Poll: Which country is at the greatest risk of succumbing to fascism?

[Scotteq]

Adolf Hitler was mixed on social issues (nationalism on the right, pro-abortion and pro-science/evolution on the left) and he was an economic leftist. Obama is an economic fascist (corporatist/socialist) and social fascist (war hawk), so I'd say the U.S. is already there.

Fascism is also not far right on the nolan chart.

That's because you're applying an economic scale to a social issue.

i.e.: Communism on one side and unfettered free market capitalism on the other. National Socialism as practiced in Germany in the 30's and 40's is a little bit to the right of center on that scale.

A better measure would be anarchy on one side, and totalitarian/authoritarian
on the other. Hitler, Joe Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pinochet, Pol Pot are all waaaaaay over on the Authoritarian side of that scale - irrespective of their economic ideals.


This is basic stuff, guys.

 

[werepossum]

Venezuela.

You know, that's probably the nation that is most in the process of becoming fascist by Infohawk's World War II criteria. Good call.

 

[Infohawk]

Pre-WW2 Germany used to have elections too. And the fact that we have elections is of little consolation when our government continues its power-grabbing, freedom-robbing, bank-fellating policies, regardless of which turd holds the office.

They didn't have hundreds of years of democratic elections... They had just lot a major war in which parts of their territory was taken away. They had inflation that would make today's whiners weep. Not even close to pre-war Germany.

 

[fskimospy]

Where is 'none of the above'?

 

[Munky]

They didn't have hundreds of years of democratic elections... They had just lot a major war in which parts of their territory was taken away. They had inflation that would make today's whiners weep. Not even close to pre-war Germany.

It's thinking like this that turns people blind to what can happen in the US, because it's "different this time." I'm sure a large part of Americans are still happy to preach democracy to the world out of the barrel of a gun, but I have no doubt if George Washington or Thomas Jefferson were to come back to life, they'd be appalled at how our government works today.

 

[Infohawk]

It's thinking like this that turns people blind to what can happen in the US, because it's "different this time." I'm sure a large part of Americans are still happy to preach democracy to the world out of the barrel of a gun, but I have no doubt if George Washington or Thomas Jefferson were to come back to life, they'd be appalled at how our government works today.

Things CAN happen to the US, but there are no factors suggest it WILL happen. Most of the people who think the US is susceptible just resort to alarmist arguments about the TSA or GWB.