Media Scared of Bush

It's called a dictatorship with a few remnants of democracy (for instance, the First Amendment, for the moment, still stands, as evidenced by the fact I am able to write and post this, but mostly because I am a nobody blogger and absolutely no threat to the dictatorship--not yet anyway). I'm reading William L. Shirer's classic, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, and believe me the parallels between Hitler and the Bushcons are staggering. "Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote," Shirer told the New York Times in 1969. Consider that Kerry and Bush are supposedly neck-to-neck and you get a sense of what Shirer is talking about. It's too bad Shirer didn't live to see the Rise of the Bushcons. Here's another great Shirer quote: "I don't understand what there is in the American character... that almost automatically, even when we have a liberal President, we support fascist dictatorships or are tolerant towards them." Now we have a Christian Zionist reactionary president and the American people are not only "tolerant" of fascism abroad, many of them enthusiastically support it at home. Like the German people under Hitler, the American people under Bush have no problem with fascism--so long as they can drive their SUVs and watch CSI and Law and Order. [more ]