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AZ8theist

(5,459 posts)
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 03:22 PM Oct 2018

The Horrifying thought that keeps coming back to me.....It will be called "Americanism"

Last edited Mon Oct 1, 2018, 03:59 PM - Edit history (1)

Doturd so wants to be just like his hero, Putin, that he (with willing, compromised, and traitorous Republicans) will advance a Fascist Dictatorship to America.
Beware. With a Democratic takeover of the House in 36 days, how soon after could Martial Law be declared?

This has been a long time coming for Republicans.

Excellent article about the underpinnings of what we are witnessing today:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/03/americanism-us-writers-imagine-fascist-future-fiction

This November, vote like your life depends on it....because it does.

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The Horrifying thought that keeps coming back to me.....It will be called "Americanism" (Original Post) AZ8theist Oct 2018 OP
Lazy conspiracy theories always bore me. brooklynite Oct 2018 #1
I still can't believe they think Qanon is a thing. Initech Oct 2018 #5
Same here. But I have a tendency to be bored shitless by them. nt Blue_true Oct 2018 #7
Almost as much as petulant responses. LanternWaste Oct 2018 #8
How about: we stop both? brooklynite Oct 2018 #9
he has a new "hero"... Kim Jong-un - n/t lapfog_1 Oct 2018 #2
martial law geardaddy Oct 2018 #3
sorry, corrected. AZ8theist Oct 2018 #6
No problem. geardaddy Oct 2018 #10
I actually find the article compelling : Anon-C Oct 2018 #4

Initech

(100,068 posts)
5. I still can't believe they think Qanon is a thing.
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 03:36 PM
Oct 2018

Even though most of the world has recognized it as 100% grade a bullshit.

Anon-C

(3,430 posts)
4. I actually find the article compelling :
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 03:28 PM
Oct 2018

In 1944, an article called “American Fascism” appeared in the New York Times, written by then vice president Henry Wallace. “A fascist,” wrote Wallace, “is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.”

Wallace predicted that American fascism would only become “really dangerous” if a “purposeful coalition” arose between crony capitalists, “poisoners of public information” and “the KKK type of demagoguery”.

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