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The US is still on the path to becoming a 'fascist country': sociologist [Frances Fox Piven]
Business Insider ^ | Nov 25, 2022, 12:48 AM | Cheryl Teh

Posted on 12/12/2022 12:40:53 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Only the good die young.


41 posted on 12/12/2022 1:41:31 PM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: jacknhoo

Not debating the textbook definitions, but as I see it...

socialism is intrinsic to any form of govt that controls behavior and the economy beyond what capitalism, for example, normally provides. High taxation, welfare, unionized education, ObamaCare... all socialistic constructs. Fascism wouldn’t eliminate such things, it would instead build on them.

I never bought into the strict transition from socialism to communism. I’ll take liberty with what you described as being a more realistic transition — socialism to fascism — where the underlying socialistic constructs remain.

Socialism is more a feature than a form of government.


42 posted on 12/12/2022 1:43:14 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Red Badger

Must be a misprint: should read “Maoist”.


43 posted on 12/12/2022 1:44:37 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: Freedom56v2

FDR initially admired Mussolini. New Deal was peacetime fascism.


44 posted on 12/12/2022 1:45:38 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerorum delenda sunt.)
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To: Red Badger

The *weekly* meetings @yoyoel and other Twitter censors had with FBI, DHS, etc. constituted a union of state and corporate power to control the flow of information to the citizenry.

“Fascism” has become abused to the point of meaninglessness, but that boys and girls, is a defining hallmark. But, i’m just a stupid HillRod, so wutdoiknow...


45 posted on 12/12/2022 1:48:28 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Red Badger

Scratch becoming ... became with Obama’s muppet Slow Joe.


46 posted on 12/12/2022 2:27:18 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: Red Badger

Nonsense. It’s on the way to being a Marxist, socialist country, and the Marxists and socialists continue to lie.


47 posted on 12/12/2022 2:38:00 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Red Badger

Who is this moron? And why should I give a 💩 what this moron thinks?


48 posted on 12/12/2022 2:58:25 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: Red Badger

fascist says what?


49 posted on 12/12/2022 3:11:37 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Red Badger

"The US is a 'fascist country government.' And the little froggies never noticed the water was hotting up."

Fixed it for them.
50 posted on 12/12/2022 3:33:32 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: PGR88

Nothing says anti-fascist like threatening to nationalize the oil companies, and mandating electric cars.


51 posted on 12/12/2022 4:30:00 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Paladin2

The Commies are always seeing fascists under the bed, when it’s really just their own reflection.
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This whining about Fascists is meant to divert attention from the Communist attempt to destroy our Constitutional Republic. And what’s scary is that there are so many uneducated twits roaming the streets of our country. They’re like the rats following the Pied Piper of Hamelin!


52 posted on 12/12/2022 4:37:02 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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