Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 03, 2012
December 02, 2012
December 04, 2012
Transcript:
Trff: God willing. It should be over in minutes! Duke: Great. Trff's cronies are back... Trff: Then we take the president and impale him on the spire above the dome of the grand mosque! After that... Duke: Hey! What's going on here? Trff: Uh... nothing. Duke: You're plotting a comeback, aren't you? In my dining room!
@pcshearer the difference between Fascism and communism is the degree of cooperation between government and business. In Fascism business actively abets government goals and works in common in defending national interests, whereas in communism business becomes a branch of the state politic devoting to exporting the revolution to other nations. Both rely on strong central authority figures.
I don’t think either applies to either our current or former executive office, no matter how much they’d LIKE to have or have had that kind of power. Neither is a “strong central authority figure”.