Then came the 1960s and '70s, when the government encouraged the FBI and local law enforcement to run wild. The FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program) was initiated in 1956 but its worst excesses were during this period, which also saw many city police forces setting up local "red
To begin with, why would the American ruling class and those who
administer
the U.S. government decide at this time to substitute extreme
authoritarianism and/or fascism for the capitalist democracy that has kept
them in power and riches? Why, when the U.S. is at the apex of its
political,
...for all good
citizens to come to the aid of the lesser-evil candidate of the
Democratic
Party, regardless at times of the anointed one's stunning political
shortcomings.
This has happened a number of times in just the last 40 years,
principally
in the elections of 1964, 1968, 1972, 1980, 1984
If my posts have been going out twice, I don't understand why, but
apologies.
Ralph
Ralph Johansen wrote:
*Charles Brown wrote:
Ralph Johansen :
I'd like to add some takes I have on use of the word fascism. For
Trotsky and others at the time of the German and Italian advent of
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