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KCTitus-
Great post! "dissertation" I like that. I think I'll go for my "PHD" <snicker, I'm so childish> as a PoliSci major and I won't even have to do a dissertation. Thanks for the compliments.
Regarding fascism, hee heeeee, I looked that one up too. It was going to be one of my talking points. Taco John is the liberal. If anybody is for centralized government, it would be him, not Frazod. A Fascist accusing Frazod of fascism! Hypocrite!
But I dropped the argument. I found a definition similar to yours. But the definition I found included "severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition". I could have made the 'forcible suppression' stick due to liberals' desire for large, oppressive government. The rub was the economic and social regimentation. That seemed to be something that he could grab hold of and use against me, since many liberals use the 'rich get richer, poor get poorer' class arguments. In retrospect, I should have taken a cue from Bill O'Reilly. He consistantly points out that the demogogues I listed are the ones who are encouraging class warfare and keeping their own people down, for their own personal gain. Still, it's a bone of contention and I wanted my case to be able to avoid armor-piercing attacks.
Did you notice that I returned with communism instead of fascism? I didn't want any chinks in the armor. I figured communist fit better and he was less likely to latch on to it.
I'm very impressed by your second point. Great insight! As I was reading Taco's original post, I had a vague sense that I was being bamboozled, but I couldn't put my finger on it. It wasn't until those last two paragraphs that I instictively recoiled. Good call.
LapDog
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