I don't think, under the second definition, that what I have said is irresponsible. What I said was that sending a nation into war without a clear casus belli qualifies. Demanding unbounded power over military might unparalleled in history qualifies. Setting aside civil rights, discussing internment camps and National Identification systems qualify as symptoms. These points are not fantasy. They come from the Bush apparatus.

You are certainly right that there are others far worse in the world. So the fuck what? I would submit that remembering what Facism was and how it came about in Western experience (the rise of Il Duce and Chancellor Shicklgruber) are not exactly ungenuine or ill-informed.

I don't understand your last sentence. What does "..more than thick with kibitzing this fomenting momentum" mean?

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