Doug
^^^^^ CB: Out of the old hills, is there no realistic danger of say ten or twenty Timothy McVeigh-events ? Would a majority Black city government be a potential you know what for the most racist sects ?
As to the federal government and Presidency, if there were ( and I hesitate to say it) another 9/11-type event might the Tea Party win ? I'll drop the term "fascist" because so many here object to its use for several different reasons. But might such a Tea Party in power be more "authoritarian" than the Bush administration ? What might we expect from a Palin administration ?
This is worse case scenario-talk, but please make the argument that it's totally out of the realm of possibility.
Hey, don't vote for Obama or Democrats because of the notion. However, the radical left I've been part of took it as a point of honor or whatever to counter-demonstrate and make vigorous public struggles against militant white supremacist groups. It was a badge of left authenticity for White radicals, old and new left, to lead these struggles. I don't see how the old CP "trick" of "exaggerating" racism or fascism "to get" people to vote Democrat ( according to LouPro and those who promote his line) is a reason not to continue the left radical tradition of leading confrontation against militant white supremacists.
By the way, as I think about it, the CPUSA has not for many decades claimed there is a _fascist_ threat in the US. The term used is "ultra-right" danger. The warnings about the Reaganite ultra-right ( which includes pulling the Clintonian _Democrats_ to the right) seem fairly accurate looking back over the last 30 years.