I hear it tossed out by people to describe everyone they disagree with. They make up motives based on something they read about, or heard for themselves and miscomprehended then exaggerated and extended to characterize and then condemn. It's ridiculous.
I honestly considered Obama more Fascist than Trump because Obama distorted government departments to perform his own wishes. I'd bog down listing the examples that come to mind. To Obama government is everything, while to Trump government is something that needs watching and needs to be restricted. It does too much and is too overlapping and layered.
I associated Fascism with Mussolini so whatever he was is Fascism. Dictatorial. Suppressed opposition. Controlled industry and trade. Sort of like everyone forced to join Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts and CAP, ROTC, all the kids wearing military uniforms. A military structure of society, and everybody forced to think and act along the same lines.
Online in comments you'll always have some smartass tell everyone, no, that is not Fascism, then deliver some refined specific definition they learned in some class and insist that is the only proper definition.
Prager U.
And sure enough, here is our online smartass saying, no, that is not Fascism, this is.
Whereas Prager U produces short succinct informative videos that are helpful and correct, the online expert takes 23 minutes to be childishly contrarian and flatly wrong on every point, starting with his mischaracterization of Prager U and its funding. And it all comes through an islander isolated bizarre Australian accent that sounds perfectly retarded. I could withstand only a few minutes before my ears demanded I shut that shit off.
Whereas Prager U produces short succinct informative videos that are helpful and correct, the online expert takes 23 minutes to be childishly contrarian and flatly wrong on every point, starting with his mischaracterization of Prager U and its funding. And it all comes through an islander isolated bizarre Australian accent that sounds perfectly retarded. I could withstand only a few minutes before my ears demanded I shut that shit off.
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The whole Fascism thing is a lie.
Mussolini had what Lenin had economically and what Ernst Rohm wanted - state capitalism.
What Zippy gave us with GM was national socialism - private ownership, but state direction.
As for coercing people into one mindset, the Commies did that as much as the Krauts or the Eyeties. The only way Fascism (or national socialism) differs is that one nation is supposed to be pre-eminent (although the Russkies always saw themselves as the older, wiser brothers).
YMMV
You really can't have a huge government without it becoming fascistic, in the sense that, since government's "product" is laws, there will inevitably be more and more laws fine tuning the private sector and frankly, fine tuning all private behavior. Our government is huge, ergo it must become and has become fascistic over time. This is the European model. The American model, what made us exceptional, was precisely The Founders' insistence on LIMITED government. Once government slips its bonds fascism is inevitable.
I watched the debate last night among the three GOP candidates for Penna governor.
They were asked a questions about Pre-K schooling. All 3 seemed to agree they had to find a way to fund it! WTF- screw that - let the parents find a way to pay for it.
We are doomed to have bigger and bigger govt when librul initiatives are accepted by Repubs.
AJ, this is why i've said that the encroachment of marxism via big government has always been the cause. To burden the citizen to such a point that government finally steps in as the great savior to save us all from itself by impugning itself upon us. Make government bigger and bigger and bigger. A fat, bloated, obese pig, that is falling on top of all of us in slow motion. This isn't freedom and liberty anymore. Fascism is marxism in a different form. Fascism is of the left. it was never right regardless of what marxists want you to believe.
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