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This is fascism and we should say it clearly - while we can...
spelled out clearly. jude
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...l=emailclassic
By Mark Sumner, Sunday Nov 29, 2015
Sixty million people died in World War II, but fascism won. It didn’t win on the battlefield. It didn’t win right away. It won because the same fears, the same greed, the same hatred that fueled its growth in the first part of the twentieth century never went away. The symbols of fascism became anathema, but the causes … went deep. And gradually, slowly, one step at a time, all those vices became first tolerated, then treated as virtues, and then as the only acceptable view.
Godwin’s Law—the contention that any argument will eventually come round to warnings about Hitler—is twenty-five years old, but for much longer than that, we’ve been taught that the use of that... f-word, is not to be taken seriously. Sure, every government program, new or old, is open to accusations of communism and warnings of a slippery slope toward some failed dictatorship. That’s expected. But to even acknowledge our long, stumbling lurch to the right; the building force of corporate power; the relentless need for war; a police whose power of enforcement is divorced from law; a preening nationalism that rewards the full rights of citizenship only to those who fit an ever-narrower mold… You can’t call it fascism. People will only laugh.
It was French poet Charles Baudelaire who said “the finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist." The finest trick of the modern fascist? The same. Nothing is ever fascist. It’s just “very conservative.” And this week’s very conservative, is next weeks middle of the road.
After all, what politician could be taken seriously who didn’t accept the completely middle of the road position that we should value the safety of the populace over the preservation of rights? Forget that oath. The top job of the president is to keep the American public safe, no matter what that takes.It looks like the American people are waking up. They know that electing a Commander-in-Chief to keep America safe, so that we remain free, is what the 2016 election is all about.
Even when doing that job means abandoning families left destitute by war.“Republicans and Democrats came together in a veto-proof majority to respond to the will of the American people and do our primary job to keep them safe,” said Representative Richard Hudson of North Carolina, a Republican, who co-sponsored the bill with Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul of Texas.
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Re: This is fascism and we should say it clearly - while we can...
Trump is a pathetic, right-wing, capitalist, racist, misogynist, fascist pig.
Re: This is fascism and we should say it clearly - while we can...
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Trump is a pathetic, right-wing, capitalist, racist, misogynist, fascist pig.
Look at the bright side. He is single-handedly destroying the Republican Party.
Re: This is fascism and we should say it clearly - while we can...
I agree 100%. We should be grateful to Trump!
It would be awesome if the Republican Party did not return to the White House for the next 20 or 30 years, at least.
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Look at the bright side. He is single-handedly destroying the Republican Party.
