[lbo-talk] Dennis Perrin on the ecstasy of the Dems

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Jan 4 08:46:59 PST 2008


Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>
> And it's all true.
>
> Today at work, the Obama supporters in my midst (and suddenly they're
> everywhere, like bacteria) are all but back flipping up and down the
> hallways in post everything glee. One excited Obama-ite walked up to
> me and shouted: "The future has arrived!"
>
> This is a sentence no one should ever use - even if "the future" has,
> in fact arrived. Although, on second thought, she may be onto
> something. Obama's post-everything, togetherness-via-neoliberalism
> message of ambiguously described tommorowhood may indeed be the next
> phase of American power politics.

Now THIS is what an American Fascist Movement would look like! I'm NOT calling Obama a fascist, I'm only saying that this is what such a movement would LOOK like. If an actual fascist leader comes along, he will look far more like Obama than like Bush.

And one more thought on fascism. Fascism NEVER "creeps." "Creeping fascism" is an oxymoron. Fascism LEAPS.

Carrol



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