Reply #12: The differences are less flattering [View All]

[PATRICK]

it shows that the corporate and monied elites don't want to get behind a too-powerful thug. Instead, in our time, a not coincidental rise of gentleman dictators has replaced colonels and pols with members of the club. Thinking, wrongly, as history will also show, that the caste will do it better and not betray its own.

It seems only a facial improvement over the intertwining monarchies of Europe that was supposed to prevent WWI but instead fueled and sparked it. What goes wrong(and wronger among the wrong people) is absolute power
and the suppression of healthy democracy. decadence, brawling, greed fests and galloping unreality in exhilarating disasters out of control. the need to "uncheck" one's power leads to complete ruin, but that is the nature of business, the bigger the badder.

Does one look for the leadership of the common good from people who are champions of greed, wars of conquest, generational privilege, con-men pols? Yet that is the unquestioned source of most historical front men. Does one look for them to be checked by monied interests and elites behind the scenes for the sake of social underpinnings that benefit everyone? Yet the lazy libertarian in all of us harbors some trust in these intellects and "pragmatists" of the world cursed in all our Scriptures for ancient and just cause.

If we are fed fine. If not we grouch and attack inappropriate straw targets unless in overweening hubris some slacker king blunders into the mob's path. King of the hill is a rigged game played by the sorriest lot of humans in gilt clothing. If we are not fed we strike out like someone trying to break the bothersome alarm clock. Along the way the best or at least better people have made progress under these fools or against them. What we have now is a humiliating and possibly fatal backslide into negative human history that should once and for all finish all the false pride and religiosity that sugar coated our own private Disneyland facade.

We die, we starve, we work to death, we are poisoned and robbed. We are little represented and poorly at that in our own government. Call them commies or fascists or Republicans. It is the same mess festering in our house that will kill us all, irrespective for once of race, color, sex or creed. The worst of times demands the efforts of the best of humans. Instead we are dominated by the irrational worst away from saving ourselves or our planet for the sake of selfish delusions.

There is a narrow definition of fascism that comfortably protects history from looking deeper at the larger body of tyranny and greed. What they were and Bush now is, is the most flagrant, darkly comical failure and monstrous abuse of power that exposes all the evil of the world for what is under a bright and shining- and doomed- lie.

Fascists are only embarrassing to the GOP. Secretly they emulate their personae and methods for their own purposes. Simple bullydom. Simple thinking. Simple minds. Simply wrong.