Fascism is marked by
nationalism, militarism, sexism, racism, repression of labor, worship of
corporate power, controlled mass media, contempt for intellectuals and
education, religiosity used for political manipulation, rampant cronyism and
corruption, fraudulent elections, obsession with national security and the
destruction of civil liberties — all the flavors Fox News sells to fools all
day, every day.
The elements of fascism I
cited are not a matter of opinion, but of fact. They are the 14 identifying
characteristics of fascism uncovered by Lawrence Britt in his study of fascist
regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia),
and Pinochet (Chile). Britt found these fascist dictatorships all had 14
elements in common.
I've gotten all kinds of ad
hominem insults from Republicans when I've posted this list of fascist
characteristics, but I've never heard a SINGLE ONE of them post any evidence to
dispute it.
And now we have a
president who will try to put across every one of these horrors. He’s about to
prove that the Republican Party is now Fascist Party of the United States of
America.
