Friday, September 30, 2005

Southpaw: America, Facism, and God


Southpaw on Davidson Loehr,the minister of the First UU Church of Austin and his concern of America slipping into fascism and fundamentalism.
Even the suggestion that America has fascist tendencies tends to yield yowls of disbelief and ridicule. Set aside, if you can, thinking of Nazism when talking about facism. There are various degrees and types of an -ism apart from the prototype. Assuming that it can't happen here, that America is not and cannot be a fascist state—it's like assuming that we can't be attacked. Any great damage is possible through a thousand small cuts, each of which we might be oblivious to. Even if you don't accept that America is fascist (which I can't say that I do), it is worth asking "How do we keep it from happening?"

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