Reply #109: I've loved Chomsky and I've been dismayed by him . . . on this ...

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he is avoiding the biggest issue in labeling this "fascism" -- i.e., these people have guns!

There're not coming out for discussion and debate and peaceful get-togethers.

They are the last resort of the right wing: VIOLENCE!!

When the right can't win by any other means, they turn to political violence.

This is just another group being used by the right wing elites for that end.


In "Free Market Fantasies", a talk given in 1996, he specifically addressed the cause of the militia movement, and lamented that the left didnt reach out to these people, who had legitimate grievances, although their understanding of the root cause was clearly mis-placed.


Maybe there are big differences between militia groups --

but for decades Morris Dees - Southern Poverty Law Group -- and Ellie Smeal/Feminist Majority --

were pointing to right wing violence moving these groups. They are sexist, racist, and homophobic

"Christians."

Ellie Smeal way back was saying that investigations of these groups link them to violence at

the abortion clinics. And they seemed to be financing these activities with robberies?

Anyone who comes out to support democracy with a gun is giving you a message that is quite counter

to democracy!