fascism today
Sep. 27th, 2004 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbicideVice President Henry A Wallace's interview from a 1944 NY Time's article. Downright eerie.
An excerpt:
" The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination..."
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An excerpt:
" The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination..."
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Date: 2004-09-28 05:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-28 05:40 am (UTC)They can't give him four more years! They can't! They can't!!
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Date: 2004-09-28 05:51 am (UTC)Vote check:
In my little swing state, I can vouch for the following:
2 family unknown
10 family for kerry
0 family for bush
all friends for kerry, but we're in Minneapolis, so duh. It's the family I'm more excited about.
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Date: 2004-09-28 06:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-28 11:41 pm (UTC)