Reply #231: There is a narrow definition

[PATRICK]

and narrow historical framework in using those terms. No, they don't clearly apply and the two parties are difficult to define anyway except as corporatism and national reform run amok. What is more disturbing is to take more clear trajectories of certain kinds of power movements, elites, thuggery, warrior cults, nationalism, Neo-elitism versus older royalty(who once were exactly the same thing). American No-Nothings and bigots, weak minded cowards suddenly thrust into vengeful authority, the same behavior, same thought, same failures, same results, etc.

Bad guys aren't always super villains but often troubled psyches freed from conventional bounds to appear as opportune geniuses in manipulating power from the peaceful norm or decadent establishment. The ranks identify the leadership in their real character by magnifying flaws and weaknesses and human failings and especially failures. Like seeks like and those out of power seek to accommodate.

People in the middle can be brutalized as the Resistance is is polarized and swung to mere reaction and destruction. These types are a fanatic corrupting force, simple minded and deceptive, contradictory(hard thus to define our talk with or about). Aggressive-fearful-defensive-belligerent-cowardly.

Sparta as a culture formed itself into a model of this behavior which IS alarming. That is the model for the worst to come. Children formed from birth to be like that, but in the end cunning, treacherous cowardice is the hallmark of these fearsome warriors. they were the model of the autocratic Plato's Republic(equally scary when you think about it).

The definitions and appearances and crimes do not match. The type and the acts do. Nazis and fascists are comforting in that in an otherwise capitalist dominant era, they were miserably defeated and monstrous. The morality play was definitive and worked out DESPITE American corporate complicity unpunished and the big problem of RW advance unresolved in the confusion of the red herring Cold War. it was in fact a very false comfort. I have felt the shadow of WWII cast over every year of my life in this nation. Battles meant little compared to the corruption of our government to the present- without a shot being fired. Now we are in for the same sorry patterns again although by and large the people are kept dumber than ever not so much brutalized.