I started writing this in November, but faltered, and started again, and faltered again. I find the entire topic just too important to treat lightly, but too emotionally fraught to resort to the bludgeon of didactic accusation. Telling people "You're evil!" just gets you dismissed
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Anybody who did high school history should know the background of fascism, Mussolini's role in it and where the fasces fits in. Well, I don't know about US schools, but in other Western nations the history of 20th Century totalitarianism is most of 12th grade History.
But yeah. Thanks for that. It needed to be said and you saved me a lot of trouble. ;) I will link to it on my LJ if you don't mind.
We seem to have a pretty good synergy happening when it comes to these issues. Glad we bumped into each other!
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Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
And with that quote from one of history's greatest Fascists you have US WoT foreign policy. Iraq and Osama, anyone?
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The net is weird, unprecedented. I have no recollection now how I tripped upon your LJ. That is true for most of the folks I tag to read. Then again, how much more meaningful is a shared interest -- in, say, science -- than the fact that multiple sets of parents just happened to settle in the same neighborhood and enroll their children in the same school. Yet school connections are considered more legitimate as reasons for connection, while "met on the internet" still earns you a looks askance.
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Did you notice the Phrygian cap on the Senate seal? An interesting inclusion- it was a cap worn by freed slaves, and later used in the 18th and 19th centuries as a symbol of liberty.
Personally, I think that the term 'Islamic Domionionist' is probably a more accurate one, since they are doing the same things that Christian Dominionists are- turning governments into theocracies ruled by clerics and scripture and orders handed down by God.
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And I agree wholeheartedly about "Islamic Dominionist." Sadly, as I noted, it would prove embarrassing for a bunch of Christian Dominionists to use the term without any sense of irony. . . which, again, is why I feel this whole "fascist" kerfuffle exists.
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Re. Luntz, have you read Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George's novel Interface? If not, get a copy, and read it, and remember, this was written in 1994.
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The French, for instance, use this symbol as the Seal of the Republic,
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There is one I neglected, one I meant to include with Lincoln. Note the Memorial armrests, and the fact that they did not have axe heads. This was traditional in the Pomerium, and is found in the US only associated with Presidents. There are similar fasces adorning the Oval Office, our equivalent to the Seat of Power, so it seems. (I guess I lost the link.)
Oh, the English symbol didn't appear, for some reason.
The Unicorn, by the way, represents Scotland.
I've visited Hadrian's wall (what's left of it). Those Scots have an independent streak in them!
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