This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The murder in College Park, Maryland of Richard Collins III, an African-American student who had recently been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and was days away from his graduation from Bowie State University, underscores the violence of America’s far-right wing.…
“I’m a Leninist,” said Steve Bannon. “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” ((The Daily Beast, Nov. 2013.)
That’s a laudable goal.
Unless of course, your intention is to replace the “establishment” that you’re “crashing” and “destroying” with a neo-Fascist establishment.
We have just had a celebration in Minnesota of the anniversary of a Supreme Court opinion that elevated free speech to the lectern of inviolable ideas like cross burning. Sometimes it escapes me altogether why we fought the Civil War.