Sarah Palin & the Christian Fascists [Lesser-Known Alaskan Rock Band]

The reality is that Palin’s speech was a piece of ultra-right demagogy delivered to an audience assembled by what is unquestionably the most reactionary party on the face of the planet, committed to the unrelenting defense of wealth and privilege against the interests of the vast majority of the American people and all of humanity. Assembled in the hall were the foulest elements of American society. The lily-white crowd—the number of black delegates had fallen from 150 in 2004 to 36 in 2008, barely 1.5 percent of the total—included a collection of religious fanatics, racists, anti-Semites and militant defenders of torture, militarism and inequality.

Only such a party could even conceive of someone like Sarah Palin as a candidate for vice president. Palin cast herself as the small-town “hockey mom” determined to go clean up Washington, and as an innocent victim of media disparagement. One would never guess that she was a politician with intimate ties to movements best described as theocratic fascist, who has campaigned for the outlawing of abortion and the teaching of creationism.

Palin's speech had the smug, bullying tone of an episode of the O’Reilly Factor on Fox - lashing out at the “cosmopolitans,” the “Hollywood liberals,” those who are concerned about whether detainees get “read their rights.” When Adolf Hitler rallied the angry “volk”—the “common people” in Germany—against the “cosmopolitans”— which in Germany, at that time, took extreme concentration in his attacks on the Jews —it was called fascism. What do you call it in the USA?

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