Reply #198: Sounds like militant authoritarian leftism to me.

[Leopolds Ghost]

I'm a radical populist. Some on the authoritarian left would be prepared to ban any speech that is considered distasteful. Are you prepared to ban the sort of speech George W. Bush is using, since he's doing the same sort of thing Goebbels did, without the same intentions perhaps?

By the way, the "tools and mechanisms" of democracy were enacted in order to protect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms, and other rights the Nazis didn't have to worry about running up against in order to carry out their agenda, since they did not and still don't exist in Europe. Which is one of the reasons people fled Europe.

Pogroms, religious oppression, class warfare -- mostly directed downwards.

I say again, when will you "militant democracy" types push an amendment to the Constitution overturning the first and second amendment, if you believe so strongly that it is necessary to keep fascism from coming to the United States?