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Radical Freedom
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Remember, Mussolini rose from the radical press. He advocated for "fact checkers" in government to ensure "accuracy," much as the fascist democrats today demand. The democrats will also claim such a system is "freedom of the press."
'Much as' the democrats today demand, huh? Under Fascist Italy, any newspaper could be confiscated by the government for containing 'inaccurate information' or that might lead to contempt of the government.
There's nothing like that in our country.
Books from ideologies not favored by the Fascist government were banned. Nothing from Marx, nothing about Jews nothing about freemasonry, etc could be distributed. It could be held on only in 'special sections' of library that you had to get a permit to enter.
There's nothing like that in our country.
Letters were routinely opened and checked by State censors. Phone calls were routinely interrrupted by censors if the topic of the conversation was opposed by the Ministry of Popular Culture.
There's nothing like that in our country.
As previously indicated in a fascist country , the bureaucrats micromanage the country.
The bureaucrats know that they can intervene in economic and social issues at anytime when THEY THEY THEY determine that is proper.
It is up to them to decide what degree of social and economic PRIVILEGES will be allowed.
That they have allowed us to certain certain PRIVILEGES is pure luck.
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Wow. A larger font. And yet you still couldn't come even remotely close to the meaning of fascism. Fascism involves dictatorship...which we don't have. Belligerent nationalism...which we don't have. Violent suppression of the press and political opposition....which we don't have. State sanctioned racism....which we don't have. And stringent socioeconomic controls....which we don't have.
But other than failing to meet virtually every defining characteristic of fascism, yeah.....we're a spot on match.
Well dream on.
Read
John T. Flynn's classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America. In some ways, this is the finest and most mature of all his works. It was written in wartime and his points were profoundly cutting. After all, the U.S. was supposedly fighting the total state abroad, but meanwhile at home was drafting people, controlling all prices and wages, rationing all goods, and enforcing a wicked central plan through massive government coercion."
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