Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
                                                                                                                        —Benito Mussolini

Mussolini also commented on the fasces (a bundle of rods tied around a battle-axe)—[CHOP!!]—an appropriate symbol for fascism, from which, of course, the word "fascism" is derived, because the rods represented corporations and the axe represented the power of government, each supporting the other.

Think about it!

I have a number of friends whom I met in the 1950s and 60s, such as Elmar Lanczos, a Hungarian Jew, who's family (including his father, Cornelius Lanczos, the eminent theoretical physicist, a friend and occasion co-worker with Albert Einstein) swiftly emigrated from Hungary to the United States when, in the late 1930s, they got the drift of what was happening in Germany, and wisely decided it would be a good time to travel "for their health." Well they did, because none of their friends or other family members survived beyond the early 1940s.

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I cannot ascribe devious motives to Barack Obama. I think his heart is in the right place. But—he seems to be painfully naïve, and doesn't seem to really grasp the nature of his Republican adversaries. He strives for consensus and compromise with those who have dug in their heels and refuse to budge a fraction of an inch. I really wish he would familiarize himself with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Those men, too, had their hearts in the right place and they cared for the country and its people, but they knew what was going on and neither of them took any crap off of anyone!

Don Firth

P. S.   In case FDR's quote is too small for you to read, this is what it says:

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than the state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism itself—ownership of a government by an individual, by a group.

Obviously the country has forgotten the factors and events that led to the Great Depression.

And no, GfS, I am not living in the past. But if this country doesn't get its socks pulled up, we'll ALL be living in the past!

(No winks or grins, because the situation ain't funny!).