On 10/31/06, Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Certainly, the core Republican base has a cultural profile which has features in common with fascism - even though it is not fascist, and the US ruling class doesn't need to resort to extreme measures to turn it in that direction. But I think the growing social conservatism of the Republican rank and file - coupled with the Patriot Act and the countenance of torture- is what has caused the alarm on the left about incipient "fascism". IMO, the alarm will be justified when the self-conscious white supremacist gangs who want to reproduce the single-party state of the Third Reich begin to win support at all levels of the RP. Right now, they and even the non-fascist evangelical Republicans are regarded as "nuts" by the White House. For the present, the two major parties are more than holding their own against threats from both right and left.
in 2001, didn't the Bush administration (try to?) appoint some woman who showed excessive sympathy with fascism to some office (archivist or something?) also, I think that some of the "older and wiser" members of the "self-conscious white supremacist gangs" have gone legit and have drifted into the GOP. -- Jim Devine / "War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, / The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade, / And, to those royal murderers, whose mean thrones / Are bought by crimes of treachery and gore, / The bread they eat, the staff on which they lean." -- Percy B. Shelley
