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In reply to the discussion: Get One Thing Clear: NSA Domestic Spy Op Is FASCISM [View all]tomp
(9,512 posts)tell me you don't see the u.s. exalting itself over other nations; tell me you don't see power reduced to a power elite if not an individual (you don't think hitler was responsible to the industrial power elite of germany?); tell me you don't see bush/cheney as autocratic in nature (i mean, even hitler delegated power at some level); tell me you don't see severe class repression through economic (and other) means; as for forcible repression of the opposition one could look at jfk, the black panthers, and occupy as outstanding examples among multitudes.
what's absurd is that anyone doesn't see it. just because it doesn't look like historical precedents doesn't mean it's not the same thing. it means that fascism has learned a thing or two in the meantime--like how to fool people into thinking they're free.