Reddit mentions of As We Go Marching: A Biting Indictment of the Coming of Domestic Fascism in America

>One of my friends who is a "limited government" libertarian told me the problem with anarchy is that it will lead to more government. I of course responded, well that seems to be the problem with limited government too.

So, anarchy leads to government (probably always to an extent, but there are examples of anarcho societies that have existed longer than the United States has been a nation). Limited government leads to more government. And more government leads to more government. Therefore we're all fucked?

>There seems to be noway in preventing this band of criminals from taking over society. It seems that man is just doomed to live in tyranny.

Eh, not really. History is cyclical -- it has no (universal) end. Fukuyama was wrong about that, and an asshole. Mises, Hayek and Flynn were right: government leads to more government, and liberty is abandoned at home. Such societies reach a stage of cultural and economic stagnation.

Heinlein probably nailed it best in -- or at least perhaps most famously -- in speculative fiction. Various works of his explore political systems as changing depending upon how far away from home you are. People join together to form tribes, and they live in villages. Villages grow into towns, towns into cities, cities into kingdoms / nations. Nations into empires. Empires collapse, and political life becomes more local again.

And, as people become politically frustrated, economically or religiously oppressed, or more adventurous (as a result of accumulated wealth), they begin to explore the frontier, and so the process starts all over again in another place. That's the cycle of history.

For western civilization, the exploration took Europeans around the world, and founded colonies in the Americas. Wealth accumulated. Government grew, as economies were able to support it. And much of the developing world was lifted up with us. So now we're starting to explore the next frontier: space.

Liberty will again reign, just not here. The beauty of it this time, however, is that space is practically infinite. Space will be free.

No, De Gaulle fought the Nazis. Big difference. Especially since the West continues to embrace Fascism.

Edit: looks like a lot of you don't know what fascism is.

Funny, I thought, "This kid has been lobbed the ultimate softball." The Anti-defamation league, People for the American Way, LA Times editorial staff, etc. live for a story like this. The major battles were all won decades ago, so it must be increasingly difficult to justify liberal paranoia over the encroachment of the religious right. Finding a backwater school district in New Jersey is perfect for them. One phone call and the entire establishment tastes the blood in the water. This kid will have no trouble getting into the college of his choice.

The entire idea of anyone trusting public school education is incredible to me. No one trusts Exxon-Mobil for climatology, why do people trust the state for government and history?

When a student gets in the LA Times for arguing that pledging to the flag constitutes an illegal civic religion, then I will be impressed. Even better would be challenging the schools for not teaching the other [biography of FDR](http://www.amazon.com/As-we-marching-John-Flynn/dp/09141560040, the skepticism over climate change, or the dangers of progressivism.

This kid may be brave on some level, but he is also the ultimate tool of the system.