[lbo-talk] Socialist meme gives way to fascist meme

John Thornton jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 4 08:56:58 PST 2008


My next door neighbour's are having new wooden siding put on their home, after removing the old of course. This has been a several weeks long project. Every day I am "entertained" by annoyingly loud right-wing talk radio when I'm outside courtesy of the siding company employees. Todays annoyingly loud right-wing radio is prattling on about the evils of fascism. Yes, the Dems are turning the US, not to socialism as previously thought, but towards fascism! Price controls? Fascism! Government regulations? Fascism! Bailouts? Fascism! Obama is a closeted fascist, not a socialist. It's too weird to even believe. The right is literally throwing around every fear from their playbook as they flail about. They are going nuts over the idea that their ideas are falling our of favor. The idea of Dems as socialists has a nice ring but the idea that far right-wing protofascists want to label the Dems as fascist is fucking hysterical.

John Thornton



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