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Thank you for taking the time to remind us of this event---chilling and indeed terrifying when you compare to the events of the current day. So many parallels with today in the way that the GOP is reinventing itself as an American Fascist Organization.

Also, this narrative of the relation of businesses to Italian Fascism is a powerful reminder that business leaders (mostly) hate and would love to "eliminate" (really really eliminate) any socialists, anywhere. Think of the struggle to unionize the textile workers in NC and coal miners in WVA and elsewhere. Corporate murder carried out by thugs. I drove past the a huge abandoned Ford car, truck, and motor plant near Vermillion and Lorain Ohio today. That was one of the Ford plants in the Cleveland area that powered the vibrant economy in the mid twentieth century. Now grass grows in the parking lots, rust lines mark the buildings, and poverty stalks the neighborhoods. So much for the care of corporations for the workers who indeed made them great. Now they can stay "great" by overworking, starving, and neglecting the health of workers around the third world. AMERICAN NEEDS UNIONS. Well, you have some disconnected rants. To the barricades---oops, the postcard writing parties, the GOTV campaigns, etc. If that does not work, barricades may spring up........... Peace and Courage in these perilous times.

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And…today an oligarch took over a principal media outlet. An oligarch who is rather blasé about right wing screeds and antagonist to unions and it seem labor in general.

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He moved his tinny toy factory to Texas to avoid California business regulations.

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Labor regulations principal among them.

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Abbott loves greedy business bastards, screw the people, who depend on social support of any type.

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