When I watched his endorsement of Obama, I not only felt better about Powell, but I thought he made a hell of a lot of sense when he described the problems within the GOP. It was refreshing to hear Colin Powell say the GOP has moved too far to the right, and that the RNC’s tolerance for connecting Obama with Islam and terrorists is unacceptable. I’ve been thinking this for a long time. From my point of view, the Republican leadership has been moving toward fascism since the “Republican Revolution” in 1994. Yes, fascism.

Now I’m not just using the term “fascism” to be inflammatory – I’m using it based on what I learned getting my Political Science degree, and from the balanced article on Wikipedia. And obviously I’m not the only one connecting these dots. Many people will remember a PowerPoint presentation that circulated the Internet back in Bush’s first term. It was based largely on an article by Laurence W. Britt. Britt’s article and those by several others have found lots of overlap between current Republican policies and the tenets of fascism. The Project for the Old American Century’s page on the subject does a good job, too.

I won’t reproduce what’s been written on the pages I’ve linked to above, but it’s worth looking at if you’re interested.