[GOPJ]

I’ll bet 90%+ members of the of NEA don’t know what ‘fascism’ is. It doesn’t mean ‘group that kills Jews’ - which is how they pretend it is - it’s really an economic system that deals with who owns and controls the means of production. It’s a stupid idea - similar to communism with different ways of dividing up the economic pie.

[DoodleBob]

A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

[Tellurian]

The back of a 100 year old mercury dime shows a bundle of fasces. The tied bundle of sticks and one axe was the tool of Roman magistrates, charged with keeping the peace by way of the sticks or axe. At their discretion, they were to give on-the-spot beatings with the sticks for tolerable infractions, or to deliver grave injury with the axe for intolerable infractions. It must have been a pretty effective way to keep the "peace" seeing as how the symbol has persisted for millenia.

So, fascism, at it's root, is the state-sanctioned power to punish at will. In its practice, it amounts to capricious and unequal administration of justice. Written law isn't of much importance. Kind of like the "our Democracy" that Democrats enjoy heralding at every opportunity, where they flaunt laws they don't like (immigration, financial responsibility, time-for-crime, etc.) and weaponize the judicial system to incapacitate and punish rivals.

[Labyrinthos]

I’ll bet 90%+ members of the of NEA don’t know what ‘fascism’ is.

I'll bet 90% of Freepers don't know what fascism is either.