For the most part, these words have been kept to the lunatic fringe of the politcal spectrum, but are now talked about frequently on MSM news shows and radio programs. I am talking about words like FACISM and DICTATORSHIP. I attempt to analyze why these words are being used today when evidence shows that they have no standing in the world of reality.
What do these words bring to mind? For most people, they bring to mind people like Mussolini, Hitler and regimes that use the military to overthrow civilian rule. A Dictatorship is a governement ruled by one-person. There is absolutely no evidence to support that this country is on any type or Road to Facism. IN matter of fact, no evidence has been presented to support that except for the words themselves with no confrontation by the news media. The current President has done nothing to subvert the rule of law as spelled out in the Constitution.
Why are these words being used today? For the past eight years with a different President, even going back decades these words have been used in rare instances. However, today, the MSM has accepted these words without questioning the person uttering them. There are two possible answers to this question.
The words are used for the author or spokeperson's own personal gain. In other words, to improve their standing among their piers or their own tv/radio ratings. By using these words, they strive to increase their audience size by not only attracting viewers that agree with them but others who stop and watch for curiosity (like watching an accident alongside the road).
There is another, more sinister reason, why many of these words are being used and that is their own craving for power together with pure ideological hatred of the other side. Rush Limbaugh and others have said that they want the President to fail, but wishing him to fail won't work on its own, other methods have to be used. These methods include invoking fear that a dictatorship is occuring. By using these words they seek to inspire others. This is pure unadulterated hate against the other party with a voracious appetite to tear down any compromise or any sense of partnership that diferering opinions might offer. But, by using such extreme rhetoric, these people put their own credibility in doubt and increasingly these preachers of hate and fear preach only to their choirs. Any converted individuals will be few and far between... However, individuals with a prestigious titles as "Former Speaker of the House" Gingrich was not confronted when he spoke of this. The MSM let him speak without discounting or confronting what he is saying as total bullcrap.
What can be done to bring reason to the forefront?
If the MSM continues to ignore the blatent words used without question, the progressive community has the duty to speak out and confront them as they have done in the past to show country the truth. Blogging and emails have been noticed and acknowledged by Glenn Beck and others. The next step is to boycott companies that back the hate and lies such as those that advertise for these radio and cable programs.