Early Warning Signs of Fascism: A point by point discussion.

[ch33zw1z]

Wrt OP - if you go down the checklist, there's definitely a political party in the USA that been sliding towards fascism for a good while, and it's not the Dem's

 

[ch33zw1z]

No one is killing Babies bro.

When he says "before a chance to live", he really means before a chance to be born, and for him to hate them

 

[brycejones]

@OILFIELDTRASH what do you consider to be credible sources of information?

 

[zinfamous]

I can think rationally and am very cautious about what or who to believe. I'm definitely not stupid .....

extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

 

[Pohemi]

These are lies that have been repeatedly debunked...
...Why would you believe things that are so easily falsified? Are you really this gullible?
...So in short your accusations of fascist behavior by Democrats are the product of a concerted campaign of lies by conservatives - concerted campaigns of lies like these are hallmarks of fascist regimes, ironically.

Lies that have repeatedly been debunked. Lol. Sorry no amount of propaganda from the leftist media will dissuade me from believing my own eyes...
...Is there no corporation that you guys won't shill for.

Is there no GQP lie that you won't trumpet up and down repeatedly without any evidence or sources? "I saw it with my own eyes" doesn't count, clown.

Right but you just repeated a bunch of easily debunked lies so if it's really a reliable source of information how are you so badly misinformed?

He isn't 'misinformed', per se. He just constantly lies and projects his own depravity, while thinking that he's somehow clever and nobody will notice. You know, a rider in the clown car.

Don't call him out on his lies though, because you'll hurt his widdle feels and then, 'YOU'RE TEH FASCIST!!'.

 

[darkswordsman17]

extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

And shit claims, they require abundance of TP. Sadly even printing them out on it still wouldn't make his claims fit to wipe my ass with let alone bother responding to.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

1. A collective affinity for a strongman as opposed to a constitutional set of principles and a blind, apolitical respect for the Law.
2. A reliance on black propaganda or "hard" propaganda with a plethora of lies to shape public opinion.
3. A denial of class struggle as an imperative that can drive politics, while allowing corporate interests to define policy and the state. Thus, W. Bush had said at some time that America was a society "without classes", turning around to the Carlisle Group in a recorded meeting or rally to call them "My base -- the Haves and Have Mores".
4. Use of the state's institutions to serve the political party and the strongman.
5. Use of force to defeat a political opposition and pursue the will of the strongman.
6. A politics of division, defining an "Other" as an enemy of the state to mobilize a base.

In Chile after the assassination and fall of Salvador Allende, Pinochet became a fascist leader, whose crimes were only less than Hitler's because of the smaller number of people exterminated.

You don't need extermination camps or a Gestapo to define a fascist state, but one should worry about those aspects as a developing possibility.

Oddly, I don't think that Fascism and Communism are disjoint. They both fall under a more general category of Totalitarianism or Authoritarianism, and they can co-exist. An example of that would be the DPRK or North Korea.

After the Korean War, South Korea shed the influences of Imperial Japan -- which occupied Korea even before WWII. North Korea seemed to continue or adopt Japanese Fascism.