Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt

This essay, By Umberto Eco makes interestin reading. Nine years after its publication, we can find so many of these elements in mainstream US culture. Consider how all our war dead in Iraq are considered 'Heros.'

"If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt