Did Henry Wallace have a crystal ball?

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism. They cultivate hate and distrust. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

Henry Wallace 1944

Written in the NYT April 9, 1944

http://newdeal.feri.org/wallace/index.htm

There was a PBS special on about Wallace last week, I think. He was a very intelligent and interesting man. His father and grandfather were repubs, but he switched to Democratic after seeing the plight of farmers in his state. He and FDR were a great team.

...because of his views to save the world from nuclear annihilation and imperialism.

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Henry Wallace Would Never
Have Dropped the Bomb on Japan
by Robert L. Baker

In 1944, Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, was, next to President Franklin Roosevelt, the most popular New Deal Democrat; the number-one promoter of FDR's New Deal programs; and was poised to become the post-war President to carry on FDR's anti-colonial world economic development vision. Wallace had, by Summer of that year, toured South America, China, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere, representing FDR, as part of the preparations for the intended post-war program for full-scale, U.S.-led worldwide economic growth.

Wallace had written book-length documents—approved by FDR—on post-war development perspectives, both for the domestic economy and internationally. His books, such as Our Job in the Pacific (1944), the Soviet Asian Development (1944), and many others, explained that there must be nation-building, not empire. "The Century of the Common Man," is what his international New Deal perspective came to be popularly termed, after a speech by Wallace in June 1943.

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In September 1946, a speech by Wallace at Madison Square Garden, in New York City, became the occasion for a direct London denunciation of him, and public demand for his removal from office. On Sept. 12, 1946, in an address titled, "The Way to Peace," Wallace said, "He who trusts in the atom bomb will perish by the atom bomb—or something worse.... But to make Britain the key to our foreign policy would be ... the height of folly.... We must not let British balance of power manipulations determine whether and when the United States gets into war.

"Make no mistake about it—the British imperialistic policy in the Near East alone, combined with Russian retaliation, would lead the United States straight to war...

"... It is essential that we look abroad through our own eyes and not through the eyes of either the British Foreign Office or a pro-British or anti-Russian press.... The tougher we get, the tougher they get.

"I believe that we can get cooperation once Russia understands that our primary objective is neither saving the British Empire nor purchasing oil in the near East with the lives of American soldiers. We cannot let national oil rivalries force us into a war...."

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<link> http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3043h_wallace.html

He just knew what kind of power there was in this country. That's the beauty of it. Kristol, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Krauthammer, and all the rest of that pack, are nothing new. That force has always been here. And it always will be. A few protests, a number of written letters, a call or two to a representative in Congress won't change that.

It really doesn't matter what you call it. Fascism is just power acting in its own best interest. It only makes sense that, at some point, a few people in government and business would make a deal. They can both help each other.

Throw in a little religion, and here we are.

ChurchStateCorporation

Melt those three into one, and you have everything.

thankyou for the post.