Rick: Please go on, I’d like to hear more about the continuum and why we should feel that we’ve only gone a “small step” towards fascism. Are you saying that there are steps that Wolf’s article missed and that, unless those steps are taken, we can’t wind up with fascism? Or is it just that they haven’t gone so far? Or is it something else?

As for a disservice to those who have lived under fascism, the consistent message I get from my reading (and from the three Holocaust survivors I have met) is that one of the most effective and important responses to nascent fascism is to call things by their true name rather than ignoring or minimizing what’s happening.

In the past year, my husband and I have read everything we can get our hands on about Bush and his crime family. We have not stopped at reading the liberal/progressive side of issues, we have even, holding our noses, read Coulter….but the fact is, we have been educating ourselves.

And you know what we have found. There are facts that substantiate Fasciam in America.

Several friends of mine refuse to watch the news (heck we don’t watch the news, we want the truth not the spin). They refuse to read papers or books because they cannot DO anything about it. Bull! Of course we can DO something about it. We can talk to others, we can refuse to stand by and watch the country be ruined by conservative-fundimental wackos. We can get involved and vote. We can knock on our neighbors doors and see where they stand and if they are willing to sick their necks out and make changes.

Bush is just the figurehead. His ‘aw shucks” attitude appeals to a lot of people. We Americans need to vote and shop and be around people who want to get this mess out of Washington. We need to clean up our own legislature and elect people who want to preserve the America we had not line their own pockets. We can DO this! Start today.

For starters, the military hates them all right now — do you really think the military would allow them one more day in office?