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

shag shag at cleandraws.com
Tue Nov 4 09:22:40 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

oh! that's normal. socialist already == fascist. that is why any conservative mushroom worth his salt will trot out the name of the nazi party as proof positive that a supposed distinction between the two is a fiction.



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