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Brian Tanguay's avatar

God, this is a heart-breaking account. Most Americans have forgotten the idiocy of the Iraq War, Bush and Cheney strolled off into comfortable retirement, and nobody was held to account for the death, destruction, and failure. It was a giant stride on our road to fascism.

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The more I learn, the more evil I see. Self-serving leaders, corrupted institutions, horrendous outcomes. Fascism, as defined by Mussolini, is the shared governing between Big Industry and elected government. The idea that Fascism has a Red or Blue bias, or a religious bias is absurd within the current context. Both Republicans and Democrats, the self-proclaimed religious and atheists, we see variants of all these identities participate in the coordinated stealing from the national coffers to self-enrich under the guise of precautionary and preemptive action. “Safety” is the disguise these thieves and murderers don most frequently, and the tithe is a never ending inflation that erodes the global standard of living for all those not directly involved; the broken bodies that fight the wars and serve as lab rats for Big War and Big Pharma; and on and on to serve Big Banks/Tech/Media/Food/Energy. We need commerce, business, jobs, trade, but the unfettered growth of these entities has led to an aggregation of public and private power that is unprecedented (and corrupted). If we, the electorate, don’t start demanding better through the ballot box, I fear things will only get worse.

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