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Sun 9 Nov, 2003 07:02 pm
Does the following fit the present USA Regime?
* Nationalism and super-patriotism with a sense of historic mission.
* Aggressive militarism even to the extent of glorifying war as good for the national or individual spirit.
* Use of violence or threats of violence to impose views on others.
* Authoritarian reliance on a leader or elite not constitutionally responsible to an electorate.
* Cult of personality around a charismatic leader.
* Reaction against the values of Modernism, usually with emotional attacks against both liberalism and communism.
*for the homogeneous masses of common folk (Volkish in German, Populist in the U.S.) to join voluntarily in a heroic mission_often metaphysical and romanticized in character.
* Dehumanization and scapegoating of the enemy_seeing the enemy as an inferior or subhuman force, perhaps involved in a conspiracy that justifies eradicating them.
* The self image of being a superior form of social organization beyond socialism, capitalism and democracy.
* Elements of national socialist ideological roots, for example, ostensible support for the industrial working class or farmers; but ultimately, the forging of an alliance with an elite sector of society.
* Abandonment of any consistent ideology in a drive for state power.
Why, yes..it does...I can't imagine why you might ask?
I am a curious cat
with a few lives left. :wink: