Fascist America

[rich]

I think this is too much--America is not a fascist state (yet). come on
foax, bush is not hitler--he is not up to the task as president, is
influenced too much by cheney and rumsfeld, has made some really awful
policy choices but geez, fascists?

we are fighting a fascist-like foe and we are heading down a slippery slope
from benign paternalism into who knows what.

rich


On 9/29/06, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From the Hullabaloo blog:
>
> http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
>
> 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.
>
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