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lots of people liked fascism the last time out.
people who were worried about economic instability, about the status of the Nation. rather than look at the situation squarely--only communists do that---the problem was Resolve which can only be achieved through total mobilization, the leaking of military values into everything, becoming intertwined with psuedo-religious discourse about the Nation itself. this Resolve required an Enemy, preferably one that was not quite locatable...it worked out quite well for these folk..they liked fascism then.
of course, it was easier to like it before the story unfolded.
so we have learned from the past:
this time, folk like a parallel type of ideological "reality"
but they do not like the word fascism.
therefore, bushworld is totally other than fascism-lite.
because we do not like the name.
q.e.d.
curiously, i agree that the bush=hitler equation is not helpful.
it is too inflammatory: it is not quite accurate.
but i do not think that you can erase the underlying matter--whether and how bushworld resembles a kind of fascism--by objecting to the superficial equation of bush with hitler.
as for time magazine.....what is there to say, really?
it is time magazine.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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