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Book: American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America
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  1. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups. In our time, when the old "proletarians" are becoming petty bourgeois {and the lumpen are largely excluded from the political scene}, the fascism of tomorrow will find its audience in this new majority.
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  2. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.
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  3. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action's sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.
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  4. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    the Christian Right and radical Islamists, although locked in a holy war, increasingly mirror each other. They share the same obsessions. They do not tolerate other forms of belief or disbelief. They are at war with artistic and cultural expression. They seek to silence the media. They call for the subjugation of women. They promote severe sexual repression, and they seek to express themselves through violence.
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  5. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    Tolerance is a virtue, but tolerance coupled with passivity is a vice.
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  6. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    When facts are treated as if they were opinions, when there is no universal standard by which to determine truth in law, in science, in scholarship, or in the reporting of events of the day, the world becomes a place where lies become true, where people can believe what they want to believe, where there is no possibility of reaching any conclusion not predetermined by those who interpret the official, divinely inspired text."
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  7. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    How much of a conscious goal do you think that is at the upper levels of organizing with, say, somebody like Rod Parsley? I think they're completely conscious of it. The level of manipulation is quite sophisticated. These people understand the medium of television, they understand the despair and brokenness of the people they appeal to, and how to manipulate them both for personal and financial gain. I look at these figures, and I would certainly throw James Dobson in there, or Pat Robertson, as really dark figures.
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  8. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    You know, I come out of the church. I not only grew up in the church but graduated from seminary, and I look at this as a mass movement. I give it very little religious legitimacy, especially the extreme wing of it.
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  9. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    Writing of Ohio megachurch pastor Rod Parsley and his close associate, GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell, he says, "{T}he heart of the Christian religion, all that is good and compassionate within it, has been tossed aside, ruthlessly gouged out and thrown into a heap with all the other inner organs. Only the shell, the form, remains. Christianity is of no use to Parsley, Blackwell and the others. In its name they kill it.
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  10. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    A group trying to curtail the civil rights of gays and lesbians portrays itself, in this rhetorical twist, as victims of an effort to curtail the civil rights of Christians. One
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  11. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    Christian activists in Massachusetts are frequent guests at Christian conferences, where they speak of their persecution by "homosexual radicals." This cultivated sense of persecution-cultivated by those doing the persecuting-allows the Christian Right to promote bigotry and attack any outcry as part of the war against the Christian faith. A
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  12. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    Blind adherence to an absolute leader, especially one who permits violence, hands followers a license to unleash hidden, prohibited lusts and passions usually kept locked within the human heart. It permits followers to kill in the name of God.
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