Reply #16: A Fascist America [View All]

These poll results remind me of the famous Pastor Martin Niemoller quotation:

"First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me."

And the fact that we have specific groups targeted as scapegoats - Muslim Americans and gay Americans by the radical Republicans - makes this more like Nazism than even Italian fascism.

Forty-four percent is an alarmingly high number. Frankly, I think we are further down this road to totalitarianism than most of us want to believe.