7 Ways We Can Fight Back Against the Rising Fascist Threat

[NicholeW.]

This should be good for a discussion ... or an argument.

7 Ways We Can Fight Back Against the Rising Fascist Threat
By Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future. Posted August 13, 2009.

http://www.alternet.org/politics/141929/7_ways_we_can_fight_back_against_the_rising_fascist_threat/

Writing about fascism for an American audience is always a fraught business.

Invariably, a third of the readers will dismiss the topic (and your faithful blogger's basic sanity) out of hand. Either they've got their own definition of fascism, and whatever's going on doesn't seem to fit it; or else they're firm believers in a variant of Godwin's Law, which says (with some justification) that anyone who invokes the F-word is a de facto alarmist of questionable credibility.

[Tammy Hope]

Wait wait...by "fascist" she means the right wingers...?

The right wingers who have exactly ZERO political power right now?

Seems like "stopping" them has come along swimmingly so far.

LOL.

I can see I'd better stay out of this thread - I will leave only one nugget to be kicked around:

Fascism is a "catch all" word for "the bad guys on the other side"
Almost no one who uses it has the faintest inkling what it actually is, or are even familiar with what it's most famous advocate said it was.

[lisagurl]

Yeah, have to admit Laura that I have never read Mussolini. Have you?

The brown shirts are back trying to make Italy pure.

[tekla]

Wait wait...by "fascist" she means the right wingers...?
Not all, but some, if the shoe fits....

The right wingers who have exactly ZERO political power right now?
Nothing is more dangerous than an animal trapped.  And some of those people, hell, I can smell the stench of desperation on them over my TV.  That they would begin to use un-democratic methods to attack a democratic decision, they are getting very close.