Chuck Grimes wrote:
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> But I want to ask you to explain, why you don't think a fascist threat
> comes from the Bush administration? I am serious. In my view they are
> not just horrid or icky, they are dangerous. (offlist if you want. I
> am not interested in starting a flame war or a spin-off topic.)
On List. What is wrong with spin-off topics. Most of our really good
conversations have come from spin-offs.
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> The Bush administration has driven the country straight down the road
> to ...
... to an authoritarian state of a species we do not have a name for. It is extremely dangerous to blur the reality by shouting "fascist." There is very little about the Bush Administration that resembles fascism. The _effect_ on us might be very similar, but the ultimate effect of cyanide and a bullet in the head is also the same, but one protects against those two dangers in quite different ways.
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