McCain Fascist? Reaction

Some comments have rolled in to me about my post the other day.

From VM :

Advertising has long known that you don't sell products through reason, you skip right past that part of the brain into the reptile mind, the mind of fight or flight, the mind of appetite, of lust, of fear, of hate, of follow-the-leader, of identify-the-us and identify-the-other. The military has known this since after [WWII] when a general surveyed the troops as to who killed, who fired at the enemy, who fired but didn't aim at the enemy, and who wouldn't even fire at the enemy and found that the majority of people would not fire directly at another person, albeit that they were "the enemy" even when they and their comrades were imperiled by that choice. They changed [the "killing machine" training] fundamentally to what it is now, and that is a bypassing of the rational part of the mind "the 'upper' brain" to get to the reptile brain of conditioned response. Now they begin screaming "kill" at the recruits. ... They turn the recruits, the younger and more malleable the better, into killing machines. They undermine the aversion to killing another of the species. ... [T]he minds running the campaigns, the deep strategies, of the ruling class know these things. They aren't trying to talk people into things, they're transmitting memes through a whole show of which the words are only a part. The words are the bullet points for people to repeat. But it's the underlying message, the "meme," that allows people to repeat the bullet points, no matter how absurd they are, as if they are true or mean something. This is how the word liberal became synonymous with
"scumbag"... Until we figure out another way to fight for what we feel is right - justice, a better way of life, egalitarianism, freedom - yes, freedom., our inalienable rights - then we will lose it all. Because the fascists are way ahead in the mind control department.

From JM:

The ostensible social division is between conservative and liberal but the ulterior division is between hard and soft fascists. McCain and Palin don't want to be identified as Nazis so they present themselves as maverick, can do, pipeline imperialists. But Palin's vetting casts her Nazism into high relief. Obama's comment about bitter religious gun toting rurals threw down the gauntlet and the Nazis took the bait claiming victimization by the laptop liberals, thereby risking over exposure. The question is will America prefer Palin's Hitler-ism to Obama's Mussolini-ism? Does mainstream America want to ... ban books, make rape victims pay for rape kits, and wage holy war? That's the question Obama needs to ask.