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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 04:42 AM Original message |
Is it fascism yet? |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 04:45 AM Response to Original message |
1. it's the end of the world. Again. |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 04:59 AM Response to Original message |
2. People use anger to create fear, don't take in the anger and let it effect you. |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 05:19 AM Response to Original message |
3. Their Spiral has been comp'd to the point of desperationj....their mode of Negativity has no Place |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 05:42 AM Response to Original message |
4. Bush was faking evangelical stuff... really? |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 05:52 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Yes, that Bush. All the Gog and Magog stuff was for the wingnuts, IMO |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 06:08 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. The call to Jacques Chirac, and it was entirely private... |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 06:11 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. That's why Rumsfeld felt the need to lace Bush's documents with biblical verses? |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 06:13 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Or used his "belief" as an excuse for doing whatever he jolly well felt like doing? n/t |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 06:20 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. That's what Religion does best. n/t |
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steven johnson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 06:20 AM Response to Original message |
9. Mmm Mmm, that GOP Koolade looks mighty tasty |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 08:28 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Hell, even the chicken is angry at Burger King.... |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 08:03 AM Response to Original message |
11. You need a definition for fascism |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 08:18 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. i guess I'm not a reasonable person then. Of course I think your definition is incomplete |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 08:25 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. It's not totalitarian? |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 08:48 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. the mechanisms and infrastucture are indeed in place |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 03:52 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. if we had a totalitarian, authoritarian government, there wouldn't be teabaggers |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 04:23 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Why would a totalitarian government suppress their own supporters? |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 06:00 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. so we have a totalitarian government but you don't think the administration |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 06:18 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. I think you're working very hard to discount who the power brokers are |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 06:46 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. I'm responding in this subthread to a post that defined fascism as |
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Gabi Hayes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 06:57 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. quickly, now: how did Mussolini define fascism? |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-09-09 07:23 AM Response to Reply #30 |
38. Exactly as I defined it |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 06:58 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Okay. Actually, the essay in the OP has two other defs of fascism |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 08:45 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. fascism does not have to be totalitarian |
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GCP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 08:22 AM Response to Original message |
13. I agree with the OP entirely |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
15. Sorta |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
19. Been here. Doing that. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Don't forget to add the word organized |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 04:55 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. Republican congressman questions Obama BC at town hall: |
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AntiFascist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
22. A certain element of fascism is always a threat... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 04:26 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I agree with the author that the most concerning element now in play |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
25. The folks who are being subjected to the growth of Fascism in their mdist, are the last to fully |
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Gabi Hayes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 07:01 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. but but but, it can't happen HERE! |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 07:47 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. Zackly!!!!! |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 07:24 PM Response to Reply #25 |
33. NO. It does not take "much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever"" |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 07:47 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Willfully ignorant.....that's it! |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 07:53 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. As far as I'm concerned |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-09-09 12:42 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Remember Pogo's famous line? |
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