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   "Tracey12" wrote in message   
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   > Republicans have a long history of undermining our government. They   
   > even tried to seize power from FDR and later Prescott Bush did business   
   > with his friend Hitler, and was convicted under the trading with the enemy   
   > act. As typical Republicans, the Bush's did business with the Nazis and   
   > didn't care if it resulted in the deaths of American soldiers and millions   
   > of Jews.   
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   > Have you listened to Limbaugh? He frequently speaks fondly of Hitler,   
   > and Sean Hannity's best friend is notorious NeoNazi Hal Turner. Hannity   
   > doesn't even allow Jews on his show, nor does Limbaugh. Not surprising,   
   > radical Islam is right wing, just slightly left of the GOP.   
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   > Prescott Bush, along with other prominent industrialists attempted a   
   > bloody coup in the 1930's to transform America into a fascist state like   
   > Germany and Italy at that time. They approached Marine Corps Maj.-Gen.   
   > Smedley Butler with the proposition of leading a half-million man army of   
   > veterans to defeat FDR's government in 1933 because his policies were   
   > perceived as too progressive. It has already been confirmed that Prescott   
   > Bush and his elitist associates engaged in financial transactions with   
   > Nazi Germany at a time when it was illegal. They conducted business with   
   > the German companies that fueled Hitler's rise to power and the Nazi war   
   > machine. Bush himself was linked to at least one Nazi business,   
   > Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC), that utilized slave labor from   
   > various concentration camps. It has been theorized that the Bush family   
   > fortune was amassed from those Nazi business dealings in the '30s and   
   > '40s. With this information in mind, you can see where George W gets his   
   > inspiration from. We can only hope and pray that America doesn't face the   
   > same fate as 1930s Germany. However, in my opinion, we are well on our way   
   > to repeating history.   
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   > Fascism, Nazism and Conservatism   
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   > European fascism drew on existing anti-modernist conservatism, and on the   
   > conservative reaction to communism and 19th-century socialism.   
   > Conservative thinkers such as historian Oswald Spengler provided much of the   
   > world view (Weltanschauung) of the Nazi movement.   
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   > In Britain, the conservative Daily Mail enthusiastically backed Sir Oswald   
   > Mosley's British Union of Fascists, and part of the Conservative Party   
   > supported closer ties with Nazi Germany.   
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   > When defeat in World War II ideologically and historically discredited   
   > fascism, almost all Western conservatives tried to distance themselves from   
   > it. Nevertheless, many post-war Western conservatives continued to admire the   
   > Franco regime in Spain, clearly conservative but also fascist in origin. With   
   > the end of the Franco regime and Portugal's Estado Novo in the 1970s, the   
   > relationship between conservatism and classical European fascism was further   
   > weakened.   
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   > Militarism is perhaps the most striking similarity between Fascism and   
   > contemporary American conservatism. Of course, there are many liberals in   
   > America who support the military and even call for increased military   
   > spending.   
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   > Even so, American liberals are traditionally more skeptical of the military   
   > than American conservatives. It is often said that Neoconservatives, like   
   > Hitler, see the military as a paradigm for problem solving (even in   
   > situations that may render militarism impractical or unethical).   
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   > The relationship of fascism to right-wing ideologies (including some that are   
   > described as neo-fascist) is still an issue for conservatives   
   > and their opponents. Especially in Germany, there is a constant exchange of   
   > ideology and persons, between the influential national-conservative movement,   
   > and self-identified national-socialist groups.   
   > In Italy too, there is no clear line between conservatives, and movements   
   > inspired by the Italian Fascism of the 1920s to 1940s, including the Alleanza   
   > Nazionale which is member of the governing coalition under premier Silvio   
   > Berlusconi. Conservative attitudes to the 20th-century fascist regimes are   
   > still an issue.   
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