the movement toward fascism, hatred of anyone who disagrees with you and the hateful comments right wing readers have spewed at him. This article and its links should be required reading. Why is it that the insatiable rich can convince right wing American working people that a more egalitarian system of medical care is an assault on their freedom when it's actually saving them money and not harming their medical care?
The historian Robert Paxton, who studied Europe during World War II, defined fascism as “a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy, but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
Steve Almond at the Rumpus.
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Disturbing how much hate they have.
It's the gun laws/lack of. We live in a rural county, and I understand the need for a rifle, but not for automatic weapons. Their only use is killing people.
Totally agree w/ both of you.
It's not like anyone's house is going to be besieged by an army of attackers. One rabid raccoon, maybe.
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