We shouldn't just bemoan the symptoms of growing fascism in Mudcat in general terms, we should call the names of the worst offenders:

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. Greg F. has spoken out innumerous times his mind about American supremacy.

2. Disdain for the importance of human rights. Katlaughing surely deserves to be outed as the worst offender here.

3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. Let us not forget how JoeO tries to unify us against innocents who only insist of their right to double or triple posts. How dares he to decide that multiple postings of identical words is not done with artful purpose?

4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism. I could name many here, but to name just one, think of war hero Big Mick who gloats in everything remotely military.

5. Rampant sexism. Peg surely deserves most of the miscredit here.

6. A controlled mass media. MMario tries to control all input to Mudcat tunes since ages. What are his sinister motives in doing so?

7. Obsession with national security. CarolC is obsessed with personal and national security.

8. Religion and ruling elite tied together. Little Hawk, a member of the ruling elite here, is known for his remorceless defense of traditional religion.

9. Power of corporations protected. You can trust Bobert never to fail to post in support of them.

10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated. Sorcha is doing her worst to undermine organised labor by trying whenever possible to post first the result of completely individual searches. By doing this in the way of early capitalist homework at an incredibly cheap wage she prevents others being payed a decent wage for doing hard searches.

11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts. Peter T. is infamous here for his outspoken anti-intellectual attitude. Arts I guess he only knows when paired with 'martial'

12. Obsession with crime and punishment. McGrath of Harlow has often spoken harshly about petty offenders and is a stern advocate of capital punishment.

13. Rampant cronyism and corruption. Isn't it Gareth who has rallied his British cronies to trust him with Mudcat monies? And what happens? Mudcat is still unavailable once per week.

14. Fraudulent erections. Frau-Du-Lent (retranslated from German: woman, you, spring), well, when analysed like this, it should spring to your mind that the prime suspect here must be Wolfgang.

I could have named many more here and several suspects would have merited multiple nominations, but, to cite a song from Christy Moore, I can but name a few. Perhaps next time.

Wolfgang

More seriously, with the possble exception of (3) (with a generous dose of twisted perception) I see nothing in Mudcat which is remotely similar to Fascist tendencies.