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To be sure, but we're closer to that now than we were five years ago, and were closer to it in the '50s than we are now.
It's a relative thing. I'm not sounding any alarms here, like Ted seems to be.
Well, if you define some way to measure it, and fascism is on one end of this scale, our distance from that point on the scale may change from year to year, but it doesn't change the fact that we are on the opposite end of the scale.
Another thing is that when you take these recent evils and threats to America, from communism, nazism, fascism, to the current Islamofascists, if you look at these pathetic ideologies, they are mostly wrong, but not 100% wrong on 100% of the issues. So if one of these *isms did something well, and we manage to do better at the same measure, does it mean we are closer to this particular *ism? Well, I guess so, but as long as it is not one of the evil things they did, what's the cause of alarm? If the trains run on time, have we become fascist?
Joe |
