djplong, I'm not baiting you for an argument with my response. I only want to learn. With that being said, why does the phrase "fascist views" seem to be offensive to you? Why can't I use it while being open minded? I didn't say it was evil or bad as you seem to argue.

Please allow me an attempt and try and play devil's advocate to show a point which I obviously didn't articulate in the previous post.

Why is your first point against me being open minded and saying the phrase fascist views? Fascism today is poorly understood and hidden behind a mask of the the wrongs defeated by a dying breed of American WWII heroes. Fascist is used today to describe a racist, Mussolini. Perhaps people like you and I completely misunderstand the word.

All Mussolini wanted to accomplish was social justice and progress, anti-communism, public works programs, better education. He was a journalist. A war veteran. He opposed the social class form of discrimination. He was a scholar of Plato.

His views stirred a revolution for change. In order to have people working he started the Green Revolution and established new farms by draining marshes. His policies at one time had the backing of the Catholic Church. He was anticommunist. He was on the far right of most political doctrines.

Why would his name invoke, what seemed to me, a negative reaction from you?

When you just glean little bits of information from the links I proposed you listen to, I suppose they would sound wonderful and like a change we all can believe in. But look closer. Take a little more time. Be opened minded and listen to the video clips of the discussion after Obama's election on how the Progressives can learn from the election.

Maybe today's Democratic Progressives are misunderstood like modern fascists. Maybe we all just misunderstand and need someone to show us the right way.

To me, a large number of Democrats seem to be operating under the Progressive Party agenda. Do you see that or am I being blinded?

Is it a coincidence that Obama is in Ohio today, the home state of Dennis Kucinich, an open Progressive?