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And I would not want to emphaisise the commonalities with the Catholic Church because that would immediately turn off many who might otherwise be part of the audience. In the USA and in Canada there really is no significant Communist Party, so emphaiszing the avidity with which those fronting for the looters display for doing business and transferring manufacturing to China, and the miserable conditions under which that labor is provided, along with noting the hostility which the interests of US workers are viewed only harms those which we want to harm.

Another pillar which could buttress a portrait of these looter elites as wannabe totalitarians is the avidity with which many of the older families among them, such as the Bushes, the Fords, the Rockefellers, etc. embraced and did business with the Third Reich and the extent to which they admired Hitler for how effectively he dealt with labor protests. Totalitarianism is about operational methods and mores. It can espouse left or right ideology with equal fervor and vacuity. Hannah Arendt's work comes to mind.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Jun 21st, 2012 at 02:47:45 PM EST
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