I increasingly have found myself thinking naughty thoughts about the present US administration. I might read another piece on Salon.com, or stumble across the online edition of The Guardian. And while musing on their latest lefty criticism of George W and his cohorts the new F-word flits unbidden into my head. Only to be swiftly dismissed. I mean come on: the US government might be bad (pause for dramatic understatement) but surely-to-god it’s not Fascist? Hitler. Now he was the archetypal fascist. wasn’t he? A genocidal mad-man intent on world domination. George W, by contrast, is a bumbling fool with odd ideas.
But that F-word does seem to persistently recur in my thoughts.
So may I ask you to read this piece, written in 2003 no less, which gives pause for thought? It’s reminds me of stuff by PJ O’Rourke: very funny and unnervingly insightful. The other “F” word.
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