Dinesh D’SouzaConservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza said Monday that ObamaCare and other government regulatory programs pushed by progressive politicians are fascist attempts to get government to control the private economy.
In a speech on the “Moral Case for Capitalism” Monday at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, D’Souza likened the promotion of government regulations and condemnation of income inequality by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, to the speeches of German Nazi Leader Adolph Hitler, except that Hitler’s condemnation of Jewish people is replaced by Sanders’ criticism of the concentration of wealth for the top 1 percent of income earners.
“American progressivism since the 1930s has evolved far more into fascism, without embracing the label,” D’Souza told several hundred UTC students and others gathered for the 2017 Burkett Miller Distinguished Lecture at the Roland Hayes hall. “If you look at something like ObamaCare [or the Affordable Care Act adopted in 2010], it is not socialism because we still have private hospitals, doctors and insurance companies. But the government tells them what to do – it sets the prices, it determines what health care is covered and what profit margins insurers can make. What we have is state-run capitalism, which is the economic definition of fascism.”
Under the Obama administration, the government increased its regulations and direction of industries ranging from banking to energy to health care. D’Souza said progressives such as Sanders and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who he denounced as Pocahontas for her claim of native American ancestry, “are too lazy to be socialists” to actually produce goods and services demanded by consumers.
“Bernie Sanders wants the guys in Midland Texas to take the oil out of the ground and create all this wealth and then we’ll tell you want you can do with it,” D”Souza said. “This is what happened in Mussolini’s Italy in the 1920s when the government decided to quarterback all the major industries and this is what happened in Nazi Germany when the government was creating and directing the auto industry and the energy industry, and other parts of the economy.