Thomas Sowell

Beck: “Thomas, I said two years ago, I said look, they’re going to go for the car companies and the airlines and for the energy industry. They’re going to go for the financial industry. There was like four of them that I lined up, and I said we’re going down this fascist road.”

I’m glad people are waking up to the reality.

” I don’t know why people aren’t marching in front of the Capitol or surrounding the Capitol with their lawn chairs and just saying you ain’t leaving until you change all this nonsense. What’s it going to take?”

SOWELL: Well to do that, they would have to sink. And this whole personality cult has caught on in such a way that it is going to be a while before people start thinking. It is a question of how big of a calamity is it going to take before they snap out of it.

clipped from www.foxnews.com This is a rush transcript from “Glenn Beck,” May 27, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Thomas, welcome back to the program, sir. BECK: So let me start with that question — are we are still a capitalist country? SOWELL: Oh, heavens. Partially. We’re not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell people how to run the businesses. So that’s the route we seem to be going. • Video: Watch Beck’s interview SOWELL: The private people still own the businesses but the politicians tell them what to do. BECK: Right, but isn’t that — I’m trying to remember, that’s — SOWELL: That’s fascism. BECK: Yes, I was going to say, I knew it was a bad one. And I was going to say, I think that’s fascism. Yeah. OK. Well you’re a crazy lunatic. Why would you say we’re going down a fascist road?