John Thornton wrote: Listing political groups that oppose Bush as possible terrorist groups and placing names of people who oppose Bush on No-Fly lists is dangerously close to such behaviour. It isn't "officially fascism" unless the head of the DLC is assassinated?
1) So if it's bad it's fascist. We can throw out all our other terms of approbation and just it along with "Fascist!" Alexander of Macedon was fascist. Macheath the highwayman was fascist. Colley Cibber wrote bad poetry. He was a fascist. Everything except thou and I is fascist, and sometimes I have doubts about you.
2) This is a blatant whitewashing of 500 years of capitalist exploitation and oppression. All that time and it wasn't capitalism. It wasn't imperialism. It wasn't colonialism. Capitalism is good. IMperialism is good. We just have to get rid of fascism and we can enjoy a capitalist heaven for the rest of time.
3) Mammals are rabbits. Therefore tigers and rhesus monkeys are rabbits.
4) No one is going to listen to critiques of Bush if those critiques are introduced with the labeel "fascist." It is obvious that Bush is a dangerous man, and that large sectors of his supporters are dangerous. It is equally obvious that he is not a fascist, and you can yell fascist until in the old saying the cows come home and no one is going to pay a fucking bit of attention to you, and while you are providing this smokescreen for the real threats (which Bush and his allies are) to decency and even bourgeois democracy in the u.s. a long night of oppression is going to take over, because the friends of freedom got more personal satisfaction out of shrieking fascist than they would have gotten by doing some serious thinking about the actualities of the present.
5) Let me repeat. Every time you call Bush a fascist you are weakening us in the fight against totalitarianism in this nation, because the real threats will come in a different form.
Carrol