Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.
“[Fascism is] a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.” ~~ Robert O. Paxton, a professor emeritus at Columbia University, defining fascism in his 2004 book The Anatomy of Fascism
He was writing about American Fascism that reared its ugly head here in the United States between the two World Wars. Unfortunately, it sounds on point for what is happening in this country at this moment. May Omoikane save us all.
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