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3:28 PM Thursday, May 14, 2009

Letter to the editor

While I’m one who doesn’t listen to Rush Limbaugh very often, I have to take exception to what his defender said in his letter to the editor (“Limbaugh critics fear his threat to liberalism,” May 4). He lumped socialists, communists and fascists together as liberals.

Fascism was conceived to regenerate a country with a heightened sense of national and ethnic identity. It rejects liberal ideas. Fascism is historically associated with right-wing fanaticism, racism and totalitarianism. Also, it was known to revise conventional history to create a vision of an idealized past and be strongly opposed to immigration in any form.

We only need to look at what Italy did in the 1930s to get a true picture of what fascism is.

It abolished trade unions, curbed freedom of the press, made sweetheart deals with corporations (including the military-industrial complex), and with the corporations formulated economic policies that destroyed workers’ rights.

Fascism is really the exact opposite of socialism. It just happens to be another name Rush can call the Democrats .

Think about it. Which political party does it sound like?

Jim Armstrong

Wilmington

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