On 7/26/2015 1:01 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:

Is The GOP Becoming a Party of Fascists?
— July 26, 2015

In a well reasoned article, Salon Magazine addresses the issue as to
whether the GOP party is actually becoming a party of fascists, and what
this means to the future political landscape of America.

Salon sums up the current GOP as follows:

The GOP tends to preach and practice intolerance, xenophobia,
nationalism and anti-democratic values (i.e., voter suppression). In
many ways, the GOP is anti-enlightenment, and embraces passion over
reason. The dangerous denial of climate change and other scientific
facts seems to come out of the corrupt alliance of anti-intellectual
traditionalism and corporate influence (i.e., oil and gas).

Now, the fact of the matter is that fascism died in the mid-20th
century. The GOP are obviously not fascists, but they share a family
resemblance. As stated above, the base have many similar passions —
traditionalism, nationalism, intolerance towards immigrants or
minorities. They react with hostility towards the social progress of
others and largely believe in a ‘survival of the fittest’ ideology.

Giovanni Gentile, the “philosopher of fascism� and ghostwriter for
Mussolini, said of the definition of fascism in the Encyclopedia of
Italiana: “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism
because it is a merger of state and corporate power.� This definition
may very well fit the GOP ideology: a kind of corporate fascism, where
large corporations have the ultimate power; where the politicians spew a
hateful, intolerant ideology based on “traditional� values, on a
platform funded by corporate interests, elected by the people to serve
those very corporate interests; and deny environmental degradation
because it would be unprofitable for the funders to do anything about
it, using the anti-intellectual hostility to convince the people that it
is nothing more than a left-wing conspiracy.

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If the foo ****s...

But fascism? Can the GOP base even spell fascism?


Salon Magazine? Well reasoned?

Salon Magazine is rated as one of the top five liberal media rags
ranking right up there with the "Daily Kos".

You just scolded John for posting a link to a comment by Ben Stein but
you claimed to have refused to look at it, saying that you don't follow
links provided by right-wing whatevers.

Why is ok for you to post unsolicited articles and comments that push
the liberal agenda but it's not ok for John to post something from the
right?