Fascism is creepy
Common Dreams
by Stacey Warde
04/15/08
For nearly eight years, I’ve tried without success to describe the radical shift that has taken place in our government. Each time I’ve approached the task, I’ve had to throw up my hands in frustration because the only model that makes sense to me is the one called fascism. But that word doesn’t go over too well in polite conversation. It evokes horrors too horrible to imagine. The reality, however, is that fascism isn’t just about jackbooted thugs and state-sponsored industry built on slavery and death to one’s enemies. The danger of fascism is its seemingly benign mechanisms of control - fear, conformity, the state’s intermingling with religion and corporate enterprise - for keeping a populace in check, for making its people feel content with the way things are and never quick to protest occasional violations of human rights and infringements on their or another’s liberties...
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/15/8315/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fascism
by Stacey Warde
04/15/08
For nearly eight years, I’ve tried without success to describe the radical shift that has taken place in our government. Each time I’ve approached the task, I’ve had to throw up my hands in frustration because the only model that makes sense to me is the one called fascism. But that word doesn’t go over too well in polite conversation. It evokes horrors too horrible to imagine. The reality, however, is that fascism isn’t just about jackbooted thugs and state-sponsored industry built on slavery and death to one’s enemies. The danger of fascism is its seemingly benign mechanisms of control - fear, conformity, the state’s intermingling with religion and corporate enterprise - for keeping a populace in check, for making its people feel content with the way things are and never quick to protest occasional violations of human rights and infringements on their or another’s liberties...
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/15/8315/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fascism
rudkla - 16. Apr, 10:26
