Whole Foods' CEO Mackey Is Right—ObamaCare Is Like Fascism

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In 2009, when Whole Foods CEO John Mackey in a Wall Street Journal op-ed compared the health care "public option" then under consideration by Congress to socialism — a nationalized economic system wherein the government owns the means of production — hardly anyone batted an eyelash.

Sure, at the time, the left-wing site Daily Kos called for a boycott. And a Facebook group at the time managed to find a couple hundred users angry about the characterization. Whole Foods set up a special forum for customers to express their views on the op-ed.

But it was hardly the response Whole Foods got when on Jan. 16 in an NPR interview, Mackey was asked a follow-up question on what he thought about the current law.

After all, the "public option" was never adopted. What came afterward, now known in popular vernacular as ObamaCare, was a mishmash of mandates, regulations and price controls — but fell short of an outright nationalization of the insurance industry.

That was when Mackey used the F-word. No, not that one. The other one.

"Technically speaking, it's more like fascism," Mackey said in the NPR interview, adding, "Socialism is where the government owns the means of production. In fascism, the government doesn't own the means of production, but they do control it, and that's what's happening with our health care programs and these reforms."

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Food, Fascism, and Obama Rules - Michael Leeden

 

 

John Mackey, the feisty CEO of Whole Foods, says Obamacare is “fascist economics” and he regrets having said it, even though he insists — correctly — that it’s a textbook case of Mussolini-style corporate statism. Private property continues to exist, but the state controls all business. That’s why the fascists called their totalitarian system a “third way” between unbridled capitalism and Soviet-style Communism.

Back in the twenties and early thirties, before German National Socialism became the archetypal “fascist” doctrine, Mussolini’s call for a new kind of national economy intrigued many serious thinkers and leaders, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

 

Mr. Mackey was also right to regret using the term “fascist,” because it invokes so many passions and stereotypes that it hinders, rather than advances, understanding. But “fascism” was a very successful mass movement in Western Europe for an entire generation, and it flourishes in many countries today. It behooves us to understand why it was so popular, and how most of our politics differ from it. We have fascist economics, but certainly not fascist politics or foreign policy in America today, even though there are echoes of it every so often.

There are many varieties of fascism, but the principal elements are:

 

A single party dictatorship, headed by a charismatic leader.

A politics of enthusiasm, involving the masses in ritual public celebration, and direct exchanges between the leader and his followers en masse.

Hypernationalism, or, in the Nazi case, racism, based on the claim that the nation or race is unique, superior, and entitled to play a major role in world affairs.

The aforementioned “corporate state” in which private property is legitimate, but the state dictates its proper use.

 

http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2013/01/22/food-fascism-and-obama-rules/

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Food, Fascism, and Obama Rules - Michael Leeden

 

 

John Mackey, the feisty CEO of Whole Foods, says Obamacare is “fascist economics” and he regrets having said it, even though he insists — correctly — that it’s a textbook case of Mussolini-style corporate statism. Private property continues to exist, but the state controls all business. That’s why the fascists called their totalitarian system a “third way” between unbridled capitalism and Soviet-style Communism.

Back in the twenties and early thirties, before German National Socialism became the archetypal “fascist” doctrine, Mussolini’s call for a new kind of national economy intrigued many serious thinkers and leaders, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

 

 

Benito Is Your Friend

Fredösphere

1/15/13

 

In case you missed it, here's Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey apologizing for calling Obamacare "fascist".

 

 

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In short, Fascism equals Hitler in the popular mind. Mackey's use of the term is doomed to appear hysterical. (Mackey thinks Obamacare means swastikas and gas chambers? Whaaa?)

 

There's no way we can fight that. Not now. Fortunately, there's a simple work-around.

 

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All Nazi's were Fascists...that does not mean all Fascists were Nazi's. Something 90% of the people don't really understand. History, it's not just for breakfast anymore!