Reply #11: Sadly [View All]

Fascism has been morphed in most peoples minds into something synonymous with Hitler and Nazis. And so when we bring up fascism, the example that is inevitably brought up is that one. But American fascism is uniquely, well, American. See, fascism is a trend that comes out of whatever a given nation's national identity is.

Perhaps those of us screaming fascism are a bit early but since this is a path that will, at some point, reach the point of no return, it is a far better thing to speak of it earlier rather than later.

Fascism is an inhuman manifestation of something very human, something embodied in the idea that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I tend to see fascism as a demonic force searching for human conduits. Only when it finds places ripe for the strident, nationalistic fervor it encourages does it emerge. It only becomes a world issue when the place it finds is a powerful nation. Fascism has reared its head in many small third world countries with few outside of that given country's border giving it much scrutiny.

But it has now come to the world's most powerful country and we will extract our blood sacrifice from the rest of the world. I just hope that in 100 years, it won't be America (instead of Germany) that is used as the ultimate example of the horrors of fascism but will instead be held up as an example of a country that was able to bring itself back from the brink of such a national psychosis.

That there have been other dark times in this nation's history is indisputable but that we are currently in a very dark time is also indisputable.