Fascist America

[David Morris]

>From the Hullabaloo blog:

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This Ain't Yer Grandpa's Democracy

by tristero

Well. Now what?

The first thing to do is apparently quite controversial, why, I have
no idea. But it is imperative that we fully recognize how seriously
godawful the situation is.

I'll say it again: Americans are living in a fascist state. Don't like
the word "fascism?" Neither do I. So what? It's ludicrous to call the
gutting of habeas corpus, etc, etc, by near unanimous consent merely
"authoritarian."* We are living in a fascist state.

Some commenters in the post below said I am being too discouraging.
Hardly. This country's government has been transformed and is no
longer recognizable as a working democracy. That's simply a fact and
we better accept it.

Because when you're dealing with fascism, "We can beat this, people if
we just fight harder!" is naive win-one-for-the-Gipper fantasy-land.
It's gonna get a lot worse than it is now before it gets better. We're
gonna be lucky if more of us don't end up "persons of interest" to the
Bush administration. Remember, if you're not with Bush, you're
objectively pro-terrorist and I can't tell you how many times when
commenting on rightwing blogs I've been accused of "aiding and
abetting" the terrorists.