Reply #118: Regarding this sentence

[Uncle Joe]

"Generally the long periods of corporate domination and authoritarianism are counteracted before they reach complete fascism, and we do see some evidence in polls that Bush's most offensive changes are all extremely unpopular."

It seems to me, we take two steps toward fascism and then one step back, that's been the pattern. I believe we're heading in that direction just much slower than Germany or Italy. Privacy is rapidly being evaporated for one reason or another, and it's always a "good" reason but the result is our bodies are gradually becoming properties of the state or corporation, do you want to flip hamburgers, piss in this cup first. Now this may be myth, but Al Gore has joked he had to take is shoes off to fly, the former Vice President! Another analogy he uses is the frog in a pot of water slowly being heated up will not jump out, this in regard to our denial for so long on the issue of global warming, but I believe it applies to our individual rights and privacy as well. We've created super-citizen corporations, money is now viewed as speech, what does that do to the average citizen's voice?