It's called a dictatorship
with a few remnants of democracy (for instance, the First Amendment,
for the moment, still stands, as evidenced by the fact I am able to
write and post this, but mostly because I am a nobody blogger and
absolutely no threat to the dictatorship--not yet anyway). I'm reading
William L. Shirer's classic, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A
History of Nazi Germany, and believe me the parallels between Hitler
and the Bushcons are staggering. "Perhaps America will one day go
fascist democratically, by popular vote," Shirer told the New York
Times in 1969. Consider that Kerry and Bush are supposedly neck-to-neck
and you get a sense of what Shirer is talking about. It's too bad
Shirer didn't live to see the Rise of the Bushcons. Here's another
great Shirer quote: "I don't understand what there is in the American
character... that almost automatically, even when we have a liberal
President, we support fascist dictatorships or are tolerant towards
them." Now we have a Christian Zionist reactionary president and the
American people are not only "tolerant" of fascism abroad, many of them
enthusiastically support it at home. Like the German people under
Hitler, the American people under Bush have no problem with fascism--so
long as they can drive their SUVs and watch CSI and Law and Order. [more ]
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