Naomi Wolf thinks so. Do you?
Climb over the wall.
It could never happen could it? Are things that bad?
The word fascism is bandied about a lot these days. However Wolf in her Guardian article below, lists ten steps to fascism and claims
that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated today in the United States
by Bush and his gang of ghouls. She then systematically explains her argument. This idea is extremely distasteful and abhorrent to many. And I understand that the idea is just too much for some but have a look at the article and tell me what you think.
Article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
The word fascism now seems to be yoked to the Holocaust. Fascism is a political system. And I think that listening to people nowadays you could be forgiven for thinking that the only bad thing that Hitler did was the Holocaust. Fascism was one of the main tools he needed and used to achieve his aims. But Hitler wanted lots of things not just the extermination of the Jewish race. And as Wolf says he was not the first or the last fascist. I often wonder because of the communist threat immediatly after the war, were we never taught to fear fascism enough?? Were we never taught to hate it?? Becasue we needed West Germany back on its feet? And we liked some of the ideas.?
However i digress.
Back to the now.
I contend that we have underestimated this administrations intelligence from the get go. And we continue to over-estimate their credentials as humans. They are distant relatives of the humans i know.
We attribute human motives to them because we think that they are well meaning but just wrong.
I believe they are evil.
We believe that they went to Iraq because they believed that it had weapons.
I believe they went to Iraq to redistribute that middle class wealth upwards and to use some of that ordinance.
We believe that they are just like us.
But i believe that they are not. They are a plague. With their worm tongues. Their diseased language. They are preparing the ground for a fundamental shift away from the rights and benefits won over the last two hundred years.
They believe nothing. They only desire total power.
When do we wake up and realise that?
They kill us, the civilians. They imprison us, the civilians. They torture us, the civilians. They impoverish us, the civilians. They lie to us, the civilians.
They have spilt blood over the whole of the western world in their modern day capitalist crusade.
This is not democracy anymore.
Previous article about similar subject.
But much better.
http://www.dailykos.com/...