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Many posters on this forum agree that the centralization of trade in the WTO and the alliance between multinational corporations and national governments(including ours) is fascism.

Then we have the WTO cheerleaders like Texas_Dawg and MonroeDNA who cannot justify any of the positions they take on trade, but instead choose to name call and villify people who are genuinely interested in understanding the terrible things that are happening to our economy. It turns out that name calling--social humiliation, false accusations, belittling if you will-- is a technique used by fascists to create conditions that foster fascism.

So all you who've been hit by the Texas_Dawg and MonroeDNA juggernaut should be proud. You are standing in defense of the nation. The fascist technique of social humiliation, these fellows are employing help to reinforce that the economic system they support is anti-American and anti-freedom.

For your edification, the seven conditions that foster fascism:

The 7 conditions (Warning signs)
that foster & fuel fascism are:

1. Instability of capitalist relationships or markets (yes this is happening with outsourcing)

2. The existence of considerable declassed social elements
(this is happening with illegal immigration, open borders policy of the "free traders" and our government)

3.The stripping of rights and wealth focused upon a specific segment of the population, specifically the middle class and intellectuals within urban areas as this the group with the means, intelligence and ability to stop fascism if given the opportunity.
(The stripping of wealth from the manufacturing sector, the IT sector and other elemnents of the middle class is happening now)

4. Discontent among the rural lower middle class (clerks, secretaries, white collar labor). Consistent discontent among the general middle and lower middle classes against the oppressing upper-classes (haves vs have-nots).

5. Hate: Pronounced, perpetuated and accepted public disdain of a specific group defined by race, origin, theology or association. (Take a look at Moveon.org and the democratic campaign for the presidency)

6. Greed: The motivator of fascism, which is generally associated with land, space or scarce resources in the possession of those being oppressed.

7. Organized Propaganda:(pay particular attention to the last part of section a)

a) The creation of social mythology that venerates (creates saints of) one element of society while concurrently vilifying (dehumanizing) another element of the population through misinformation, misdirection and the obscuring of factual matter through removal, destruction or social humiliation, (name-calling, false accusations, belittling and threats).

b) The squelching of public debate not agreeing with the popular agenda via slander, libel, threats, theft, destruction, historical revisionism and social humiliation. Journalists in particular are terrorized if they attempt to publish stories contrary to the agenda.