Word: fascism
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...19th century, Germany - or perhaps more accurately, Germanic central Europe - was a technological and scientific powerhouse, its universities nurturing geniuses like Einstein, Heisenberg and Schrödinger, whose discoveries changed the way we thought of, well, everything. Then came the carnage of World War I, the rise of fascism and communism, the mass murder of European Jews and the flight of those who could escape it, often to the U.S. All of this contributed to a shift of the center of scientific progress away from Europe. Some aspects of the great European disaster might have been foreseeable...
...Founding Fathers would have been in for a shock had they seen Boston Common on April 15. Over 500 protesters wielding teabags and standards decrying taxes, spending, socialism, and fascism congregated in one of the more than 750 “tea parties” the nation witnessed that day. National estimates for the number of participants range in the hundreds of thousands...
...discordant as simultaneous accusations of communism and fascism are, both were featured in abundance with placards blaring “D.C.: District of Communism” and “Barack Hussein Obama: The New Face of Hitler.” In addition to denouncing the perceived threats of communism and fascism were warnings against one world government and Islamophobic innuendo reminiscent of the 2008 presidential election...
Fear of what? Take your pick. Fear that the U.S. is on a long march to fascism. (As evidence, Beck cited - on April Fools' Day but apparently seriously - the inclusion of fasces on the Mercury dime in 1916.) That fat cats and bureaucratic "bloodsuckers" are plundering your future. That Mexico will collapse and chaos will pour over the border. That America believes too little in God and too much in global warming. That "they" - Big Government, Big Business, Big Media - are against you. Above all, that you, small-town, small-business America - Palinville - have been forgotten. Dismissed. Laughed at. Just...
...Vendetta’ or ‘Watchmen,’ they’re all about power. What do you do when you have great power? Even when you’re thinking about using it for the best of reasons, how close do you come to Fascism when attempting to implement that?”These questions can be extended beyond the world of superheroes. Snyder says the movie’s depth lies in the parallels that can be drawn between its costumed adventurers and real life political figures. “Superhero politics and superpower politics...