Here, here, my brother! If only he were a Socialist. He is yet another Fascist. The Tea Party anger is real, it's just misdirected. The sad thing is, they are against policies that would benefit the vast majority of them, but they don't know it.

I differ slightly in that I don't think Obama is a fascist. When I say corporatist I mean the merging of state and corporate power; which Mussolini defined as fascism, but I think maybe Obama would have to be more authoritarian and have his own blackshirts to be a fascist. Screaming young people with in Change T-Shirts hardly constitute a paramilitary group (lol).

There are a few definitions of fascist. You are right, corporatist is more accurate because to be a true fascist, there has to be plenty of racism, nationalism, and a paramilitary goon squad. Can you say Palin 2012. Her slogan will be: Fascism For a Whiter America, The Way It Used To Be.

I think where the conservatives are wrong, is that Obama continues to use government (mostly) for the benefit of the wealthiest minority of the population. This is probably the distinction between progressive and conservative. Progressives believe in using the government to benefit the majority, conservatives believe in government for the wealthiest groups (as does Obama).

p.s. Of course, progressive like liberal, has been watered down, at this point... I'm talking about a 'purist' view , haha.

Exactly.

This is how all fascist groups start. The Bourgeoisie co-opts members of the petit bourgeoisie in an attempt to make a mass movement. The beginnings are always Bourgeois. Look at the Fascisti in Italy. They started all over northern Italy as anti-communist militias headed by war-veteran lawyers and doctors with ties to the nobility. They got together and slowly brought lower middle class folks into the fold, to fight proles. The Tea Party is in the first, haute-bourgeois phase. That we think they are mostly Petit-Bourgeois, or lower middle class, is a function of their propaganda and how they are portraying themselves, which shows me that they are self-consciously trying to recruit lower middle class whites, due to the symbols and rhetoric they are using at rallies (symbols and rhetoric they never use at their country clubs)

America's strange in that way though. No one uses the symbols of the elite, except maybe luxury items like Mercedes Benz or Cadillac. Ostensibly we are all the same class, we are all Americans, we are all ready to rally around the flag, when there's a third world country to be bombed. So I don't know I'm siding with the poll...

There are elites that are proud of their wealth and flaunt it, but the Tea Baggers aren't showing us elite symbols, b/c (in their minds) they are just everyday folks being put upon by the Obama administration, the 'liberal' media, and all the groups they routinely demonize.