20-09-2009, 10:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 20-09-2009, 10:36 AM by Peter Presland.)
Helen Reyes Wrote:Real fascism is about mobilizing popular discontent and aspirations to serve an elite corporate industrial set of interests. Whether the mobilizers call themselves leftist or rightist is insignificant. The extreme left and the extreme right perform exactly the same in historical practice. The real continuum is a line that runs from no government to total government control, not from right to left.Helen
Thanks for all your observations on this; and especially the above which is spot on IMHO - (The NAZI's - the archetypal Fascists called themselves 'National SOCIALISTS').
Quote:Obama has faked the American public out like a pass in a basketball gameBeautiful analogy! In appearance, demeanour, intelligence.... just about everything the public tend to make their shallow, emotion-driven judgements on, the guy is the near perfect antidote to Bush; He is 'Change they can believe in' and even if they vaguely suspect they've been had, it is just too much of a wrenching, disillusioning let-down to have to admit that practically nothing of substance HAS changed - or is likely to - at all.
Obama was an inspired choice as puppet/mouthpiece by and for exactly the same interests that Bush so loyally served.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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