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Flame » in reply to "Neofascist" is also a fetish word designed to obliterate actual meaning or debate.

Who's attacking? Who's debating?

I agree with totally you on this issue. That is, the issue of using government power to discriminate against a particular political group or faction.

It is unconstitutional, unAmerican and immoral, and should be prosecuted under the fullest extent of the law, even if it comes to impeaching a liberal president which I support. (Assuming, of course, he is actually guilty of that crime.)

That doesn't mean I have to change my opinion on neofascist hypernationalist sleazebags. Oh, and don't forget "demagogue."

I don't use those words lightly, I am specifying tactics which they use to legitimize their positions by defining them and themselves in such a way that any dissent or criticism is unpatriotic.

It is precisely that smug self-righteous tendency of the Right to wrap itself in the flag, and by implication, accuse anyone who disagrees with them of treason, that I find most offensive.

I also have every constitutional right to select the adjectives I find appropriate to describe those I find offensive. I don't have the right (or for that matter, the authority) to target their tax status because I don't like them.

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