The estimable National Review writer Jonah Goldberg reveals many fascinating tid-bits and facts about the origins of today's version of "liberalism" in his New York Times Best Selling book, Liberal Fascism. I have to admit that my very hectic schedule has greatly limited the time I spend reading paper books. But another thing that has slowed down my completion of the book is the number of times that interesting and thought provoking ideas led me to do more research online, before I resumed reading. Jonah's book is impecably sourced so it was no surprise that he was able to teach me something that no Conservative I know was able to describe to me. What is the origin of Liberals calling Conservatives "fascists"?

On page 227 in the chapter called From Kennedy's Myth to Johnson's Dream, Jonah Goldberg lifts the fail to uncover the truth:

A handful of immensely influential Marxist theorists, mostly Germans from the so-called Frankfurt School (transplanted to Columbia University beginning in the 1930s), married psychology and Marxism to provide a new vocabulary for liberalism. These the-orists--led by Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse--tried to explain why fascism had been more popular than communism in much of Europe. Borrowing from Freud and Jung, the Frankfurt School described Nazism and Fascism as forms of mass psychosis. That was plausible enough, but their analy-sis also held that since Marxism was objectively superior to its alter-natives, the masses, the bourgeoisie, and anyone else who disagreed with them had to be, quite literally, mad.

Adorno was the lead author of The Authoritarian Personality, published in 1950. The book presented evidence that people holding "conservative" views scored higher on the so-called F-Scale (F for "Fascism") and were hence in dire need of therapy. The political sci-entist Herbert McClosky likewise diagnosed conservatives as a pre-fascist "personality type" comprising mostly "the uninformed, the poorly educated, and... the less intelligent." (Lionel Trilling fa-mously reduced conservatism to a series of "irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.") For McClosky, Adorno, and estab-lishment liberals generally, conservatism was at best the human face of the madness of Nazi-style fascism.

Got that? Conservaives are stupid and thier existance is directly desended from the Nazis. Now you know that you are stupid and the ideological relative of Adolf Hitler. Go buy Jonah's book if you want to learn more.