Reply #80: shalom [View All]

[whalerider55]

passionate, but i gotta say i'm not at all comfortable with the Nazi fascism references...

what we are seeing in my opinion has almost nothing to do with political idealogy, and everything to do with the concenration of power and money. although the natural tendency of money is to try to create policies favorable to the the accretion and continued concentration of money, if a liberal idealogy would have done it, the Bush's would've been liberals. This is about what the founding fathers warned us about; money using whatever it takes to achieve its goals- the fundies arer a pawn in this, although they are getting some of their own agenda met, fer sure. This is about divisions; as long as we are told to throw rocks at each other, no one can pay attention to those men the curtain hijacking democracy and turning into their own mint printing press.

Fascistic idealogies, if my understanding of history serves, tend not to last a 1000 years, because once they play the nationalism card, they eventually run out of enemies within the state to blame, and then have to move beyond their own borders to find new enemies.

Kinda like what shrub has done, but not exactly.

there's lots of reasons to hate him, believe me. but i really believe he's a pawn in this as well. as hateful and venal a man as i believe him to be, he's just the puppet, not the puppeteer.

we can do this, folks. but we do need to understand who/what the enemy is.

whalerider55