Impressive credentials indeed, Strick, but I don't see anything there that makes you an expert on political science or an authority on what is or what is not fascism. I do not consider myself an expert on the subject either, but when it comes to knowing how to dig up information, I did spend a portion of my working life as the news director of a network affiliated radio station. I had to stay on top of the national news, and I was directly responsible for the veracity of the local news. I got pretty good at research, and at distinguishing the real news from the on-going tsunami of BS that some folks wanted to get aired.

But all of this is beside the point. There is considerably more being discussed here than whether or not Dr. Brill actually exists, or if the Fourteen Characteristics are an accurate reflection of the real world. I refer you to the wisdom of Kahless, the clone of the Klingon messiah, which I quoted above. I consider debating this issue and exercise in the picking of nits.

Don Firth