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In reply to the discussion: Occupy Wall Street Activist Found Guilty of Assaulting Police Officer [View all]sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)of bankruptcy laws in the mid 70s and Nixon's trip to China, which precipitated the slow death or organized labor. It accelerated with the election of Ronald Reagan and the beginning of financial deregulation. It was unleashed with the collapse of the Soviet Union, NAFTA and Clinton's financial deregulation, legitimized with the illegitimate anointing of GW Bush. It was stamped in stone with the seal of the ruling class after 9-11 and the second bankruptcy reform act under Hillary Clinton. The Iraq war and massive police violence against OWS were just manifestations of the new world order. Washington and Wall Street rule the country and Wall Street rules Washington. Unless there's another political term for it of which I'm unfamiliar, then yes, it is fascism.