It's significant when an enemy agrees with you

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This unpleasant abortionist creep, who can't hold back from connecting opposition to abortion with Fascism, nonetheless agrees with me that it is specifically opposition to abortion that has fuelled the rise of the conservative movement. (History disproves her pathetic claim in that area: Fascism, and Nazism even more, were into free love, sexual

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FP, I'm a little confused by the start of this essay. You're saying Marcotte connects abortion opposition to Fascism. You're also saying she connects abortion opposition to the rise of contemporary political conservatism. You agree with the second, but disagree with the first. Is that right? So basically, Marcotte is in a backhanded sort of way connecting Fascism too closely with modern conservatism?

One of my concerns with Tea Party fanaticism is actually that articulated by a number of my more liberal friends: that it may in fact trigger a slide back into a re-invented fascism.

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I hope you know too much about what Fascism actually was to imagine that. What we are talking about is a kind of right-wing anarchism. Fascism was state-centred. And the moralistic streak that the Tea Partiers still inherit from their Christian roots is altogether alien to the Nietzschean, immoralistic spirit of Fascism. The whole thing is ignorant and dangerous nonsense, not to mention insulting to me personally.

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Yes. But the fully-grown TP beast is obsessed with tax and tax alone - thanks, I think, in no small measure to Murdoch media grooming.

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Insulting to you personally?

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Anti-Abortionist = Fascist. Step outside and repeat that, I didn't hear you too clearly.

(I don't mean you, of course.)