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Funny you mention that....are you familiar with this book?
>>http://www.amazon.com/Ominous-Parallels-Brilliant-parallels-pre-Hitler/dp/0452011175/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244178281&sr=8-1
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>>(Written by Ayn Rand's legal heir)>>
>>I haven't read it yet - thanks for the link. The fact that we are on the road to fascism has been pretty obvious to me for quite a while now.
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>I would say you've just come out of the most fascist leaning administration your country has ever had.
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>From the wiki entry
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>Fascism comprises a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology[1][2][3][4] and a corporatist economic ideology.[5] Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state.[6] Fascists believe that nations and/or races are in perpetual conflict whereby only the strong can survive by being healthy, vital, and by asserting themselves in combat against the weak.[7] Fascist governments forbid and suppress criticism and opposition to the government and the fascist movement.[8]
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>sounds like the discredited republicansim of Bush/Cheney to me.
If you look at history closely you'll see the closest the US ever came to fascism was the administration of Woodrow Wilson and the Progressives. ( the wikipedia entry tends to blur fascsim with policies that were more characteristic of German National Socialism than classic fascism )
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