Discussions about all other "-ism"s are distractions. Disparaging reckless and irresponsible government programs as one "-ism" vs another sends folks down rabbit holes of how you actually define the "ism" in question.
Hence it seems better to me to not waste your time trying to figure out what ism a bad policy falls under, but simply how it departs from American Exceptionalism.
Every dime has one.
Thanks.
Probably 99% of the people using this term have no idea what it means, except it’s bad….
Wild-eyed leftist professors never like to acknowledge that the fasci were shown as three sticks: Government, corporations and laborers. Fascism was quite intentionally self-promoted as what happens when government controls labor and corporations. It was also the “third way” between communism and capitalism; Blair and especially Clinton plagiarized Mussolini like nuts.
Yes, and all other “isms” are, in varrying degrees,some form of authoritarianism.
BTTT
Fascism, socialism, and communism are all the same ideology. They all involve an all powerful, totalitarian government and no individualism.
Hitler and Stalin were not on opposite sides because their ideologies differed. They were on opposite sides because they both wanted the same thing, and both could not have it.
Bkmk
Thank you for reposting this. I found this link earlier in the week and posted it then. Good for your synopisis for the weekend crowd. This PDF needs to be available for all to study and contrast against American Exceptionalism.
Ever seen pictures of Houdon’s statute of George Washington with the fasces? Pictures of depictions of Fasces on either side of the American flag in the House of Representatives? America was never intended to be a democracy.
Progressives, in how they want/wanted the government to be run (rule by the experts via state designated agencies) were joined in agreement with the Fascists. The Progressives pretend/pretended they were not Fascists, for “at least” their creation of the Fascist state - the administrative state - was done, one by one, with one-off legislative acts approved by elected officials. That method was to use democracy to dispense with democracy, case by case, thereafter.
Notice how the Progressives even turn the term democracy on its head, claiming calls critisizing their Fascist administrative state are “attacks on democracy”. This is what all their slanders saying Trump is a threat to “democracy” are all about.
I guess that's why it worked in Italy for only several weeks to months. Not even long enough time to judge whether it is a good or bad form of government.
Amazingly, calling someone a fascist has been a caustic and effective epithet, almost a curse, even though neither the caller, the receiver, nor anyone in earshot has any clue as to what it means.
But it sure puts people on the defensive.
Next time someone calls me a fascist, I guess I'm gonna say 'thanks'.
Somebody point out where I'm wrong here.
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