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posted this, and I found it so compelling that I decided to post about it myself.

I know that cries of “Fascism” have been leveled, by both sides of the spectrum, for far too long — to the point where the word is a farce, robbed of its actual impact.

That’s dangerous — because a word without meaning loses its ability as a signifier of the very real subject.

Read this essay (with supporting links). It points out the actual, honest-to-goodness political definition of fascism — and the historical stages of a slide towards fascism in otherwise-reasonable countries, along with the accompanying warning signs ignored by the “it couldn’t happen here” folks.

It is very, very worth reading. Fascism is real, kids — it’s not just an invective that you level against political opponents. And it’s only by understanding what it *really* is, and why and how it comes to power, that it can be fought.

Read the stages. Check the links. Ask yourself if you honestly don’t see it reflected in the current world, and then ask yourself what you plan to do about it.

Well, CRAP.

Today, I had to cancel our trip to Seattle this month for Steam-Con. We had the registration and the hotel reservations, but sales in September were lower than I’d have liked, and so I wasn’t really able to finagle the expense of plane tickets.

Crap, crap, crappity crap.

An email has been sent requesting a refund of our registration, and the hotel reservations have been cancelled.

CRAP.

Not the best day I’ve ever had.

The conservative news organization Newsmax published an article on their website yesterday, in which one of their regular columnists, John L. Perry, advocates a military coup to solve “the Obama problem.”

I wish I was kidding.

They have since taken the article down, but other sites grabbed copies of the column, so you can still read the full text.

I knew that the far right would lose their fucking minds when they lost the election. I remember the Clinton years, when they tried to subvert the will of the electorate with impeachment and behaved as if they lived in enemy-occupied territory… and that was during a *great* economy. Add economic instability to the mix, and you’ve got a recipe for assassination and coup attempts.

To the libertarian/economic/intellectual conservatives reading this — this is what happens when you don’t disavow the fringe elements. You people need to start shouting, NOW. You need to email Beck, call Limbaugh on-air, and flood the inboxes and voicemail of conservative media commentators and politicians, voicing your outright objection and horror at this sort of thing. You need take your party back from the nutjobs, before they throw this country into another Civil War.

Because, believe me — that’s what will happen if they carry out their little masturbatory fantasies. If the line is crossed into coup and assassination, there will be reprisals — because you can no longer ‘debate’ with people who are willing to foment a coup. The political divide in this country will become a *real* Culture War — which is exactly what these crazies want.

…and they’ll get it. So stop them now. I’m begging you.