Say it ain’t so! Here’s an article describing fascism and how our country could be considered fascist. I guess the nation needs to take the F-scale test.
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I wish it weren’t true, but as far as I can see, the neo-conservatives are no better than the Nazi brownshirts in the Weimar Republic days of Germany. The same restrictions on the media, the elimination of civil liberties, and similar economic policies are visible. There is only one point of the fourteen that I don’t see as present, and it appears to be the least significant of them all, especially given the decline in the power of the unions over the last few decades.
I’d agree with you except for Godwin’s Law
I don’t think of the current administration quite as fascists, but I do think they could become them with little trouble. I think America’s allowed it’s nationalism to go way too far and I blame our geography as much as anything for it. If we were more surrounded by similar neighbors (sadly we just don’t respect Canada) things would be different…maybe.
Given their disdain for telling anything remotely resembling the truth, their manipulation of public fear to gain power and maintain control of the government, their completely corrupt way of doing business, the third-world economic policies, and their complete disregard for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as well as basic civil liberties, I would have to argue that the Bush regime is a fascist government. The neo-conservatives blind, irrational and fanatical beliefs also is akin to that of the Brownshirts in the Weimar Republic.