. . . we think she did, anyhow. But so did many others. So let’s build on that, she decided, and came up with quite a tale.

Collectivism hailed by Il Duce, etc.

Mussolini here and here:

“Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority … a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.”

Socialism’s two legs:

“Socialism needs two legs on which to stand; a right and a left.
While appearing to be in complete opposition to one another,
they both march in the same direction.”
— Paul Proctor
American columnist

Spotting a red:

“How do you tell a Communist?
Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist?
It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
— Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
Source: Remarks in Arlington, Virginia, September 25, 1987

Some of FDR’s best friends?

Yes, the best, and nothing to be ashamed of.

Karl Marx on progressive income taxation

Loved it. Essential to his goals.

Illinois Blues: A new heroine by name of Foxx

An Illinois Blues moment here: Dem State’s Attorney candidate Kim Foxx has been working for a firm that has “often sued” the county and has given her $18,500 to help her get elected, Chi Trib reported Sunday.

How better to illustrate the Illinois Ruling Party way of doing things? She’s been doing it for the year since she left County Board President Preckwinkle’s office — clearly, we may say, with intent to be the prosecutor representing the county.

Made no never-mind. She plugged away at helping her colleagues with other work while they squeezed cash — $6 million here, $3 million there, etc. — out of the very county which in months she will be working for.

Not a problem, she said. She promised her justice would be blind. “No conflict,” she decreed.

The $6-million case was argued by Larry Rogers Jr., a $100,000-a-year man at the county Board of Review, which rules on property tax appeals. He was elected to that (side?) job — as a candidate of the Ruling Party, needless to say.

He clammed up when taking a call from a reporter.

Asked whether she was working in any capacity at his law firm, Rogers said, “What now?” Then he said he had another call to take, adding that he would call a reporter back before hanging up. Rogers did not call back and did not return subsequent phone messages left for him.

I love that. Any other context, it’s called arrogance.

It’s how it’s done, however.

Foxx did her denials and promises Saturday after a union meeting where she spoke, privately.

Union spokesman Graeme Zielinski had advised the rally was open to the press but denied a reporter entry to the event. Asked whether Foxx was addressing the union workers as scheduled, Zielinski said Foxx would not be attending.

About 15 minutes later, campaign spokesman Robert Foley emerged from the Pilsen union hall to say Foxx was, in fact, inside giving a speech and would answer questions about her consulting work.

She’s the people’s choice, the people of blue, blue Illinois, which has the blues.

New ball game, folks.

It’s the candidate’s health, stupid.

Campaign dismisses it.

But the issue is that Clinton kept reporters totally in the dark for 90 minutes after her abrupt departure from the 9/11 memorial service for a health-related matter.

No reporter was allowed to follow her. (Clinton has resisted a protective pool for coverage because Donald Trump refuses to participate in one.)

This is, yet again, the Clinton campaign asking everyone to just trust it. She got overheated! But she’s fine now!

A week ago, this fellow dismissed the issue, he says. No more.