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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (200442)9/7/2012 12:07:38 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541990
 
Again; As a party - or person - you can't be against government, especially a strong centralized government, and be considered fascist since they believe in the strongest of governments. The Tea Party (arguable the most right leaning bunch) doesn't want to go out and rule the world. they want to be left alone without government interference. Think Ayn Rand here.
You and I read the Tea Party movement differently. I see it as largely a nativist movement rather than an ideological, small government movement. Their anti-government sentiment strikes me as opposition to this particular embodiment of government rather than government itself. A sentiment sort of like, those folk who run government are not my sort of people and so I want nothing to do with them; rather than I have a principled opposition to strong government.

If I'm right it moves closer to fascism. Give them a government of their sort of people, and the sentiment would be thrown on its head.
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