STATEMENT: 'The ONLY group acting as fascists in the USA are the Democrats and the left."
RESPONSE: Please explain what the Democrats have done to act as fascists. Use each of these 14 points below:
The 14 characteristics are:
- Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
- Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
- Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
- Supremacy of the Military
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
- Rampant Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.
- Controlled Mass Media
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
- Obsession with National Security
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
- Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
- Corporate Power is Protected
The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
- Labor Power is Suppressed
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed .
- Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
- Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
- Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
- Fraudulent Elections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
Wow, you really are brainwashed, aren't you?
1. A strong sense of Nation is NOT fascist in any sense of the word. That is a twisting of what nationalism is.
2. Freedom from undue governmental influence in the lives of the people is a human right. The Democrats are pushing more and more government into our lives. In addition, they are using the government to silence opposition to this regime, a wholly fascistic and Nazi action.
3. Perfectly describes the 'woke' left.
4. Another twisting of your fucked up ideology. The right wants our military to be supreme against all other militaries, never does a Conservative want the military to rule over the people.
5. Another trait of the left. One just needs to observe their misogyny whenever talking about Republican women.
6. The media in this country is wholly owned by the left. Another left-wing fascist trait.
7. Every nation is obsessed with its national security. Unless you think every nation is a fascist regime.
8. That one doesn't even make sense. Anti-religionist zealots are more prone to fascism than the other way around.
9. Again, democrats benefit the most from Corporate power. Care to try that again?
10. Right now, the lockdowns and suppression of labor is a wholly-owned aspect of the left.
11. This too, is backward. It is the alleged 'intellectuals' that promote and demand utter obedience to their ideology and government power.
12. This one is also a strange one. If you do not punish wrongdoing, you have nothing but chaos. However, the left is big on letting fascists off the hook for the rioting, property damage, hospitalizations, and even the deaths.
13. Have you ever seen the cronyism that goes on in the Democrat party? If you haven't, you turn an intentional blind eye to it.
14. The left just perpetrated the single larges fraudulent election in the history of this country.
So, your made up list of terms and definitions having been destroyed, perhaps you would like to actually join the rest of us in reality.,
