Fascism

[Scout1071]

Merriam-Webster defines fascism as "a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition"<1>. The American Heritage Dictionary instead describes it as "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."<2>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism



Discuss.......

[RBHam]

1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Fascism:

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

[Scout1071]

2. Excellent.

Thanks for sharing.

[sam sarrha]

3. Fascist corporations bought up the publishing companies changed the definations

definitions of words..

here are some links..

http://www.indybay.org/print.php?id=1719333

http://cronus.com/fascism/

fascism is the merging of corporate and state.. in essence business runs the country and the government enforces measures to ensure no one complains about being robbed, screwed and starved.. the poverty they create is considered a vice by the Fascist establishment.

[ewoden]

4. Does this sound familiar?

"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism."
Henry A. Wallace

[Flabbergasted]

5. Interesting

The right always says Hitler was a socialist

[bvar22]

6. Are we there yet?

The Republicans have been In Charge of America for 5 years.
Are we beginning to look like an autocratic Fascist State?

*Demanding Party Loyalty above National Security (Plame Outing and Coverup)

*Military “PURGED” of commanders loyal to the Country and not the Party

*Whitewashes and Cover Ups masquerading as Governmental Investigations

*Secret Prisons where people are "disappeared"

*Dismantling of Individual Protections from Government

*Torture as a National Policy

*Police State Powers Increasing

*One Party Government (No Effective Opposition Party)

*Absurd (OBSCENE) and expanding Military Budgets

*Dismantling of Humanitarian Programs to pay for Military

*Restricting access to information about government

*Restricting access to information contradicting Republican Party ideals (birth control).

*Rewriting (forging) scientific data to support Republican Party ideals

*State Owned Media

*Persecution of Dissent

*HyperNationalism masquerading as Patriotism

*Emerging SMALL Class of POWERFUL ELITES

*Bogus and unverifiable elections

*Private Police and Security Forces not accountable to the Public.

*Republican Party Secret Police to screen at Bush* appearances

*NO Civilian Control and Oversight of Military

*Highest percentage imprisoned in Western World

*Potemkin Villages for the Press and Red Cross (Iraq and Guantanamo)

*Rampant Historical Revisionism

*Privileges and Access for Republican Party Members Only

*Ruling by Executive Order

*Judiciary controlled by Executive Branch

*Legislative Organs controlled by Executive Branch

*Power Consolidated and Concentrated in One Person

*Government Officials WARNING to be careful what we say

*Controlled and Scripted PUBLIC appearances of Republican Party Officials

*Government encouraging citizens to spy on each other

*Secret files on law abiding citizens

*Manufactured phony State Heroes (Tillman, Lynch)

*State Medals awarded by Cronyism and Republican Party Loyalty, not merit

*Governmental business cloaked I secrecy.

*Government “contracts” awarded in secret to Party Members and Cronies

*Odor of Arrogance and Contempt from Republican Party Officials




I am NOT EQUATING the USA today with Stalinist Russia or other One Party Toltarian Fascist States.
I AM saying we are moving in that direction.


Feel free to add to the list or dispute my claims.

[Scout1071]

7. I agree.

I believe we are moving in that direction. Or at least we were. I think the proverbial and much talked about "tide" is actually turning.

[NativeTexan]

8. HELLYEAH, We're there!!!

The trick is trying to find a way OUT of it WITHOUT an internal war...which is how it's been done in the past!

OH, wait....the BALLOT BOX....no...they keep STEALING ELECTIONS...oh well, I'll work on it!

[CrackpotAmerica]

9. Not there yet, but well on the way...

Consider Mussolini before Hitler when grasping the birth and rise of Fascism. Then look at Hitler to understand the horrors of perpetuating Fascism once its implementation is complete.

Pinnacle to this contemporary rebirth of Fascist and Utopian ideology is the effort to merge the corporate realm with the state, and therefore the Media with the pursuers of Fascism.


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