Since Bushies opened fascist door, fill in blank: Bushies are______nazis

[yurbud]

or ___________fascists, Hitlers, etc.

Some of my favorites;

Hillbilly Hitlers (inspired by Mayberry Machivellis)

Corporate Suit Nazis

and of course a popular choice here: Christofascist (though I think that is really the hard candy shell that covers the corporate chocolate inside).

[eleny]

1. American

[UTUSN]

2. Corrupto-Nazi-oh-s n/t

[C_U_L8R]

3. Texas Totalitarians

Oil Tyrants
Prep School Pissants
Torture Merchants
RepubliCANTS
Banana Republicans
Penis Envy Publicans
The Reagan Administration, Part 2

[yurbud]

5. Texas Totalitarians fits my favorite name for Bush himself: Texas Tard

[yurbud]

6. An amendment to Reagan admin 2:

This is the Reagan administration:



This is the Reagan administration run by crack-addled fascist monkeys:



with guns




Any questions? (the gun will answer them)

[madrchsod]

4. wannabe

they ain`t close to hitler and his crew

[yurbud]

7. yep--they lack the fashion sense--bush can't even dress himself (PIC)

http://fascarto.blogspot.com/2005/09/hes-no-hitler.html

[FogerRox]

8. I will be too literal

They are not Nazis. Corporatists, fascists, Industrials who advocate a fuedal system, sure. Nazis, not really.

Scumbag em effers, sure. Evil SOB baasturds, sure.


LOL.

[yurbud]

9. We should make up a "New Feudalism" ad campaign for them.

[AntiFascist]

10. I like the term "theo-cons"...it sounds good on a couple of levels n/t

[yurbud]

11. star chamber of commerce

[yurbud]

12. I light of Bush's fascination with flatulence: fart nazis

[RedStateShame]

13. "supporting people who made a lot of money off the"

[yurbud]

14. Gene Rayburn would be proud

[Donald Ian Rankin]

15. My choice would be "not".

Conflating an ideology based on the supremacy of the state with one dedicated to dismantling the state support strikes me as foolish. Comparing Bush with Hitler does no-one except the Republicans any good.

[loyalsister]

16. Except......

The very first step that the leadership took in Nazi Germany was to dismantle state support.

One step to their genocide program was to withdraw public assistance for health care. The state should not support "life unworthy of life."

The next step was to institutionalize disabled and ill, and perfect the gas chamber in the name of mercy killing.

They have disdain for any draw on state funds in common, because both camps would agree that the best way to spend state money is on war, weaponry and (in our case private military conractors) for strategic purposes.

An awareness of similarities is informative.
Only a very naive person would deny the similarity between the relationships between 9\11 and Iraq and the Reichstag fire and subsequent invasion of Poland.
Keeping ourselves aware of the similarities combined with other contextual similarities like propaganda gives us historical point of reference for how people may respond.

[yurbud]

17. Like all low rent fascists in Third World, destroy safety net EXCEPT...

police, military, and rewarding cronies, all of which keep them in power.

[yurbud]

18. one way they're not: NOT making friends in military or intel services

ignoring military advice and threatening to replace generals with civilians appointees is not the way to get them to gun down your domestic enemies when things get tight.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

19. Actually, that's not incompatible with fascism:

Several of Hitler's generals, including Rommel, plotted against him, and some tried to kill him. Pissing off the heads of your armed forces is something fairly typical of Fascism; however, so is having them executed, which is another obvious difference between Bush and fascists.

[yurbud]

21. yeah, he just forces them to retire and replaces them with

civilians and mercenaries.

Do you think the Bushies are restrained by morality or what they think they can get away with?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

22. I'd say "principles" rather than "morality".

The distinction being that any arbitrary behavioral code is "principles", whereas morality is a unique such code based on making other people's lives better.

I suspect that Bush has strongly-held principles based around "personal freedom", which he interprets to mean freedom from taxation and to some extent freedom from gun control, conservative Christianity, support for a traditional model of the family with 2.4 neatly scrubbed children, a properly submissive mother and a father who hunts his own mammoths, American supremacy (it's striking that even liberals in America use "American" and "UnAmerican" as synonyms for "good" and "bad") and the like.

I think there are a lot of things he could get away with that he wouldn't do because of these principles; I don't think they have very much to do with morality.

[yurbud]

23. I would say Bush's definition of freedom stops closer to your first point

freedom from taxes, regulations, labor laws, or any treaties that hinder the free pursuit of corporate profits.

[RangerSmith]

20. oh, I don't know...

For many it places a level on their hatred and as anybody who has watched both sides knows, hate is a very important tool when it comes to manipulation of the masses.

[hootinholler]

24. I'll take Samuel L Jackson for 200 Alex.

MotherFucking

:evilgrin:
-Hoot