Memo to the GOP: We found the word "fascism" first - and it looks like YOU

[derby378]

This whole "Islamofascist" nonsense is just a bunch of sleight-of-hand and misdirection to keep the American public from noticing the building blocks of fascism being laid in our own government. Are you phone calls being monitored? Has your orange juice been stripped out of your hands at the airport? Is the government in bed with corporations instead of governing them with the same laws that apply to the rest of us? Take a good, long look at what we're becoming and try to tell me that fascism is not the end result.

[HereSince1628]

1. Well, that's the whole idea, pot calls kettle black so no one will

notice.

[liberaldemocrat7]

7. You mean REPUBLOFASCISM?

[Ganja Ninja]

2. Fascism is and has always been a right wing thing. n/t

[derby378]

9. That is so true - from the Roman Empire right up to the PNAC

I might like Marcus Aurelius on a personal level and wouldn't mind having a beer with him while we discuss philosophy, but it's probably best that he was never an American President.

[EFerrari]

3. It's a little scary now that they are actually using the word

because you can always tell what they're up to via their projection. :(

[xultar]

4. Fuckin-A!!!

[Ian_rd]

5. READ THIS!! (A discussion of the word "fascism" by Thom Hatmann)

In another thread, Hootinholler called the GOP's use of fascism a "preemptive" redefinition by the GOP in an attempt to prevent themselves from this appropriate label. I think this hits it.

Read this:

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0828-23.htm

Edit: The above linked article by Hartmann is an excellent disection of the GOP's use of "fascism" and the actual historical meaning of the word. It's worth your time.

[DemonFighterLives]

6. Yes of course- Fascists are US

Well not me or anyone here, but the neocons.
dubby could hardly pronounce it for all the s's -Islamo Facists'ss.
Try to enunciate there dubya :rofl:

Cheney's speech was just hateful - I don't know if he used the term since I didn't hear the whole newspeak.
:dem:

[PuraVidaDreamin]

8. I like 'Corporate Fascists'

and Bush-Republican Fascists