Unmentionable Lessons of the Midterm Aftermath
~As in "..comparing the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to the Enabling Act of 1933."
"...were the voters last month protesting Bush's policies—or were they complaining that he had not made those policies work? If Operation Iraqi Freedom had not been such an unqualified catastrophe, how long would the public have assented to the programs that accompanied the "war on terror": the legalization of torture, the suspension of habeas corpus, the unauthorized surveillance of law-abiding Americans, the unilateral exercise of executive power, and the Bush team's avowed prerogative to "create our own reality"?
...polite discussion of that question does not contain any derivative of the words fascism, propaganda, or dictatorship. God forbid Nazi or Hitler."
[A Fascist Philosopher Helps Us Understand Contemporary Politics by Alan Wolfe (2004)] --from above
article http://www.slate.com/id/2154567/nav/tap1/ by Diane McWhorter
thanks Conscientious
~Excellent.
Posted by Stubbornson at November 29, 2006 06:40 AM