fascism

[Jerky]

Fair enough.

Thanks for indulging me!

YOPJ

> It's a good quote, but what exactly is the relevance 
> of legislation in the colony of Virginia over a
> century before even the Articles of Confederation to
> the question of whether the US is fascistic?
> 
> And even if one were agreeable to the idea that
> seventeenth century Viriginia is an apt stand-in for
> the entire US two and three centuries later, an
> attempt to understand the bizarre and perverse
> intermingling of economics and pathology that
> characterize white attitudes toward blacks in the
> American south is thwarted rather than aided simply by
> slapping the word "fascism" on it.
> 
> It's Gresham's law applied to language:  the word has
> fallen prey to inflation.