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To: RetiredNow who wrote (361946)	12/9/2007 12:07:19 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575625

"These neo-cons have no clue what marxism or left-wing politics is, and yet, they use those words as if they knew." It is not the only words or phrases they mis-use. If that was all they did, that would just be annoying. And you could just chalk it all up to them being intellectually dishonest. The thing that concerns me is their insistence on loyalty to Bush as a defining factor. This is playing footsie with fascism. And that is a huge danger to our system. From the wikipedia. Since Mussolini, there have been many conflicting definitions of the term fascism. Former Columbia University Professor Robert O. Paxton has written that: 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." Paxton further defines fascism's essence as: ...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." The thing to note that the neocons match on every point. Their insistence that laws can be violated if the president deems it important is a classical one.