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To: JimSEA
Fascism is socialism combined with extreme nationalism.

Not how I'd define it. Socialism in the sense that it has centralized government planning and essentially the elimination of civil rights. But it retains private ownership of property but under total government control. In this regard China is more a fascist state than a communist one, in my opinion. The extreme nationalism is an optional component.

Now it's clear that the mainstream democratic party is a fascist party, they will stomp on our civil rights (witness attacks on the 1st ammendment, 2nd ammendment, etc) and they want to regulate business to the point of total control. Hillary is a fascist.

Trump certainly won't move to have the government take over private business or further control it. And he seems to support the 1st and 2nd amendments strongly. Not so sure on the rest of the constitution. But there is simply no evidence that he'd move to restrict the civil liberties of CITIZENS. Illegals, well, they don't come under our law/civil liberties. I'd say he's certainly not even close to a fascist. Period.

46 posted on 11/25/2015 5:16:13 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (The only fiscally sound thing dems ever did: create a state run media they don't have to pay for)
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To: pepsi_junkie

I take my definition directly from Hermann Goering who was a pretty good authority. Extreme nationalism is an essential element. See Italy’s Mussolini, Argentina’s Peron and Spain’s Franco. We use the term too frequently to describe any authoritarian figure. Putin might be seen as a fascist today.


47 posted on 11/25/2015 5:24:33 PM PST by JimSEA
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