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Sean Faircloth:
Attack of the Theocrats!
Auraboy: "Hang on...are we the militant minority who have no chance of de-establishing Religion or an abusive power hungry majority punishing the poor Christian minority? Make up your mind."[/quote]
This rang a bell, so I did a quick search and presto:
"When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers of Ur-Fascism must also be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."
This is from "14 ways to look at a Blackshirt", a brief rundown of the defining properties of Facist thought. The more of this we see, the more panicked and defensive they are likely becoming.
Permalink Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:48:00 UTC | #353473