The Fast Lane To Fascism: A Review of John Dean's "Conservatives

Hey, Americans!

We are in Hell!

The Fast Lane To Fascism: A Review of John Dean's "Conservatives:

How does the Bush Administration get away with it?' And: 'How come, no matter what scandal or embarrassment or disaster Bush&Co. get enmeshed in, one third of the population still supports them?'

The answers to those oft-expressed questions are complex, to be sure, but with the publication of former White House Counsel John W. Dean's compelling new book 'Conservatives Without Conscience,' we now have more of a framework for understanding what drives the Busheviks and why so many continue to stand behind them.

Dean, whose insider testimony helped bring down President Nixon during the Watergate scandal, is a Goldwater-style conservative Republican. Like so many such 'old-style' conservatives -- believers in small government, maximizing freedom of the individual, balanced budgets, caution in foreign affairs, etc. -- Dean is appalled by the extremists who now run the party, turning all the traditional conservative beliefs upside-down.

These so-called 'conservatives' have taken the country down the slippery slope of extra-Constitutional rule, at the bottom of which, unless the situation changes, lies the reality of fascism.

'It would not take much more misguided authoritarian leadership, or thoughtless following of such leaders, to find ourselves there,' Dean writes.