Neoconservative: 15-letter word for fascist
"Neoconservative is a 15-letter word for fascist" is one of my favorite one-liners. Since the radical right wing can dish it out but not take it, nearly always some closet neocon will react like a stuck pig, and say that since they don't have gas chambers like the Nazis, they shouldn't be called fascists. Well, the word fascist is not synonymous with the Nazis of Germany.
There are many reasons why the political behavior of the neocons is like that of the fascists. Here I will mention only one -- the merger of corporate and government power. Note how the neocons in the White House like to "privatize" everything.
Here are some quotes that we should all remember -- they are especially apropos today.
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Fascist Dictator of Italy
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power. "
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt - on the threat to democracy by corporate power
And finally, from a Republican general who became President:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell speech, 1961