donquixote99
06-16-2015, 01:03 PM
Interesting because it defines it in terms of behavior, not of doctrine, which tends to be in large part faked-up and inconsistent.
"...a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and by compensatory cultures 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 redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
Robert O. Paxton. Quoted in Christopher Hedges, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, p. 10.
The quote of course goes in this topic because Hedges' big point is that the dominionist Christians are fascists.
"...a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and by compensatory cultures 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 redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
Robert O. Paxton. Quoted in Christopher Hedges, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, p. 10.
The quote of course goes in this topic because Hedges' big point is that the dominionist Christians are fascists.