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Calling a Spade A Spade
In our critiques of the current Administration and the movement that pushed it into power, we have a tendency to back away from the "F-word" whenver anyone accuses us of being "alarmist" or invokes Goodwin's Law.
We shouldn't.
In a recent sermon from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, Davidson Loehr provides the symptoms and historical context behind the word. It is not just a mud-slinging label, not merely a buzzword or a sound byte. It is an accurate definition, and it behooves us all to understand what the word really means, what it has meant in the past, and what it means for our future.
While the Church's own website, including the transcript of the sermon, is now mysteriously incaccessable,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
berbalang has provided the full text here.
I defy anyone to read the first thirteen points of his description, and continue to rationalize the actions and policies of the group currently holding power in this country as anything but fascism.
We shouldn't.
In a recent sermon from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, Davidson Loehr provides the symptoms and historical context behind the word. It is not just a mud-slinging label, not merely a buzzword or a sound byte. It is an accurate definition, and it behooves us all to understand what the word really means, what it has meant in the past, and what it means for our future.
While the Church's own website, including the transcript of the sermon, is now mysteriously incaccessable,
berbalang has provided the full text here.I defy anyone to read the first thirteen points of his description, and continue to rationalize the actions and policies of the group currently holding power in this country as anything but fascism.
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When I consider the scope of this whole thing I'm just awestruck. It's been going on for decades, slowly gaining power, right under our noses, and there's nothing (I believe) that can be done about it now. We're all going to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.