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To: koan who wrote (51732)	8/26/2013 6:38:01 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

And they want to replace it with a sort of fascism i.e. rule by the rich. That's a fantasy of yours rather than reality. You see their policies are benefiting the rich at the expense of everyone else. That's largely false (its more often benefiting everyone including the rich), but even if it was true, it wouldn't amount to rule by the rich, and rule by the rich isn't the same as fascism. With libertarians (small or big L, the later meaning the party, but I'm focusing on the former) its even further from the truth then Republicans. Liberty is close to the opposite of, and is incompatible with fascism. Its also not true over conservatives (a different group than either libertarians or Republicans, although it has overlap with both, esp. the later). And on top of all that, even if your fantasy of any of those three groups supporting fascism was true, your program If <criticism of government in general or criticism of government actions when the democrats are in control> Then display "Democracy is <great, essential, or some other positive comment about democracy> End. would still be silly, even if many of the people you oppose were fascists (which is mostly to totally nonsense), your harping on it would still be an irrelevance when the subject isn't democracy, or even just when it isn't an attack on democracy. Also its boringly repetitive. You never add any new ideas or insight to it, your practicaly chanting it like a mantra.