> CB: Notice Palin used the term "working class", a no-no in American
> political discourse. The Republicans are getting desperate. That's
> traditional fascistic demogogy since Mussolini :the candidate for the
> extreme anti-working class party pretending to be a champion of the
> working class; fake folksiness/volksiness. It's best pulled off by
> actors and actresses, like Reagan or Palin, although Palin doesn't
> deliver her lines as well as Reagan, because he had more practice.
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There's a definite whiff of fascism around Palin and the constituency she
represents - an insular nastiness under that down home neighbourless and
gemutlichtkeit. Reagan was more a product of Hollywood, well connected to
the political and corporate establishment, and more interested in ideas than
his persona suggested. Same base, but feeling more economically and
culturally threatened than under Reagan as the US goes into decline and its
population becomes more diverse.