Ed Tant: 'Bush administration marching America directly into fascism'

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire

Louisiana demagogue Huey Long said in the 1930s that if fascism ever comes to America, it will come wrapped in a red, white and blue package of Americanism. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini called fascism an "illiberal and anti-liberal" rule in which the corporation is king and religion is a tool of the all-powerful state. With the Bush administration's kowtowing to the corporados and genuflecting to the religious right, one doesn't have to look far to see the signs of a police state here in a nation that mouths slogans about freedom, but in reality seems to love freedom only as long as nobody actually uses it.