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Well, yes, there's that, although homocidal fascists are still pretty rare, even in America.

Which is why progressives need to be prepared, and accept what's coming and plan for it instead of sticking collecitve heads in the sand. Because sometimes you end up with a fascist, and sometimes you end up with a progressive, and sometimes you get a Roosevelt, a rich guy who means well but doesn't finish the job.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Thu Nov 8th, 2007 at 11:28:16 AM EST
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homocidal fascists are still pretty rare, even in America

How about Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rice, Rumsfeld, Perle, Prince, half of Congress ...

I don't think they are rare. Not in the places that matter anyway. Or do I have a selection bias here ?

Pierre

by Pierre on Thu Nov 8th, 2007 at 11:36:50 AM EST
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Nah, those guys are just symptoms, not the disease. Their kind of criminal is dime a dozen, found primarily in the types of predatory economic systems which the US has reverted to over the past few decades.

Go back a century and you'll find plenty of their kind, all over Europe and in the Americas too.

Bad, but not the same thing.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Thu Nov 8th, 2007 at 11:41:51 AM EST
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give the war enough time to work up a good head of dolchstosslegende and the economy a weimaresque slump, and you'll have the kind of conditions where they get the popular support they need to rise to the top.

of course, a million plus dead in iraq isn't an insignificant number either, even if they've been hesitant to apply those methods at home to date.

by wu ming on Fri Nov 9th, 2007 at 04:30:28 AM EST
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