Ray's Thought for the Day - Is the Republcian Party a Fascist Political Party? and Addendum

I have been thinking about this subtopic question today as part of my sun god training.

I have not reached any conclusions though, but I am inclined to think the Repuplican Party, though many fascists account themselves republicans, or vote that way, is not a fascist party. One obvious difference between old timey fascist parties and the republican party, is the fascist parties wanted the state to actually function as more than a dispenser of welfare to the rich. On the other hand, there are some interesting similarities.

Addendum Part

So now that I have thought about this subtopic some more, for sun god training, I have come to the conclusion that the analogy falls into the so what category of useless analogies. Starting with the fact that hardly anyone know anything about fascism in its historical context or its specifics, why bother to compare fascism to anything else. Then there's the common view of fascism which may include historical events associated with fascism, World War II and Hitler and maybe some more generalities all of which are presumed in the common view as very bad, maybe. So to make an analogy, Republican Party - fascist party, would be attempting to solicit an emotional reaction from people who have heard how bad Hitler was, etc.

That's not how a sun god trainee should operate, using so what analogies. The Druids are correct, the Republican Party is the Liar and Glutton Party. The Democratic Party is too, but that other party moderated the glutton aspect. For example, war profiteering was once widely viewed as bad. Now, with the Republican Party having seized state power, war profiteering is good business. Oh well, so what.