I see too many things out there that define fascism by reverse engineering nazi Germany. They incorporate things like anti-semitism that are not required for fascism. Mussolini was not a holocaust enthusiast and considered it a waste of time and an odd quirk of Hitler.
Basically, it boils down to a fusion of government power and corporate power. What is forbidden to one is done by the other. Corporations do what government wants. Government protects corporations from competition and gives lucrative contracts.
A classic example is US censorship and domestic spying and surveillance. Legally forbidden to government, but big tech “private companies do it FOR government and share the data and planning. In return, Government protects big tech from competition and litigation.
Mussolini would feel right at home in DC.
Folks,
times some time to listen and think. This is a younger persons view of facism with interesting perspectives.
For another view read this. https://cdn.mises.org/the_vampire_economy_20201022.pdf
Libs are very subject to fascism. They project this and think our support of Trump is nationalism and facism.
What they don’t understand is we are thinkers, it is about MAGA.
A further thought. The libs have so many points of division they have no point of unification. That is their weak point, the point we attack.
The type of govt, his point of nationalism is not the issue. Kingship is a good form of govt if you have a good king. Right now we have a bad “republic” and need a reboot.
Jesus came to divide. Jesus came to unite. How is that possible? The point of division and unification is the same point. Anyone know what it is?
For me, Trump is following a good example. The point of division and unification is MAGA. Keep your eye on the ball.
Looks interesting, but makes the mistake of thinking fascism must always be a national movement. As is true with socialism, fascism can be national or international. What the world faces today is international scale fascism with the globalist leaders, in league with big money and business. WEF+Bankers.
And today’s “Jews” in the equation are people like us who oppose their schemes, and think a republic deriving it’s power from the people’s mandate is the right and moral way.
And like Germany’s Jews, they want to monitor us, track us, impoverish us, make us the scapegoat for everything evil, and eventually wipe us out by some means.
They may be happy with utterly eliminating our ability to work, bank, speak, travel freely, spend money, assemble, own guns, vote etc. That makes shooting you at the edge of town superfluous.
here is a lot of cafeteria fascism out there. Zelinsky cannot be fascist because he is Jewish by descent. On the other hand, abortion and euthanasia are not indicators of US fascism and you are never allowed to compare them to Aktion T4.
A lot of picking and choosing, but it all boils down to a corporate/state partnership that rules with an iron fist that defies challenge.
Modern examples include DC, WEF, EU, Ukraine, and China.
As tired as I am about hearing micro-aggressions, I realize that it’s just WordFare that the Left uses to bully their way through arguments and public perceptions.
Therefore, I propose the use of the word “micro-fascism”, for it’s eminently applicable in schools, businesses, marketing, science and politics alike, just to name a few.
And it’s a perfect description of the relentless, daily abuse we suffer at the hands of the Left/Communists.
I was watching Hitler’s Bodyguard yesterday. The narrator pointed out that the NAZIs were socialists yet Hitler despised the communists, who were also socialists. The narrator explained that it wasn’t because of policy differences that he disliked them. It was because the communists were too willing to defer to Moscow. He wanted a Berlin centric world.
The problem is not fascism or even communism. The real problem is authoritarianism.
On their own both fascism and communism are idealistic economic models that to some degree or another assume that centrally controlled economies are somehow better than less controlled capitalist and entrepreneurial economies.
The glaring weakness of fascism and communism is the aspect of central control that gives an elite few control over vast resources. Inevitably those same people who make economic decisions ‘for the better good’ eventually (or immediately) use their power to suppress opposition and dissent.
Or that power can be used to carry out ethnic repression as we see today in Russia vs. Ukraine, China vs. everyone, and in the West with wokeism vs. white/Christian/conservative people.
This is the risk of allowing too much power to concentrate in too few hands.
And to be clear, what we have in the US anymore resembles textbook dirigisme which is the economic model fundamental to fascism. Dirigisme posits that government will partner with industry and business to make decisions on things like what you drive, where you get your energy, how much water you can use, how big a home you are allowed to have and etc.
Sound familiar?
See FDR.
At the end of the Cold War, Liberalism died. Fascism filled the void.
Analyze what the Democrat Party stands for and how it operates and legislates. Try to discern any ideology other than fascism. There isn’t any. It isn’t as extreme as Nazi Germany YET, for one reason: the Dems don’t want to panic the herd until there are only sheep.