Quite a few of you have probably seen my anti-Jesusistan rants before. We devote an entire category to it at Reconstitution. But there are people who take offense (or, more accurately, want to take offense) at the term “Jesusistan.” So I like to explain every now and then where the word came from, [...]

THE FOURTEEN CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM PART VII:
OBSESSION WITH NATIONAL SECURITY ESSAY II:
Power Corrupts Bush Absolutely
By Matthew5 and DoctorWho
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end….liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition. ” -Historian Lord Acton.
We [...]

We present another in the series The 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how BushCo uses them.This is updated from the original series that ran on the Coalition for a Republican-Free America -Dusty

PART VII: OBSESSION WITH NATIONAL SECURITY
Essay I: Librarian Takes on Patriot Act: And Wins
By PraetorOne and BibleBelted
Editors’ Notes by Daniel and BibleBelted [...]

PART VI: CONTROLLED MASS MEDIA
“Our Wonderful Corporate Media.”
By PraeterOne and BibleBelted
Warner Brothers Pictures, Morgan Creek, New Regency, Warner Brothers Animation, a partial stake in Savoy Pictures, Little Brown & Co., Bullfinch, Back Bay, Time-Life Books, Oxmoor House, Sunset Books, Warner Books, the Book of the Month Club, Warner/Chappell Music, Atlantic Records, Warner Audio [...]

Continuation of our series on the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how BushCo uses them. The first Essay in this section was incorrectly labeled as Part 4 Sunday. It is of course Part 5. -Dusty
PART V: RAMPANT SEXISM
(Women at Risk: The Dangers and Consenquences of a Christian Republic)
Section 2
So what does this [...]

Part V: Rampant Sexism
(Women at Risk: The Dangers and Consequences of a Christian Republic)
By Donatra, Shakti and Katie
Section 1
“Women whom Nietzsche never had, he consigned to a distinctly inferior status, as did the Nazis, who decreed that their place was in the kitchen and their chief roll in life to beget children for [...]

Another in our series on the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how the Republicans and BushCo in particular use them. -Dusty
PART IV: THE SUPREMACY OF THE MILITARY
Essay 2: The Recruitment of Skinheads, and Nazis
By BibleBelted
And to think there was a time when we thought the Bush Administration only anted to exploit the troops by [...]

This morning we welcome two members of the Coalition for a Republican-free America who are continuing the series on the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how the Republican’s and extreme right use them in America. Our resident historian Uncle Abe is back with us as co-author of this section. -Dusty
PART IV: SUPREMACY OF THE [...]

THE FOURTEEN CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM PART III: IDENTIFICATION OF ENEMIES (Essay 1: The Cultural War Against Gays By SweetPea (Daniel) SECTION 3
Who Suffers? We Do.
The Inevitable Results of Threats and Hate Speech
The verbal attacks continue. Gays and lesbians are compared to everything from rats to Devil worshipers, which makes [...]

Another in our series on the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how BushCo and the extreme right use them. This post was authored by SweetPea, a member of the Coalition for a Republican-Free America
 
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
Part III, Identification of Scapegoats
(Distorted Facts: The Cultural War Against Gays)
by SweetPea
SECTION 2
As [...]

ESSAY II:
RACIAL PROFILING: CODE WORD FOR RACISM
By PraetorOne and Biblebelted
In the 1960s Lyndon B Johnson incurred the wrath of Conservative Southern Democrats by supporting the civil rights movement; specifically the Voting Rights Act. Admittedly, Johnson was a piece of self-centered work, a flawed, even power hungry individual (though a rank amateur when compared to [...]

Part 3 of our continuing series, the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how they apply to the Rethugs and BushCo in particular.
Part III: Identifying Scapegoats
Essay 1 (Distorted Facts: The Cultural War Against Gays )
By Daniel (SweetPea)
SECTION 1
During the 1920s and 1930s the world learned that when sociopathic leaders, such as Adolf Hitler,were [...]

PART 2 DISDAIN FOR THE RECOGNITION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
(Is George W. Bush a Sociopath?)
By PraetorOne (Brandon)
Will someone please explain how George W. Bush can call himself a Christian and still endorse torture as a legitimate tool of American foreign policy? Will someone please tell us how a purported believer in the teachings [...]

Sirens begins a series on the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how they apply to the Rethugs and BushCo specifically. This series has been updated since it originally appeared on the Coalition for a Republican-free America. We would like to thank PraetorOne, Biblebelted, Kelli, Uncle Abe and ALL the writers on that site and [...]