Nice try. Make me. I don’t remember.

We the people…

~Sean

Sounds more like anti-choice clinic bombers to me.

Yep. “Terrorism is something we’ve never seen before; therefore, we cannot work within existing laws limiting the government’s ability to wiretap American citizens!”

2. belief one’s group is the victim, justifying any action without legal or moral limits

Yep. See Karl Rove’s comment above: “They’re after me!”

3. need for authority by a natural leader above the law, relying on the superiority of his instincts

See the right’s blind trust in their benevolent Supreme Leader, George W. Bush, who needs to be above the law in order to protect the American people.

4. right of the chosen people to dominate others without legal or moral restraint

This explains the right’s apparent willingness to commit election fraud in order to maintain power. They’ve been ordained by God, they believe, and therefore any abuse of power is justifiable.

5. fear of foreign `contamination.”

Hence the right’s extreme fears about immigration, and its refusal to even talk with anyone perceived as “the enemy.”

Pretty dead-on, if you ask me.

Paxton further defines fascism’s essence as:

“1. a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond reach of traditional
solutions; 2. belief one’s group is the victim, justifying any action
without legal or moral limits; 3. need for authority by a natural
leader above the law, relying on the superiority of his instincts; 4.
right of the chosen people to dominate others without legal or moral
restraint; 5. fear of foreign `contamination.”

Comment by tony — August 19, 2007 @ 11:58 pm

No, this is definitely the Republican Party of today. Sorry, tony, but you seem to have your terms confused.

this sound more like liberalism

That’s because you are semi-literate, and have no idea what liberalism is. And because you apparently have paid no attention to the behavior of the Republican Party for the past ten years.

Former Columbia University Professor Robert O. Paxton has written that:

“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood 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.”[6]
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this sound more like liberalism

Problem is: without the restrictions of wh life he can make all kinds of noise without wh taking heat.
So his massive distraction machine can now work at full capacity.
Now the sewage he produces doesn’t even need to look like anything.
He can swing away.
And you know he will.
Watch out in the outfied seats there are balls of roveroolala coming at you.
Maybe he can’t get it that far.Messy infield.

I know, M12–the malicious lawbreaking and smear campaigns engineered by Rove are sooooooooooooo boring. It would be so much better if the media would just forget about him and focus on real stories, like Anna Nicole Smith and Lindsay Lohan.

** sigh **

“Nice try, er, I mean, I don’t recall”

whats even worse was he still couldnt get anything better than a D!

they have no fighter planes, no tanks, no battleships, no access to nukes or smallpox, and no army. yet somehow they are a grave threat to our existence. BS. frankly, 9-11 was the worst they could do. if thats the worst they could do, they can’t even outdo one month of american on american firearm fatalties. whether we admit it or not, americans are more more adept at kiling each other than foreigners will ever be.

truth hurts, huh?

“But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
- Hermann Goring. leader of the nazi party.