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To: TimF who wrote (334148)	4/19/2007 12:26:59 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577030

"Fascism is close to being a dead idea in the US." As a distinct and self-labeled movement? It has been dead everywhere since WWII. But the concepts and ideas are not. The idea of the unitary executive, for example, is a very fascist concept. Take this one. "Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." All are themes in both Shorty's and Coulter's screeds. community decline and the victim-hood of whites, especially males, is a common theme. The rest applies also. Here is another. "1. a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond reach of traditional solutions; 2. belief one’s group is the victim, justifying any action without legal or moral limits; 3. need for authority by a natural leader above the law, relying on the superiority of his instincts; 4. right of the chosen people to dominate others without legal or moral restraint; 5. fear of foreign `contamination." It is almost as if the author had them in mind. And so on. You'd have to be blind to miss it.