Tornado Alley (PROG)

[F6]

IxCimi -- oh come on, this all goes back to long before 1963 -- I trust you've heard of Smedley Butler? -- and before that, the 'Gilded Age'? -- as your own comment re the 'march on Rome' suggests, this ongoing back-and-forth, this extremely fundamental dialectic of social reality, between the powerful seeking absolute dominion and the rest of us fighting back for a better deal, is seemingly eternal, at least throughout the history of so-called 'Western civilization'

and no, a definitive final assertion and consolidation of overt unrestrained fascism has never yet occurred in this country -- though we are much closer now than we have ever been before, in fact now well into a de facto but not yet overtly asserted and consolidated de jure fascism, and continuing to head precipitously in the wrong direction

by the way -- your idolization, your idealization, of Ron Paul, as if he is some sort of savior figure, is a huge red flag, the behavior of an authoritarian follower in kind not different than the behavior of those who slavishly follow and support dubya&co -- it lays bare a callow approach to all of these things, and is richly ironic given the stated ideology of the Ron Paul movement -- this should give you pause -- . . .