Live Free or Die

Glenn Beck has a new documentary about the origins of totalitarianism,  and its attendant crimes committed during the 20th century under the guise of progressivism. One of the real strengths of his program is the exploration of the events of history and the consequences of  these ideas, in the shaping of modern America.  Much of the focus has been with the progressivism of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt and how policies championed by them have led to the centralization of power. While it is important to shine the light on these administrations, it would also be instructive to cast our gaze to the Lincoln administration during the WBTS. It was, of course, Abraham Lincoln who championed an indivisible union divested of state autonomy.  This gave rise to the modern consolidated state.While I do not intend to make comparisons between Hitler and Lincoln, it is however instructive to compare the views of both in regards to the union   It might surprise some to learn that Hitler found much to like in Lincolns version of the American union. In regards to the union Hitler stated:

 "The individual states of the American Union...could not have possessed any state sovereignty of their own. For it was not these states that formed the Union, on the contrary it was the Union which formed a great part of such so-called states."

  So, perhaps it it is time to look back a little further to the 19th century for the origins of American nationalism, and the birth of the American Caesar.