Voter ID remains among the most popular policies in America

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I am a moderate, but the behavior of the far right in the past few years has pretty much forced me to move to the left.  The game they are playing, which include forum narci-troll Krazen, seems very unsportsmanlike and destructive to mass society.  It needs to be defeated before we can move forward as a nation.

they are winning, and will eventually win: the West is going neo-fascist.

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I am a moderate, but the behavior of the far right in the past few years has pretty much forced me to move to the left.  The game they are playing, which include forum narci-troll Krazen, seems very unsportsmanlike and destructive to mass society.  It needs to be defeated before we can move forward as a nation.

they are winning, and will eventually win: the West is going neo-fascist.

Nah. If fascism was going to win, it'd be doing so now.

two readings I would refer to you.

Zizek on the Merkel shift in rhetoric to 'multiculturalism has failed':
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/25/european-union-slovenia


Streeck on why the shift to austerity as a response to public debt (which was in turn a 'shift' from high inflation and then to private debt) is a simply another phase of the crisis of the neoliberal state, which cannot last in its current form:

http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2914