This is the Tom Hartman Program.

Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, and justice, believers in peace, peace freedom and the American way

Tom Hartman here with you and just a heads up on Saturday night if you happen to

be in New York City, I will be with Scott Carter at the Cherry Lane Theater for Scott's play.

Scott is the executive producer of the Bill Maher show,

Real Time with Bill Maher, and he's a playwright and a brilliant one and he wrote

this play titled Discord, The Gospel According to Thomas Thomas Jefferson Charles Dickens and

Count Leo Tolstoy and for each one of the weekly performances he's invited

somebody to join him at the theater to have a conversation about the play and about the issues raised in the play afterwards.

And that will be me this Saturday,

Saturday night in New York City at the Cherry Lane Theater.

And there's an article about it over at Daily Beast

by Tim Teeman, titled How Scott Carter

spends real time with Bill Maher and Charles Dickens.

And so, you know, if you're interested and if you want to see me in New York,

that's when and how and where to do it would be this Saturday night to what three

nine cents and at the at the Cherry Lane Theater and you can get all the

information like I said the great article about it over at Daily Bees.

I wanted to talk to you about oligarchy and fascism.

In my opinion, oligarchy and fascism are basically two words to describe the same thing.

Fascism is a modern form of oligarchy.

But, you know, in fact, the word was theoretically invented by Mussolini in the 1920s.

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