Top Ten Signs Your Country May Be Going Fascist

You hint at the complexities of Political solutions but I'll do you better.

Here's John Edwards on the Patriot Act as a candidate in 2003 :

Q: Do you support revision or repeal of the PATRIOT Act?

EDWARDS: I support dramatic revision of the PATRIOT Act. The last thing we should be doing is turning over our privacy, our liberties, our freedom, our constitutional rights to John Ashcroft.

Contrast this to Edward's comments on the Senate Floor in 2001:

Mr. EDWARDS. "Mr. President, I rise in support of S. 1510, the Uniting and Strengthening America Act.
In the aftermath of September 11, we face two difficult and delicate tasks: to strengthen our security in order to prevent future terrorist attacks, and at the same time, to safeguard the individual liberties that make America a beacon of freedom to all the world.
I believe that when the President signs this anti-terrorism legislation into law, we will have achieved those two goals as best we now can."

Here's another example: Nancy Pelosi gleefully called for Rumsfeld's resignation after the public disclosures of torture at Abu Ghraib.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/07/MNG1A6HEGQ1.DTL

Yet Pelosi was one of four key lawmakers who'd been briefed by the CIA on waterboarding ect back in 2002.

As reported by the Washington Post: "Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801664.html

And of course the neo-con leanings of name Senate Dem's like Hillary and Lieberman are legendary. How about this nugget on Diane Feinstein who was an architect of key spying provisions passed by the Senate:

http://littlecountrylost.blogspot.com/2007/12/diane-feinstein-corrupt-war-profiteer.html


Quote from smilingsynic:

Um, your list was about the 10 reasons why Democrats ARE idiots. That's present tense, the 21st century. YOUR words, not mine.

I am not arguing that internment is not fascist. There is no need to start putting words in my mouth.

Why do you assert that FDR was the "most liberal president" in US History when his policies on human rights were so questionable? Certainly FDR expanded the power of the federal government on economic matters, but later presidents such as Lyndon Johnson were far more liberal, supporting FDR's expansion of federal government and supporting civil rights.

The truth is, Republicans were more supportive of civil rights than Democrats until 1948, when Harry Truman ended segregation of the military. Many in the Deep South were so angry of this Democratic betrayal that they broke away, starting their own party, the Dixiecrats, and running Strom Thurmond as a candidate for president (they won several states, btw).

Since 1948, the Democratic Party has become over time the more liberal party on issues of race and ethicity, and Republicans started, especially in the 1960's, to become more conservative on race and ethicity.

People often forget that Republicans were historically strong in New England and weak in the South. Once the parties switched sides on race and ethnicity, the regions switched sides. Now, the most Republican states are Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana--the strongest supporters of segregation and racism. The most llberal states are in New England, and they are the most tolerant on race, ethnicity, gender, and on gay marriage.
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I didn't ask you for an opinion about Pabst. I asked if as President in 1941 whether you'd pick isolationism in Europe or join forces with Stalin and Red Russia.

Since I'm the revisionist and your the great truth please share your view with an explanation. Thank's in advance.



Quote from traderNik:

My views are informed by the repeated, consistent and clear-headed refutations of your historically revisionist claims by commentators from all bands of the ET political spectrum. My views are further informed by my analysis of your statements on these boards regarding your brutal and ignorant racism, sexism, homophobia, and religious hatred, exemplified by your laughably mundane whining about gays and your admission that Adolph Hitler is one of your personal heroes.

I stopped worrying about the particulars a few years back. They are well known.

In you we have the classic example of a bigot - bigoted in all ways, not just in terms of race. Indeed, you are an exemplar for the failure of education in the United States; you're someone with apparently average intelligence who developed these pathological hatreds because you had no guidance.

As I said, your brand of bigotry has some resonance with a certain element here; thus your standing in the ET community, which seems pretty high (but in fact is not that high because the right thinking majority don't bother to express their revulsion at your 'views').

On the positive tip, you did do a nice job of outing that whole VN thing, even if the thread was deleted. That was pretty cool.
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Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:

Since I'm the revisionist and your the great truth
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The contraction of you are is you're, not your.

Good trading to you. Try to avoid picking tops.
 
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