Fascist alert

[fpb]

As my friends know, I do not call everyone who disagrees with me a Fascist. On the other hand, I do believe that Fascism does exist, that it is mortally dangerous (witness the butchery of helpless Christians by Indian Fascists in Orissa recently), and that it must be fought wherever it is met.

I used to regard Chuck Norris as a folkloric, colourful, not very relevant American phenomenon. However, today he endorsed the Ron Paul cult as the forebear of a coming American conservative revolution. Ron Paul, if you remember, is the extremist, isolationist, America-first, supposed constitutional purist, who has long since been outed as a white supremacist and friend of fringe militias and conspiracy theorists. As we say in Italy, tell me who you walk with and I will tell you who you are.

Comments

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

Yikes. I'd always thought Paul was a little bit "off" (the man seems to lack some basic social skills), but indeed it doesn't take long with Google to turn up stuff like this.

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

(I'm not sure whether my prior ignorance says more about me, or the state of US media...)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Many conservative blogs had in fact denounced Paul. Charles JOhnson of Little Green Footballs, who is a rigorous opponent of every kind of Fascism, actually drew the hatred of the Paulists on himself for his repeated criticisms, and ended up making a joke of the whole thing.

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

I guess me, then -- I'd largely stopped reading political blogs out of fatigue after the last election cycle.