pro-statism is what I defined it as, which could be wrong, but i clearly did not point to fascism. I wrote the following:
pro-statist sentiments: support for the military, patriotism, westphalianism, police state, etc.
what, in that list, doesn't jibe with your understanding of them?
shag
At 02:22 PM 5/9/2010, Somebody Somebody wrote:
>Calling them pro-statist probably overstates matters. Nobody's advocating
>for 30's style organic unity of the classes under a charismatic leader, or
>even anything faintly reminiscent of it. Real statists, if anything, might
>be calling *for* death panels. They're basically extreme conservatives of
>the American type - business oriented, anti-tax, and pro-traditional
>institutions (namely the armed component of the state).
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> >From the polling data discussed on this list, and from my own experience
> interacting with tea party types, they tend to be a little too well off
> and self-satisfied to be good proto-fascist material, although I would
> guess such people are an over-represented minority of them. If push came
> to shove, and I doubt it will, maybe you could see them supporting an
> American Petain or Hindenburg, rather than a good-old-boy Mussolini.
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