Is America Becoming Fascist?

[Terrance]

Otto, 

It's all word play. No matter your knowledge and proficiency with
idiomatic english it's mostly googleepoop so you can't quite figure it
out unless you subscribe to that counterbashing bullshit "journalism." 


Bush/Rice  is a moralist not a fascist. 

Fascism? Golly, that's easy to say. It's 1984. beware the....the bush
man, the save claw.....


Notice how the author acknowledges that neither  Nixon nor Reagan were
fascist but insists that America is becoming fascist under W Bush. A
contradiction he smoothes over with citations none none has even read
and he probably hasn't either. 


He loads up his article with word play, exaggerated conspiracy innuendo,
and intellectual cant. He's an academic, teaches in an "English"
department and he is talking to a handful of largely and mostly
self-imposed (in comfortable academic exile) irrelevant academic
Lefty's. Thus the jargon of his profession and his obscure references
are no less than a dog-and-pony-show put on for his subscribers who are
mostly smirking post-post-graduates and student sycophants. High-brown
bush bashing is all it amounts too. In the USA the college campus is no
different than the corporations that now fund them.  Find a corner
cubicle and scratch out a study of the some dying language and be sure
to cite Chomsky. Sell it. Dumb it down and provoke. Publish puke and
pablum or perish. 

Skip it Otto, your too smart to get caught in that Saintly snare again. 

The Peace movement is trying to bring in support from across the
political spectrum. We need the fractured Left but I'm not sure we need
their fascist language and their worn out 60s tactics. I'm not surprised
that in  New York City we have not managed to get out the anti-war
message. We have here an older problem than the 60s leftovers, an
ideological Left living in the 1930 while the trades and unions
integrate and read the NY Post.  But is digress and pest. 


Mr. Bush's moralism is more ambitious, sometimes verging on messianic,
when it comes to the world beyond our borders. It is encapsulated in two
bits of
presidential oratory that were widely written off as careless rhetorical
flourishes -
the glib "axis of evil" and the Islam-offending description of America's
"crusade," which the White House later retracted. Read Mr. Bush's lips,
and he seems deeply convinced that America's great project is to combat
evil and implant what he calls "universal values" throughout the world.
Foreign policy is not just about defending oilfields. 

The Soul of George W. Bush 
By BILL KELLER 
March 23, 2002 

http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/03.24G.Bush.Soul.htm