Utopia, their planning to create a Secure and Safe Utopia are all pretexts for a fascist and Nazi-led state. They are using Hayek as their model, much the same way they use most of Karl Marx, sans the socialism as the end-all, as their model to destroy America.

They love to quote Adam Smith, the "Father of Capitalism," when it comes to a Laissez-faire economic system--but ignore the fact that chapters later, Smith called for a stiff Progressive Tax Structure that heavily penalizes the wealthy. That part the Republicans seem to have amnesia when mentioned.


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Here is the latest Trump / GOP example of Planning--the pretext to their fascist goals.

Trump to Grant Lifeline to Money-Losing Coal Power Plants

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-01/trump-said-to-grant-lifeline-to-money-losing-coal-power-plants-jhv94ghl

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[malaise]

1. Hayek and Friedman were the two biggest influences on the Reagan/Thatcher

New World Order - it's how we got here. Neo-liberalism/corporatism and racism on steroids at home and abroad.

[DetlefK]

2. The shortest possible summary of "The Road To Serfdom":

1. A planned economy during wartime.

2. Maybe this would also be good for peacetime?

3. Planners have plans.

4. The plans contradict.

5. Different voters have different ideas.

6. Instead of negotiating to find a compromise the majority supports, the planners just sit around and wait for a miracle to happen to clear things up.

7. The planners use state-propaganda to convince people of the non-existent single plan.

8. Voters are confused and stupid and form a party of radicals. (Please insert "Tea Party"-joke.)

9. The planners are still blocking each other because PLOT-TWIST even though they have been selling an agreed-upon plan via state-propaganda, such a plan actually doesn't exist.

10. The planners who are fighting each other for power somehow decide to hand power over to a strong-man.

11. Dictatorship.

12.-14. Bad things.

15. Wages go down because workers have no power. (Never forget: Unions are evil!)

16./17. More bad things.

18. If you quit your job, they will kill you.




Warning: This slope is slippery.