14 points of Fascism

[pissedoffprogressive]

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[izzie]

1. I have trouble with pulling in things like this. My son tells me it is

most likely my phone line. Who knows but my guess is what ever it is called if it is an 'isms' at the end and you add a group of zealots any one not with them will be in trouble. I can not think of one thing that is put with an 'ism' at the end that the zealots would not kill to move ahead. The rest of us normal people just have to man the barricades when we see these nut cases start up and we sure have had them all in history.

[uberllama42]

2. Where's "wide-spread use of violence to control the civilian population?"

I think that's the only real difference between the Bush regime and a fascist government. If you look at them in the context of regimes Franco's in Spain or Idi Amin's in Indonesia, their use of violence against the innocent (in a police capacity) is relatively minor.

This is not to say that the other comparisons are invalid; the only acceptable score is zero out of 14. Also, I guess you could argue that Communist regimes make use of similar police violence as part of their set of control methods, which vary quite significantly from those of fascist governments.

[txborah]

4. Idi Amin Dada

was a dictator of Uganda. He died in exile in Saudi Arabia in 2003.

[Tab]

3. "Disdaim"?

Doesn't help to be sloppy.