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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 10/27/2010 : 15:41:38 [Permalink]
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Sara Robinson has a series of articles arguing that America is on the path to a fascist state:
Fascist America: Are We There Yet?
Fascist America II: The Last Turnoff
Fascist America III: Resistance for the Long Haul
In the more recent overview Fascist America: Is This Election the Next Turn? she writes: The Fascist America series of three articles was built out of Robert Paxton's Anatomy of Fascism -- a landmark work of scholarship that lays out that specific conditions and prognosis of fascism as a political form. Paxton defined fascism as:| ...a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion. |
Paxton laid out the five basic lifecycle stages of successful fascist movements. In the first stage, a mature industrial state facing some kind of crisis breeds a new, rural movement that's based on nationalist renewal. This movement invariably rejects reason and glorifies raw emotion, promises to restore lost national pride, co-opts the nation's traditional myths for its own purposes, and insists that the country must be purged of the toxic influence of outsiders and intellectuals who are blamed for their current misery. |
Now, Robb, which political party does that sound exactly like to you? Read on. The signs are all there.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
 Posted - 10/28/2010 : 12:12:51 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by ThorGoLucky
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Time to dust off the old movie "The Wave" and show it to all High-Schoolers.
Obviously, almost a generation missed the important lessons it had to teach. I saw it in school, I wonder if it wasn't mandatory part of the High School curricula at the time.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063669/
Ooo, that looks very interesting.
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I think that german movie is a remake of the 1981 American movie "The Wave" which I was referring to.
Supposedly based on a true story.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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Sharron Angle = dumbass bitch
