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• Friday, February 16, 2007 09:32 AM

  "The Cult of Masculinity" is a large part of Fascism

  I've just begun reading another master work by Chris Hedges called "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. He was on Thom Hartmann's radio show last week talking about the so-called "Christian right". He called them Christofascists and heretics. We must remember this when speaking of these people. They are not Christians. They are hate mongers and war mongers. Because our government is completely controled by corporatists now, it makes a perfect incubator for the breeding of these "larval fascists".

  The Bush administration has continued to feed these growing larvae. Permanent war feeds the "cult of masculinity". War is for men. A weapon makes you viral. Attacking women is seen as just.

  But the really big question is why the main stream media aids and abetts this movement. And why did they start with John Edwards?

  John Edwards and anyone who joins with him will be smeared over and above any of the other Democratic candidates. In David Korten's book "The Great Turning" he states that "No ruling class in 5000 years has delivered on a promise to eliminate poverty or slavery and its equivalents, because to do so would mean the elimination of elite privilege."

  John Edwards speaks of the Two Americas and ending poverty in 30 years.

  A system based on dominance demands violence to keep a class division. And this "authoritarianism" as John Dean calls it or the "dominator power of Empire" as Korten calls it must fight violently back at a campaign that is committing the worst sin of all; The sin of nonconformity. The elite fear the rise of people power in all its wild and glorious embrace of the "maybe" and the "possible". This is a campaign of the possible which is the opposite of despair. The elite need despair and its cousin, rage. They fear that the people are finally pushing back.

  Our only hope is to link arms like the brothers and sisters did in the Civil Rights marches. Link arms, not bear arms.

  —F. Cat
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