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to be honest, I feel that calling them Fascists or Nazis is rather ineffective, its the equivelent to them calling us Commies. The odd thing is that, most of them are far too uneducated to even be GOOD Nazis, considering they probably can't even find their penises without tweezers, confuses them with pubic hair. :evilgrin:
Frankly, I feel that it is grossly inaccurate to call them Nazis, simply because, every country in the world that had a form of Fascism put their own flavor on it. Very similar to the way Communism is and was implimented in the different countries it is present in. Stalinist Russia, and Maoist China are not the exact same. Just the way we had Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Franco's Spain, their are some distinct differences in the way that many of these systems were implemented.
As far as the groups present in Lucianne.com, or Freepers, or Protest Warriors, there are several names to call them that is more accurate than Nazis or Brownshirts. Back in the days of the Great Depression, these same people, in this country, would have been called the Silver Shirts, the Black Legion (sort of like the KKK, but with black robes, funded by GM), the Blueshirts, or even the Italian-American Fascisti. All were and are, considering that I find they have been resurrected in a more cowardly form today, Pro Fascists Nativist American groups, this is true of damned near all the Militias present in this country as well. All of these paramilitary groups advocated the same thing, destroying "Communist" influences in this country, including Union-Busting and the killing of many labor leaders.
Their Republican Party leadership is also advocating the exact same thing that their pro Fascist conterparts have always advocated. Their goals include, return to the Gold Standard, unregulated markets, the crushing of Unions, and the destruction of the New Deal entirely. Their propoganda arm, the news media, is very similar to Hearst papers of the past, the jingoistic, Pro Fascist propoganda arm that was owned by one man, and controlled over 70% of all papers back in the first half of the 20th century. Hell we even entered the Spanish American War on false pretenses because of that Man, sound familiar? "Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain!"
As far as the political side of things, the Republican Party seems similar to the American Liberty League of the past. They tried and failed to take over the presidency of the United States before, and I think that they simply put that aside, and tried to influence the country through more indirect means by influencing both parties. They actually failed, by and large, with the Democratic Party, but have succeeded with the Republican party. They have used the same tactics that the Nazis and Fascists have used to gain power in the country, blame our problems on some minority, and divide the working class to gain the votes needed to put them in power. Nixon's famous southern stragedy is a classic example of that.
This is more than just a bunch of crazies with guns threatening Liberals with death, it is more systematic, and far more subtle than either the Nazis or Mussolini's Fascists have ever achieved. They learned that the reason for open Fascism succeeding elsewhere is the lack of democratic institutions in those countries, and the amount of resentment that Americans have in general when they feel their rights are being trampled on. Even now, with all that has happened, they have to tread lightly, or trigger the destruction of what political power they have gained so far. Think about how LITTLE the Republican Party has accomplished, even when having power in all three branches of the Government in their hands. They have difficulty consolidating absolute power to the Executive, like they have already tried, because, unlike in the past, they cannot have a "Night of Long Knives" as the Nazis did, to instill party discipline. We must be even more cautious when Bush is deposed, because they will not give up, and may actually resort to violence, though I doubt it.
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