Re: Unanswered Questions

Rat & Swan wrote:
> Jonathan Ball wrote:
>    <snip>
> > if the United States
> > were really, "quite literally", a fascist state, she would be sitting in
> > a concentration camp right this minute, or she would be dead.
>    Ah, Jonnie, you ignore that fact that fascist states don't start
>    out (or, actually, even end up) as absolute.  The first
>    concentration camps in Germany, like Dachau, were relatively
>    mild and a good number of "suspect" people were eventually
>    released (see, for example, Kurt Ludecke's description of his
>    own escape in his _I Knew Hitler_ c. 1937).  The fascist state
>    in Germany did not even begin with a majority of supporters
>    of the Nazi Party in the legislature -- even after the Communists
>    were removed.  For several years, people were still saying they
>    could control or ignore the Nazis, that it was all a temporary
>    thing, and that "good" people didn't have to worry.  Fascist
>    controls evolve slowly, as they are doing in our own country
>    (the U.S.) today.  You don't get death squads all at once.
>     Rat

Seems to be a little confusion here.  A fascist is one where the
government controls the use of private property, the talk here is about
NAZI government policies.  For example, if the government could tell you
what color to paint your house or how many bathrooms to have for your
employees, that would be a fascist government.