The race for Congressperson, CP for Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District today features a real fight against fascism that Keith Ellison, the Democratic candidate is waging, and that as the Second World War documentary would say is "why we fight." Fascism is just the right term, therefore neo cons, lighten up, as the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language defines fascism as "extreme right wing, totalitarian nationalism similar to that of Italy's. The key word is "similar," not identical or otherwise Francisco Franco couldn't be counted as fascist. This is most absolutely the case as that is what this country has under the current dictatorship of the rich white man headed up by a dictator who has already said he wouldn't mind having "a dictatorship" as long as he was the dictator, called the US Constitution "a scrap of paper," and knocked out every last bit of check on his power pushing this country back to where England was before Magna Carta back before that crucial step in 1215. Ellison, being a firm believer in democracy and the checks and balances of our founding fathers, has come out for impeachment of our W, our current chief fascist. Both Ellison's viable opponents, and this leaves out a Green candidate, who hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell of winning, the candidate of the GOP, the official fascist party of the USA and the "Independence" candidate who brags about being a TV producer for Fox fiction, which glories in as Winston Churchill would call it, "creativity with the facts," to the benefit of the loony right/far right neo con jobs refuse to take any meaningful stand against the fascism of the current US adminstration, which has to start, at a minimum with impeachment or some significant move in that direction such as censureship backed by Russ Feingold, the outstanding and solid progressive senator from Wisconsin. The woman independent candidate has not even said one word about this administration's steady march toward fascism even now that this evil, lying, phony, blaspheming tyrant in the White House has repealed Magna Carta of 1215 and ancient England that he would be almost indistinguishable from Charles I, with his love of the Star Chamber torture routine of someone being guilty until tortured to the point of admitting guilt, who sought to do the same in England, but for the fact that Charles I could speak English. Then the candidate of the official fascist party, who is so worshipped by the local version of Der Sturmer, the GOP Star Tribune, has faked having Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, and others but not that it apparently kept him from engaging in a bit of violence toward his former wife, but other than that he's probably pretty "decent" for a member of the USA's official party. Hey, for a storm trooper for W, he's likely a "a real nice fellow." But not nice enough that his brother agrees as he's already told Ellison.

But people in this district need to realize that as Henry Wallace said in 1942 in Madison Square Garden, "This is a fight between the free world and the slave world." To paraphrase that Frank Capra documentary, "This is fight between the common man and woman and those who would drive them back into slavery." "If we lose this we lose it all." That's what this fight is about! "Keep hope alive," leave the fascists behind. For those those GOP jackasses are throwing all they can at Ellison with fraudulent charges of anti Semitism, soundly refuted by prominent local Jews who met with Ellison. The GOP here is just falling back on the old Joseph McCarthy playbook of going after the opposition using guilt by association, with the GOP in this case charging that just because Ellison associated with a black leader who some suspect of being anti Semitic, and who has at least made anti Semitic comments, then that makes Ellison guilty by association, just as McCarthy would claim about liberals and progressives who simply associated with people suspected of being Communists in his day that those liberals and progressives were based on guilt by association guilty until proven guilty similar to the routine under Charles I in England, where the same "wonderful" sense of "justice" prevailed. The GOP and the Star Tribune, their official newspaper of that party is beating drums for defeating Ellison and backing W's fascism and generally acting as an echo chamber for neo con, fascist lies as well as subtly appealing to Islamaphobia to hurt Ellison, with many among the Christian religion becoming brainwashed into fear and hatred of Moslems, especially black Moslems as once was the case with many white Protestants toward Irish Catholics. What the hell's the difference? If the GOP can't win fair, as usual they can appeal to fear and hatred of those different from those who happen now to be the majority race, color, and religion and rely on the old divide and rule strategy. This is worse than in 1960. At least then, the Republican campaign didn't come out so openly appealing to fear of John F Kennedy''s being an Irish Catholic, not that some wouldn't have loved to.

The folks in Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District can send a message that will be heard, not just around this country, but around this world, that they stand for "the free world" Americans, British, Canadians, and others from most of the rest of this world fought for in that Second World War and which Wallace spoke of in Madison Square Garden in 1942 and against the "slave world" of Walmart and the current fascist, neo con adminstration, and that they stand where they stood in 1960 in solidarity with those who said Jack Kennedy ought not to be denied the presidency simply because he was an Irish Catholic. Irish Catholics or black Moslems, it's still the fight against bigotry. Say no to neo con appeals to bigotry the way the Fifth District did to a subtler kind in 1960, and take a stand for what's right, not what's far right.