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fasttense

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6. Our current US oligarchy is the definition of fascists, pure and simple.

Reply to asjr (Reply #4)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 08:27 AM

Apr 2012

Everyone avoids the word. Even Naomi Cline in her book the Shook Doctrine didn't identify this as fascism. But really when corporations are allowed to pillage and plunder citizens, with full support of the courts and federal government, what else could it be?

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