Fundmental Fascism-- The Too Far Right

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Thursday May 08, 2014 · 2:17 PM PDT

2014/05/08 · 14:17

Voices from the past continue to haunt us, to this day, reminding, those of us who care to review, of the results of not listening to those who came before; I must now apologize to my parents. Abraham Lincoln’s attempt at alerting about the potential power of corporations, Arthur Miller’s hints of the chasm always threatening to engulf us, and Eisenhower’s concerns regarding the burgeoning military-industrial complex, to name but a few. Our founding fathers’ warnings about the ways our democracy could fail and ways they tried to avert those have been ignored by those, too many, who would forego education for more immediate physical pleasures, or too prone to be accepted, as gospel truth, by these same intellectual crickets, the calculated, deceitful, misinterpretations of such by politicians.

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Thursday May 08, 2014 · 2:13 PM PDT

2014/05/08 · 14:13

Reading anew, the work of Arthur Miller, The Crucible, I am amazed at how my perspective has changed with age. The continuing slide farther to the right of nearly half of America, since at least the first Reagan administration, has again revealed the great dividing gulf that the author explored in The Crucible. Utilizing the Salem witch-hunts of the seventeenth century as, perhaps, an analogy of Hitler's 'Final Solution' and, or, what was even more immediately concerning to Mr. Miller, Joe McCarthy's 'Un-American' threshing machine, the author painted a picture that could have just as well captured the Civil War, the civil rights rebellion of the 1960’s, and, now, the fight to save, and restore, a middle class, that has been all but eliminated by the power elite of this country and threatens our very democracy, and liberties.

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