As We Go Marching by John T. Flynn

Being a certifiable skeptic, not enough to warrant clinical intervention, I decided to check the sources of Mary Starrett's commentary in NewswithViews today http://www.newswithviews.com/Mary/starrett191.htm entitled BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES BROUGHT POLICE STATE TO AMERICA. The result is a book written over 60 years ago. From the first chapter:

I · The Bad Word

FASCISM HAS ATTAINED to the dignity of a cuss word in
America. When we disagree with a man's social or political arguments,
if we cannot reasonably call him a communist, we call him a
fascist. The word itself has little more relation to its original and
precise object than a certain well-beloved American expletive has
to the harmless domestic animal it actually describes. But fascism is
something more than a bad name. If we are to have an eye cocked
for fascism and fascists in this country we had better be sure we
know a fascist when we see one. Of course we will recognize him in
an instant if he will go about in a Bundist uniform or storm
trooper's black shirt. But what if he wears no such uniform, has
never learned to goose step, speaks with no German gutturals or
Italian gestures but in excellent seaboard English and is, in fact,
a member of a patriotic American society or labor union and actually
hates Hitler and Mussolini and wants them trapped, tried,
and strung up—how then will we detect him?

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