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It sucks being right

My last post to this blog was back in 2015. I just kind of quit using it and twitter and just use Facebook as my sole social media. Nobody really reads it and it seems kind of masturbatory. The recent events in our nation however have evoked strong emotions and a desire to blog again. I have decided that Facebook is not really appropriate for my rants and opinions in the current climate. So I reinstall the little blogger app, a nd log into burningbush for the first time in a couple years. Imagine my surprise  when I see that my last post from 2015 accurately predicted what is occurring now. We are witnessing the rise of fascism. It i s the curse always being right.

Donald Trump and the rise of fascism in America.

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All these people are worried about about socialism. "Obama is a socialist, Bernie Sanders is a socialist."  Most people have no idea what socialism even means, they have visions of hammers and sickles and cold war propaganda. While worrying and railing about socialism and and bashing Obama (who has been cleaning up the Republicans mess for the last 8 years, despite their continued obstruction) nationalism and fascism has creeped in. "It can't happen here." The fact that Donald Trump is even being considered the office of the presidency let alone the front runner shows that America has become a fascist country, specifically a fascist oligarchy. Salon and The Week have already published articles asking the question is Donald Trump leading a proto-fascist movement? I say no he's leading an actual fascist movement. All you have to do is switch out the word Jews for illegal immigrants. Benito Mussolini once said that fascism could be better described...