<HTML>In a message dated 4/15/2003 1:48:49 PM Mountain Daylight Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Well, we survived McCarthyism. Is this worse? </BLOCKQUOTE> Objectively, not so far.  But the more extreme the acceptable rhetoric, the further space is forged, however minutely, for incipient fascism. stannard</HTML>