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

John Thornton jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jan 4 12:53:58 PST 2008


Carrol Cox wrote:
> 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

I can almost guarantee you an American fascist movement will not be lead by a person of color. The rhetoric of a fascist movement will sound like this but there's nothing new in that idea. Such movements are supposed to sweep you up and feel ecstatic. That is how they succeed. You don't live in the midwest so you missed the ecstasy of W. People were doing backflips and quite ecstatic over W for prez. In many circles the rhetoric was exactly the same. That is another point. An American fascist movement will creep because it will start in the midwest and people on the East coast will be blindsided by it because they believe nothing important happens in the flyover states. They will miss their opportunity to oppose such a movement until it is too late. They will believe it leap because they will ignore it in it's creeping stage.

John Thornton



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