re: #287 kamala

Orwell said that word will lose their meaning. he was certainly right about the term “fascist”. It’s a word that has been bandied about so much that I doubt many people would recognize a true fascist if it crawled up and bit ‘em in the ass. It’s why people swoon when someone has the gall to describe BHO’s economic policies as “fascist”—it’s because the word has lost its meaning due to the over-use of the term as a pejorative. It’s not unlike the government official who was pilloried in the press for using the term “niggardly” in its proper context; just the alliterative nature of the word sent a certain segment of the population into paroxysms of self-righteous indignation-many of whom were ignorant as to the meaning, let alone the derivation of the term.

For you to keep using the “fascist” term indicates either an ignorance of the nature of the term, or a blatant attempt to get someone to buy into your strawman. It is a weak technique.

There is a vast difference between a government with a history of limited censorship conducting that censorship within the traditional boundaries, and a government that promotes a cultural intellectual purging including book burnings, prosecutions, deportations, etc. So, no, the current German government is not moving toward totalitarianism as you posit.