re: Madeline Albright: Fascism currently poses its most serious threat since the end of WW2

What a despicable person.

I can't even bring myself to comment beyond that right now.

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Albright's policies look and sound more like fascism than Trump

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Yep. Whatever they accuse their Opposition of...it's what they are guilty of. Think 'Russian collusion' and their "insurance policy" to oust Trump/Trump Nation from power.

Fascism has been and always will be a LEFT WING philosophy no matter how much the left refuses to acknowledge it.

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The father of fascism is a man named Giovanni Gentile. 

Born in 1875, Gentile was one of the world’s most influential philosophers in the first half of the 20th century. Inspired by his mentor Karl Marx, Gentile believed that the state should resemble a family. This remains a common leftist theme. During the 1984 convention of the Democratic Party, the governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, likened America to “an extended family where, through the government, people all take care of each other.” Thirty years later, the slogan of the 2012 Democratic Party convention was, “The government is the only thing we all belong to.” 

Gentile considered fascism to be the most workable form of socialism. “Fascism mobilizes people by appealing to their national identity as well as their class,” explains D’Souza. “Fascists are socialists with a national identity.” 

Gentile also believed all private action should be oriented to serve society, with no distinction between private interest and public interest. He considered the state to be the administrative arm of society, so society and all its members were to submit to the state in everything.  

Italian fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, simply paraphrased Gentile when he wrote in his Dottrina del Fascismo, one of the doctrinal statements of early fascism, “All is in the state and nothing human exists or has value outside the state.” 

Just like Gentile, Democratic progressives champion a centralized state, which explains the recent expansion of state control in the private sectors of healthcare, banking, education and energy. “Leftists can’t acknowledge their man, Gentile, because that would undermine their attempt to bind conservatism to fascism,” 

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I find it a bit disingenuous of the New York Times that they allow her to write an opinion piece while not making the readers aware of the fact that she has a partisan book coming out about this next week.

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Both the on-line and hardcopy versions have this paragraph:

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Madeleine Albright, the author of “Fascism: A Warning,” served as United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001.

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It's at the bottom of the on-line version and on this first part of the hardcopy.

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Weak people like yourself cling to collectives because they lack the strength to be individuals.

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Wait a second, aren't you a progressive? Progressive ideology is nothing but a fight against individuality.

Bond,
You are a perfect example of someone who clings to his political party. Every word that comes out of your mouth can basically be equated to "I hate democrats".

You are no beacon of individualism...quite the contrary.

It starts local: proud to be from NOLA...I love LA culture. On the national scale I believe in the ideal of America even while acknowledging that we have rarely if ever lived up to it. American leadership in science and certain arts is something I take extraordinary pride in. Particularly in how our technology innovations transformed the world. I am proud to be part of that tradition.
I continue to be proud of our military achievements but will never be so foolish as to equate service with heroism as synonyms.

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It's at the bottom of the on-line version and on this first part of the hardcopy.

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I saw that & am going to double down. The NYT did not say that her newest, partisan book is coming out this week. She wrote the piece & it's strategically phrased as to how it comes across.

In a recent Albright interview promoting her book, her comments were not geared toward the problems w/ fascism, they were designed to continue the misleading of the populace by tying fascism exclusively to anti-Democrat Party factions.

She calls Trump "the most anti-democratic leader" she knows. But that's a lie. It's already been shown that Clinton & the DNC rigged their primary.

Then read what she says about Trump portraying the US as a perpetual victim. Then be objective and make the correlation. The Democrat Party uses the same tactics in how they deal w/ the people of the US. However, her assessment on Trump is at least debateable. It can't be debated in how the Democrat Party repeatedly calls their constituents "victims."

I could go on, but there's no point. I have to go cut the grass. But be objective & note the holes, hypocrisy, &/or double standards in her arguments from her recent NPR interview.

Albright is a partisan hack first. It's a shame that almost everyone else is too.

NPR Interview

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To guard against a recurrence, the survivors of war and the Holocaust joined forces to create the United Nations, forge global financial institutions and — through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — strengthen the rule of law. 

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Lol...kiss my arse, you globalist bitch. The U.N. and global financial institutions were set up by the international bankers to gain control of the world governments and finances. Sounds like you are a commie/socialist/fascist or whatever other ism you want to make up.