As a clarification, fascism doesn't have a monopoly on the employment of totalitarianism. Stalin, for example, wasn't a fascist, though you could say the end result was virtually the same.
And though George W. Bush isn't technically a fascist, he is, at least, a right-wing, intolerant, corporatist leader whose aims include the degradation of balanced power. In other words, he isn't a fascist....yet.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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