3) The reason they’ve settled on accusing the left of fascism now is that the RePugniScums are exactly that! To accuse their enemy of being something different would ENCOURAGE DEBATE!!!!

It requires an impressive amount of doublethink to pull off, because their audience of Nascar knuckle-draggers need to be outraged that Obama is a fascist while at the same time not understanding what fascism actually IS.

So all the countries that have socialized health care are fascist???? Canada, England , France, Italy , Germany etc.

So all the countries that put its citezions before corporations are fascists??????

I truly feel bad for the American people however, it’s time to educate yourselves so you don’t make the same mistake as you did in 2000 and 04.

Stay out of touch, and this is what you get!!!

If pseudo-conservatives had it their way, with no opposition, we would be living in their fascist world…and we are already close to it, but the progressives are fighting back this time around. Thank God for the founding father’s and their wisdom to see far ahead.

Obama’s rightwing critics better hope for their sake that he’s not as cunning, deceitful and manipulative as they’ve been claiming, especially since he’ll inherit all those unchecked, imperial powers idiot traitors like Lord’s cheered for when they’re used by Bush Jr.

And I’ve been saying the same thing as pbg since the FISA outrage about two weeks ago.

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pbg Says:

He actually has a real fear, in that The Bush-Cheney junta has created a monstrous secretive governmental monster, secretive, arbitrary, with vast power and vaster claims to power, all justified and locked up tight.
And if Barack Obama steps into the Oval Office, declares that a couple thousand neoconservatives are giving aid and comfort to the terrorists, secretly arrest them and send them to Syria–who could stop him? They themselves demolished all the protections–and when it happens to them, it’s fascism.

(Mind you, I don’t really trust Barack Obama enough to give him the One Ring, either. Checks and balances–and the Bill of Rights–must be restored.)

I agree with that last point, although I will add that if the Bushtards don’t help roll back these powers, NOW, so W can’t use them anymore, then they have no logical right to whine or complain when it’s their turn under the terrorist/warrantless spying microscope.

Q U E S T I O N:
Where is there to lead when we are already there?

Laurence Britt on Fascism’s 14 Defined Characteristics:

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause.
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism.
5. Rampant sexism.
6. A controlled mass media.
7. Obsession with national security.
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together.
9. Power of corporations protected.
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated.
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts.
12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.
14. Fraudulent elections.

An Examination of Bush FascismTj Templeton, running for State Representative of Iowa

The Warning Signs(with links)
Tj Templeton, running for State Representative of Iowa

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Apparently, Obama’s greatest sins are that he became a community organizer instead of an entrepreneur, he believes the global warming evidence, and a couple of his staff members asked a couple of women wearing hijabs to move out of camera view at a rally (for which Obama apologized). Oh, and he signed, ALONG WITH 40 OTHER SENATORS, a letter condemning Rush Limbaugh’s speaking of “phony soldiers”.

From the community organizer thing, Lord manages to spin this into “Obama is going to take away free markets.”

From Obama’s position on global warming (a position shared by a great many people, including the vast majority of climatologists and other scientists), Lord manages to twist this into “Obama is taking away your SUV, jacking up your gas prices, and dictating what temperature you can set your thermostat.”

From the women in hijabs thing, Lord seems to be convinced that Obama wants to ban hijabs. Obama not only doesn’t want to ban hijabs, he didn’t even want to ban these women from standing behind him. Of course this doesn’t stop Lord from going down a long list of things Obama wants to “ban” — smoking, guns, and heaven knows what else. All with probably as much or less evidence than the hijab incident.

And finally, a letter to Rush Limbaugh protesting his calling our troops “phony soldiers” signed by 41 senators has morphed into “Obama wants to kick Limbaugh off the air.” Of course, this WOULD make the airwaves a lot saner, but Obama never said, nor intended, any such thing.

Pure projection. And chutzpah. But this is hardly a masterpiece of journalism to be savored by the masses. It’s a hit piece in a wingnut site intended to be pap for the sock puppets.

The word is fascism.

The word is idiot. Bush’s right wing, unitary executive powers are far closer to fascism than anything we’ve experienced in this country so far, including McCarthyism.

http://progressiveworldreview.com

Buscism seems like much more of a problem around here lately.