Much has been said about what we are witnessing in America today-- with the rise of the tea party, the anti-immigrant, anti-Latino and Islamophobic responses to an economy in decline, and the like. When they start enacting laws to target specific groups of people, prohibiting houses of worship, entertaining a repeal of the fourteenth amendment and burning religous books, you know you're experiencing creeping fascism. Some believe it couldn't happen here, but other nations said the same thing as their democratic systems withered away. More people must be willing to call it what it is, if we hope to avoid the mistakes of the past.
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